Why is acting so hard?

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A good number of the threads in this section can be pretty much summed up as: "How do I socialize with NT's?". Someone will reply that we just can't because we're broken, someone else will reply that we don't need to and shouldn't want to because all they talk about is pointless things like TV and cars and their job, and someone else might give some useful solutions.

What I want to know is, if we're so above the NT's who only care about pointless things, can't we just fake it? If you can discuss philosophy, religion, politics etc. wouldn't it be twice as easy to discuss things that the majority of NT's care about and doesn't require too much thought?

try making them a puzzle. works a helluva lot easier

I've been acting all my life and only recently have realised why and tried not to - in the long run faking who you are and acting are just too detrimental to yourself

I am what I am... I dont chage but what I show does. that's not faking it's just my personality so vast and complicated.

"acting" is not difficult for me.
if i was playing a role in a movie or something, then i would be able to pretend to be many different characters.

i can imitate very well. i can recreate subtleties in many accents, and i can
imagine a simple, but stereotypical dialogue for many character types.

if i am on stage, and every one knows i am acting, then it is just an honest portrayal of imitation, rather than an attempt to deceive.

when it comes to private interaction, i never pretend anything.

my ability to imagine some character's stereotypical attributes, and my ability to mimic them, is limited to a narrow set of things that i have privately rehearsed.
i rehearse them for my own entertainment.

i would never try to deceive someone using my limited ability to mimic, because it is not founded on truth, so it is doomed to failure.

whatever. only people that can mold around me are my friends.

Here's what it comes down to: if you're happy being an oddball, that's fine but if you're miserable, then make CHANGES ! !!

Your brain is not carved out of stone you know. You can fake it until you make it.
I had terrible eye contact, but kept working at it. Now I can see some of the techies I work with roll their eyes up at the ceiling while talking. I used to do that, now I don't.
I used to make obscure jokes that people took the wrong way. Now I bite my tongue and don't say what I'm thinking.
I used to mock people for watching popular TV shows, now I just listen to what they say about that drivel.

I'm happier than I've ever been in my life ........

Sounds like good advice; think I'll take that on board.

I can act out emotions pretty convincing, but I can't act outside my personality. If I play a role for a character, I can play it extremely natural as long as I don't step out of personality more than marginally.

Every now and then, someone will misunderstand me and think I believe/like/do something totally wrong/absurd and I'll play along with it passionately, and try making it more and more absurd til' they realize I've been bullshitting them.

Edit: That reminds me... one time when I was 8 or something, my older brother wanted to play a trick on my younger brother, and it required that I would appear very upset and distraught. Once the joke was over, my older brother was pretty alarmed and was asking if I was okay. LOL