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Let's start with social stuff. I'm fairly socially inhibited. Have a lot of anxiety traits. Hyperreliant on verbal ability. Cause of anxiety: I have trouble with social fluency. I understand social rules implicitly, but get overwhelmed by density of info/second guess a lot.
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This may be partly due to upbringing, as I've been making major improvements in these areas over the last years and don't seem to have base-level issues with functioning. Apart from the lack of socio-emotional latent inhibition. I have to look away from faces when talking, e.g.
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When I'm not anxious, I tend to be hyperextroverted to the point of being a nuisance to people who can't deal with high energy. I'm talkative, intense, very larger than life, sort of effortlessly/unintentionally taking up space. I can turn this off, but it *wants* to be on.
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That's mostly it for explicitly social stuff. With empathy, I am ridiculously sensitive to sensory inputs and information about people in my environment, and constantly modelling people intuitively. I wasn't even aware of this until earlier in my 20s, but I have always done it.
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Autistic people experience hyperempathy, which is often intense and narrow. The whole modeling people and having trouble navigating social interaction due to density might be adaptations and overstimulation, respectively. And becoming super extroverted -- masking?
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Not quite. I'm extroverted just to the point that I either have to be the center of attention or I risk sucking the air out of the room. I can energize people if they *want* to give me attention, and enervate them if they don't. It's very hard to not take up space for me.
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