@AutisticAdam@actuallyautistic
I agree there is "trouble for what others are reading in between the lines because they're making assumptions ..." Those people assume that speakers of the same language also are fluent in nonverbal forms of regional communication.
I was lucky in childhood for guidance in using poetry to practice voice inflection, (thanks to my mother). I was lucky another child told me they recognized a liar by looking at the face, (so I learned to compare faces to words AND reactions while I was young). I was lucky to have so many neighbors from a different culture where girls avert their gaze in order to show respect to parents and elders, (so I seemed to look normal to many of my neighbors). I recognize that I was lucky. I wonder if I was a lucky child or if my consciously observed and learned actions and tonal qualities and speech choices might also be learned by others in the same way as others learn languages or folk dances.
I thought other people had problems. My diagnosis as being on the spectrum explained to me why work was so stressful, I was 53 at the time. I feel lucky to now understand and manage stress.