> Anyway if I can figure it out it certainly can be done and there's probably a book about how to do it. It's been done. There are many, many books about it. T

> Anyway if I can figure it out it certainly can be done and there's probably a book about how to do it. It's been done. There are many, many books about it. They're not explicitly about teaching social skills though. They're about a specific subgoal of socialising that is common and deeply felt, which generalises to more or less all of social life. You're not a sociopath, you're autistic. Welcome to the club.