I was bullied from age 6 to 14 and never really made any friends, and most of my friends are much older than me. I never really “hung out” with another person my age. So I have a large chunk of social experience completely missing from my life. People assume I have that experience therefore they think me doing something wrong by accident is instead on purpose.
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There’s actually a name for that, environmental autism. I have it too. Wasn’t born autistic but was deprived of social interaction in the developmental phase and so that lack of understanding of social cues was sort of cemented once my brain was done growing. Genie the feral child is probably a severe but good example. No amount of socialization in her adult life could make her converse like a normal human because she didn’t get it in the crucial, developmental stages.
But atleast you have friends so you’re better than a lot of us here honestly.