Your only goal here is to eliminate bias and ease social friction. That being said do not bring up your autism unless there is a very good reason for doing so,

Your only goal here is to eliminate bias and ease social friction. That being said do not bring up your autism unless there is a very good reason for doing so, such as involved conflict resolution. Another good example is you are dating somebody so you would want to bring this up after a few dates to ensure there is a connection, on one hand, but not too delayed because bad news does not get better with age. At the same time try your hardest not to mask your behaviors no matter how natural that may feel. People good at listening and reading other people will instantly see right through that and find your masking behaviors to be either deceptive or incompetent depending upon how they read your motivations. Just be yourself, be honest, and be straight forward. In moments of social complexity restrain yourself from immediately blurting out feedback. It takes practice but attempt to carefully read the room and think through a thoughtful response to moments of social complexity. When that is not enough pull somebody aside and ask for clarification. Nobody will read your patient and carefully considered response to social complexity as weird, but as temporary moments of unfamiliarity. In my case I am not autistic but I am super introverted and extremely agreeable. As a dumb army guy I have had to learn deviate from that through years of practice to become good at reading people and become extremely confrontational. I go far out of my way to not mask my behavior in complex social situations. My wife reads that as oozing with confidence, but its not that at all. Its not wanting to compromise who I am to conform to the people around me, and that has greatly increased my ability to read people, sometimes in ways people find probing without having to say anything at all. There was one time my wife tried to have me evaluated for autism. I was flirting with the counselor and reading her responses. The counselor thought I was one of the least autistic people she had ever interviewed, and that completely pissed my wife off. My wife though I squeezed two weeks worth of charisma into 30 minutes. I was just tired after returning from a deployment and didn't have the energy to be reserved or careful in my communications. My wife was sooo pissed about that. I still hear about it 20 years later.