The autism social rule book.

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Rule #: When your mad at someone, excuse yourself from the situation and give yourself a couple days before you talk to them or reply to them if online. If you reply to them in the mist of emotion then your likely to escalade the situation.

take a moment before you say what you are going to say

try to keep things to the mundane

what seems to be a super intelligent joke to you might seem
utterly weird to a gathering

When you flatline on the operating table and awake 2 days later to doctors telling you what happened, don't start with the reply "Ahh.. cool.. I guess.. new experience, something else done off the ole check list.", it upsets them greatly and makes them wonder if you had brain damage during the experience.

Never be so concerned about being honest or right that you say things that end a relationship that you knw you wanted to keep. Being right once isn't worth a friend.

If you get invited to someone's house frequently, and after a few times you've been to their house they stop offering you any food or drink, it's probably because you haven't been saying ''thank you''.....

nobody wants to hear your opinion, unless it's exactly the same as their opinion. Even then, use extreme caution, as they could just be baiting you into saying something they can use against you.

Be careful when you answer someone's question. Sometimes they don't want an honest answer and they just want to hear what they want to hear or else they will accuse you of bullying or being rude or being snide or whatever.

Do not give too much thought in your actual opinion of an NT acquintance conversation. They dont actually care about what you have to say, there just often looking to break the ice with you or make things less awkward if you happen to be there. In acquintance conversations, heres the general script
1) Greetings
2) How are you
3) Exchange statements/ ask questions
4) Mindless agreeing
5) Close conversation
Try to go by the script and dont overthink it. However I know for aspies, we might have to think quite a bit to just execute this social interactions and seem normal. But in the end, it breaks down to nothing more then mindless chit chat in which you have to show your acquintances that your not snubbing them or your being complete weirdo.

More Rules
1) Never leave valuables in plain sight in your car. Thankfully I learned this one before I get my drivers license. Or else Id probably end up screwed due to dumb carelessness
2) When you go somewhere unsafe, dress down so your less likely to get mugged.
3) If your gonna leave your stuff where theres some risk of getting stolen, place things in less valuable looking objects even if there are no valuables in there. Such as place things in a backpack not a purse looking object. Or I like to use a reusable grocery bag.

Never, EVER ask an expectant mother, "How's the little parasite?" Still terribly embarrassed about that one.

The theme "be yourself" only applies when your nuerotypical, when your on the spectrum, NTs absolutely hate it when your being yourself, so the autistic rule to "be yourself" is really, "dont be yourself, act NT"