Its almost like neurotypicals just think they know what ‘normal’ body language is, when in actuality they all disagree about almost all of it, each have their own plethora of weird quirks and ideas, and its just that they assume their standard is correct, because they hardly ever consciously, actively think about or analyze body language.
Oh no. I worked so hard to be able to maintain eye contact in conversations (autistic) and now I’m questioning it.
Its almost like neurotypicals just think they know what ‘normal’ body language is, when in actuality they all disagree about almost all of it, each have their own plethora of weird quirks and ideas, and its just that they assume their standard is correct, because they hardly ever consciously, actively think about or analyze body language.