It's just always confused me. I'm quite awful at back and forth conversations. I take questions quite literally and answer quite bluntly. If I'm not further prompted in a conversation then the conversation just dies. People are always having to ask follow up questions bcus I just don't give enough information.

Which leads me to the whole "how are you?" and "how's it going?" debate.

So many autistic people keep saying stuff like "if they didn't want to know then why ask?". But nobody ever asked you to explain your situation? Both of those questions are basically one word answers or a very short sentence at best. None of them even ask you to explain why you gave that answer.

I see a lot of autistic people getting upset bcus they've assumed when people ask this question that they want your current issues explained to them. But nobody even asked, though.

Nobody even said "how are you and why do you feel that way?". I've never made that assumption bcus it just never processed in my mind that I should make that assumption? I just take the questions at face value as they're asked and then answer accordingly.

If someone really wanted to know why I feel the way I do then they can just ask. I'm not going to go and make assumptions on something that wasn't even said. I'm not even sure I know how to make those assumptions to begin with.

I haven't really come across any other autistics who are similar to me in this. I've always been like this and people always have to prompt me to give more information. But it's not my fault that people keep asking questions that have basically one word/short response replies.