The effect of slow processing speed on social life/skills

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I found out pretty quickly in junior high that I had really crummy processing speed because I could never keep up with the latest news. Now that I'm away from the chronic gossip high school experience, life is a lot simpler.

99% of the the time when talking to someone in person I am either taken way to seriously or misunderstood altogether. Because of that I have little friendships.

IKt only affects my reaction time. But playing videos can help improve that.

My difficulties in this area are primarily with group conversations and with picking up social cues immediately. I usually pick up the social cues after a couple of seconds, but it is often too late to do anything about it. With group conversations, it seems like my response time is often a fraction of a second slower than the other people.

It's a huge part of my social problems.
- I'm slow to figure out what people are saying.
- I'm slow to work out the main point of what's happening socially.
- I'm slow to find words and line them up properly.

By the time I've got it all figured out, things have moved on.