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Re:Autism severity can change substantially during early chi... by TrinaryWorksToo on Sunday May 31, 2020 @04:31PM (#23372455)
The closest I've found to making and keeping friends has been the FBI interrogation manual, which explains how police officers who would normally scare a suspect can get them to disclose intimate details of crimes.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/hig-report-august-2016.p...

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/hig-report-interrogation...

Obviously you're not entering an interrogation, and you also want to level the playing field by sharing information yourself.

I think it's an evidence-based guide to how first impressions are formed, and what people often get out of social interactions.

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Re:Autism severity can change substantially during early chi... by Inu on Sunday May 31, 2020 @06:10PM (#23373249)
>The closest I've found to making and keeping friends has been the FBI interrogation manual, which explains how police officers who would normally scare a suspect can get them to disclose intimate details of crimes.

Sorry, but this is the funniest thing I've read on HN in a while.

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Re:Autism severity can change substantially during early chi... by conistonwater on Sunday May 31, 2020 @06:47PM (#23373626)
If you're interested in improving your social skills at work, you might also enjoy the book How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk.

Um, seriously, all effective communication techniques are based on basically the same principles; there's a book by a former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss (Never Split the Difference) where he describes hostage negotiations with terrorists, and it all works in the workplace too. These two are significantly better than How to Win Friends and Influence Friends, which is mostly about sales rather than negotiations.

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Re:Autism severity can change substantially during early chi... by james_s_tayler on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:33PM (#23374431)
That guy is legit.
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Re:Autism severity can change substantially during early chi... by jamiek88 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:08PM (#23374274)
It’s the most hacker news comment ever.

In context reasonable, show it elsewhere and derision would follow.

Funny.

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Re:Autism severity can change substantially during early chi... by hanniabu on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:36PM (#23372967)
Maybe it's just me, but I'm really not seeing how to apply this
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Re:Autism severity can change substantially during early chi... by TrinaryWorksToo on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:39PM (#23374473)
Read the parts on rapport building
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