Social Context

I inhabit this weird space where I often simultaneously feel that I lack certain common aspects of social awareness and yet often pick up on social cues that a lot of people seem to overlook.   It's kind of a bizarre experience.  I think it's just that if I'm going to interact with someone, it's important to me to establish some baseline expectations, preferably without asking questions that could be embarrassing or provoke confrontation.  Whereas some people are less sensitive to those kinds of things so they might not feel the need to exert the same effort on observing other people.  At the same time I think I miss a lot of social nuances because my attention is fine tuned on certain specific things.