identifying social cues

 

        A challenge that I face with autism is that I have a difficult time identifying social cues, this is challenging for me because I have noticed that when it comes down to identifying what a person is feeling it can be very difficult for me to recognize facial expressions and tone of voice. The way that I have over came this challenge was to first understand that everyone much including myself has emotions and could display them in many different ways because of this people will show how they feel through body language whether it would be through a facial expressions or by subtle motions with a persons posture or body language. the next thing that I do is to notice the tone in a persons voice, now normally when I hear a persons tone of voice they could have any number of ways to express any emotion whether it would be anger, joy, annoyance, fear and many others as well. The second thing that I notice is that people will display their emotions through their faces whether it would be a furrowed brow which is associated with anger or a smile that's associated with joy. The last step that I take to recognize a persons social cues is to observe their body language, now for me this is normally the most difficult part in recognizing a persons social cues but the way that I have dealt with this is to notice the way a persons body is positioned towards me and notice their eye contact now normally when people look at me I tend to notice that they are listening to me and when they are not, they tend to not listen. In conclusion I identify a persons social cues by first understanding that a person will display their emotions through a variety of ways including but not limited to their body language they way that they display their emotions on their faces and they way that their eye contact and body position is.