Can you sense if somebody likes/dislikes you?

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I honestly can't tell until a person acts like a total a-hole toward me. I know when I don't like others, but I don't go by that so much because I'm wrong just enough. Not often, but there have been a few times I ended up becoming friends with some I didn't at first like, so I try to always hold out the hope that I am wrong when I don't like somebody.

The thing is, when it comes to others not liking me, I just don't care so I don't bother thinking about it.

I'm a likeable guy, and almost never give anyone any reason not to like me, so if someone doesn't, who doesn't even know me well...

What do I care?

I am not so sure NTs or Autistics either one are good at figuring out who does and doesn't like them. If you think someone doesn't like you and tell people that they accuse you of being paranoid. So, what are you supposed to do? Pretend like everyone likes you, regardless. It might be the easiest thing to do unless you want people telling others you are paranoid which isn't too fun.
Just go on, regardless and don't worry about it. If someone doesn't like you, it's their problem, not yours.

However, if someone you know comes up to you and says to you, "so and so said they do not like you," that's completely different. If you have confirmation from an outside source without bringing it up to them first, you are free to worry and fret all you want and try to figure out what to do about it, if anything.

One thing I've recently learnt to do is when someone is reacting badly to my aspieness

I will often be patient and start talking about things in such a manner as they begin to feelguilty for feeling dislike toward me

Its difficult to explain what I say, but I have turned people around with:

** implied moral blackmail**

I tend to have problems understanding if people like me or not.

As if they are just trying to be nice to me out of pity or not.

I have trouble telling whether people like me or not.

I used to be more naive about it and think people liked me when they really didn't, and people would be nice to me to get me to do or say something dumb and then they would turn mean and make fun of me. I got bullied like that a lot in school.

Now I just can't tell whether people like me or not, and I can't use obvious clues like if they are being nice to me because sometimes people are nice but don't really like you, like in what I experienced in grade school.

I wish I could ask everyone I make friends with "do you like me?" because then I would know for sure. I have low self esteem so I tend to believe that people don't like me, unless they do something outrageously obvious like call me their friend or something.

Don't know.....very often. Unless maybe i knew someone for a very long time like 5-20 years then i might have a bit of a hunch.
Otherwise it's a complete mystery.

A lot of people have thought I did not like them when infact i did.

I have a very hard time telling unless people make it obvious, and even then it may not be clear to me. I get people telling me "so and so likes you" and I'm like WTF?

~Kate

When people ask "Who's that fa***t?" in referring to me, I'm guessing they don't like me.

But, more seriously, when I sense reluctance/hesitance and/or avoidant type of behavior when I approach someone or they have an annoyed tone of voice, I assume they probably don't like me that much. If they're happy to see me and quick to greet me (or quick to return a greeting and have a nice tone of voice), I assume they probably like me.

I seem to get the former response more often than the latter in the past, but it's been more neutral to positive lately.

Yeah, I can sense all kinds of things, probably we all can, but I can't tell if someone is reacting to me or to whatever messed them up years before they met me. I'm not sure the information even exists. Even for NTs, I have a strong suspicion that they're kidding themselves about knowing how people feel about them.

no am slow at picking up social cues.

I don't know. I tend to assume neutrality, unless there's strong evidence one way or the other (if they're red in the face, frowning, yelling at me, I tend to think they might not like me). I get more of a feel for it after I've known them quite a while. But I've had some nasty surprises when someone I thought was my friend did me a dirty.

Sometimes it's very obvious. Sometimes it comes as a shock and really hurts me.

No, I cannot. I just go by past experiences, and assume everyone dislikes me.
Buahaha. No not really, but kinda.

I can tell when someone is really mean, but when people like me I can never tell. If they are too nice, I think they are hiding something, and if they are somewhere in between, I don't know what to make of it.

I am hyperaware of this. I can tell within even just getting to know someone if they don't like me...if they are bored, disinterested, or notice that I'm not a conformist and start patronising me in a sing-songy voice. (Before I developed my social skills further, I got the latter one A LOT). As well, I know certain types of personalities who are less likely to like me, so I avoid these kinds of people altogether.