This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
5. I know how to tell if someone listening to me is getting bored.
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These days I mostly notice it quickly enough (and have realized that most of my nerding out about some topic close to my heart is boring to most people or sounds like a rambling random rant to them) but
it took me all the 40-some years of my life to figure it out. Other people apparently get the rule book of Normal BehaviourTM handed to them at birth.