Autistic Interpreter

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Do you sometimes feel it would be beneficial if you could find an interpreter to help you decifer and understand the irrantional and bizarre social behaviours of the Neurotypical?

Do you feel it would help you to wade through the often confusing world of their social practices, social norms and conventions?

Personally I am ok. Yes, there are missunderstandings but I am not too bad at dealing with people. I have learned to deal with people. I have not specifically gone out to get jobs in the past because I wanted to deal with people as it was always based on the other aspects of the job, but as nearly all jobs I have had involved either one or the other special interest, I could delve into details and not look out of place (And learn a lot from others whilw in the jobs as well and they did off me).
Communicating with the general public, as long as I masked ok was not an issue, though I am naturally shy without masking. Phone communication is one aspect that I tend to avoid. I can do it and once I start on the phone I am usually fine! As when I open up I talk too much. But the initial phoning I can struggle with. I guess it is a nervous thing? I don't know. I can spend months preparing myself to use the phone before I use it to phone to order something I want or phone a doctor etc. Oh.., Phoning doctors I do struggle with because of those bilingual automated messages! Most of the time I put the phone down as I am a bag of nerves trying to get through them! My Mum has to phone them and press the 1 or 2 etc to get through and then hand me the phone!
If I go in to my doctors to speak to the reception I am ok. Face to face I can do it. (As long as the reception is not too noisy with their TV or radio on as hearing two things at once is not easy).

It was after burnouts and recovering from them I found I needed to avoid people. I never have liked crowds though. If everyone is running from east to west to get a million pounds, I would be heading from west to east and stuff the million pounds just to avoid the crowds!

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Having said all that above there are scinarios that I would need someone there with me and that is to see doctors or in other appointment situations where due to being nurvous or anxious I can easily hit mindblank where I end up talking about totally different subjects. It took me two years of doctors appointments to ask if I was on the autism spectrum (I did not know I needed to be assessed as I expeced a yes or no answer). I had to eventually take my Mum in to ask for me because every time I tried to ask I hit mindblank and had to talk about anoter pre-rehearsed condition (Which was an issue) to free my mind to talk again. I keep needing to go off on tangents to avoid mindblank, so yes, there are situations where I need someone there with me but it is not quite for the same reason as not understanding small talk.

My vocabluary is a bit limited as I keep my words simple so some more complex words I am not sure what they mean. (I don't admit to it usually though! I don't want to embaris myself. And no... Learning the words does not work because unless I use them often I can't hold them in my memory because my mind works more in pictures... So if I see a picture or a sight and I memorize that I am fine, but memorizing words, and even pictures of words don't help! It is why I am hopeless at trying to learn other languagss!)

Yes! People are getting more strange or I'm just not getting any better at understanding others hidden meanings.

It's not you. People (the NT majority) are getting more strange. It was hard enough to get by and understand them in "normal times." Now, we're seeing collective NT madness, which is even more difficult to decipher.

NO, it's not you. NO, you're not crazy or off-base in your assessment of society.

It would be nice to have someone explaining odd happenings that puzzle me, but I don't think the NTs can usually explain themselves anyway. Much more, I'd like to have a Boswell to help others to understand my insights. I expect logic to be pretty obvious, and repetition somewhat insulting, but this is not usually the case.

I just usually avoid people and I find I'm become more socially withdrawn cause I don't want to seem weird to others and don't like being judged anymore.