Dear Ryan, continued:

According to www. cambridge cognition. com/ blog/ social cognition: an important but overlooked aspect of cognitive function, social cognition is the ability to identify other people’s emotions, typically from vocal or facial expressions, as well as infer more complex mental states of other people.

“Social cognitive deficits have traditionally been linked with autism spectrum conditions. However, a recent paper from Cambridge Cognition suggests that deficits in social cognition are exhibited across a range of neurological, psychiatric and development disorders…

“The paper, ‘Social cognitive dysfunction as a clinical marker…’ published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.. reported that.. across these patient groups, deficits in social cognitive domains were broadly similar in magnitude to those previously reported for more established aspects of cognition, such as memory and executive function.”

In your posts, Ryan, you often described in detail, your ex and your friend-co-worker’s vocal and facial/ bodily expressions, quoted their words.. all in effort to have the reader help you understand the woman’s feelings, intentions.. her simple and more complex mental states. You needed help with your social cognitive deficits all along.

anita