[He keeps grabbing his own fingers and twisting them gently; it's a reflex. It occupies his mind while he tries to sort out his feelings.]

... Social cues, primarily. I... I w-was not good at perceiving them.

... Still am not. Th-though... [Softly:] I... I think I might be learning some of yours'.

[If Robert has been seeming to notice things over time that he didn't before, Don, that might be why.]

But because of that, there is... an e-entire part of some conversations that is not... visible to me. Wh-when I was neurotypical, I perceived these parts, b-but... ... I cannot, anymore. [He remembers, sometimes, fleetingly, how it worked. But he can't do it again, not nearly so easily.]

... As a result it... m-makes it difficult to determine what people r-really... mean. Whether they are... being honest... Like with Mr. Saki.