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Travis_King
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You need to practice talking to people. I know very little about Asperger's, but I know a few folks with an ASD, and though I understand that they rarely feel comfortable or easy talking with new people, practice has helped a whole lot and they've learned to internalize that awkwardness and get through that initial encounter.
Talk to people, males, females, older people, everyone with whom you can strike up a conversation. You are almost certainly going to hate it at first, but there's no way else to get better at it.
Even if you just start with light small-talk in elevators, or coffee-shop lines. You have to start somewhere. As you practice, increase the length of the conversations and the depth of the questions, get to know people; probably on a superficial level at first, but moving toward actually learning unique information about people you've just met.
Sometimes you'll flounder, but that's ok. Keep working at it and you'll eventually learn that it's not as scary and awkward as you might think.
Talk to people, males, females, older people, everyone with whom you can strike up a conversation. You are almost certainly going to hate it at first, but there's no way else to get better at it.
Even if you just start with light small-talk in elevators, or coffee-shop lines. You have to start somewhere. As you practice, increase the length of the conversations and the depth of the questions, get to know people; probably on a superficial level at first, but moving toward actually learning unique information about people you've just met.
Sometimes you'll flounder, but that's ok. Keep working at it and you'll eventually learn that it's not as scary and awkward as you might think.
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