It seems everyone is in on a secret I’ve been excluded from. I don’t know how to understand tone or anything of the sort, I don’t know how I come across. People get frustrated and angry at me. I am unsure how to be normal. What do I do? I have no idea.
I’m a heavily masked autistic, so I probably don’t have great advice.
But, you don’t have a deficiency. There’s nothing wrong with you. You have a hard time understanding a mode of communication that seems to come naturally to other people, but you’re not like, less of a person because of it.
I think the others are right to find people you don’t have to perform around. It doesn’t hurt to pay attention to tone and body language of other people, so you can translate what you mean when you want to, though.
Normal isn’t really real, it’s a societal expectation that everyone performs to, it’s just easier for some people. Normal is overrated anyway.