Four things movies always get wrong about awkward people

Here, from the masters at Cracked.

Normal people suck

Ho, ho, ho.

Merry Christmas anyway.

Honest Graduation Song

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Buzz Killington

I think we've all been this guy at some point.

AS senses of humor: satire/parody

I am clearly missing some fundamental insights into how the world works: so much of it makes no sense whatsoever.

So many of us feel that way of course, because the glitch in our brains either makes it impossible or very hard to get those insights. So of course besides fish-out-of-water stories and characters (aliens, robots and foreigners) - Spock, Data the android, Mork, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Latka on Taxi (who also has goofy front personalities), Balki on Perfect Strangers - many of us love comedy that makes fun of the normals' absurdity and hypocrisy, from Monty Python (I'm sure a number of us, like with our cousins among the normals, nerds, have memorized and like to quote whole sketches) to The Simpsons. Andy Kauffman's schtick as Latka falls under that too: the cute, childlike, clueless foreigner tries to guess at and imitate normal American behavior and becomes an obnoxious caricature. So do Mork, 3rd Rock and Perfect Strangers.

Therapy

It seems to me of all the talk therapies (most of which are useless with AS - your problems reading people are nothing to do with how your parents raised you or what you saw down by the mill when you were 10), cognitive therapy would work best with AS people. I've never tried it though so I don't really know. AS people overthink things compared to normals as a coping strategy; cognitive therapy would harness that.

Some therapy humor: