A relative of mine never smiled. When he was 60, he realised he had prosopagnosia: the inability to recognize faces.
Such people should have difficulty reading people, but they don't. If you can't read faces, from birth you use other cues. You compensate from the day you were born. So you see through camouflage.
Richard Branson couldn't read, so he watched people's faces during the PowerPoint presentation.
Everybody in the room loves the job candidate. You say "He seems to be a nutcase" and then shut up because nobody sees past the practiced charm. Two months later he walks out after a 2 hour screaming session and doesn't come back.
If you have prosopagnosia, the parts of your brain that deal with body language and tone of voice will be physically larger than other people, since you have had to rely on these cues from birth.
If you think someone is a "bad listener" or "socially awkward", they can probably see straight through you.
The slightly odd guy in the room sees through camouflage.
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