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You can read all that, or, just spend some time around functional adults.

These are problems born of children being stuck with other children and having little exposure to a variety of adults.

We're much better at copying what others do, than internalizing rules spread out over 20+ pages (why is this done?)

In order to “just spend some time around functional adults”, you're expected to be “functional” yourself. If you don't have social skills, it's way harder to “just” do things around people, both because of your limitations and their expectations.

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