My social skills are weird. I feel like they are weirdly underdeveloped due years of not really using them. I went on another hike today and I met an american woman there who moved here not too long ago.  On one hand I feel like can talk to people fine, but I think she wanted me to ask for her number. We met several times on the trail, and when she came my opposite way, I asked her if she knew the way. Then we talked abit and she introduced herself even before I could ask for her name. I had a response of wanting to keep going on the trail even though she seemed like she wanted to talk a ton about how she moved here and all kinds of things, while I mainly just listened. When people talk to me like that I can't retain all the information, I don't know if that's due to leftover autism. At the end she even said something like I go hiking here often maybe we'll meet each other again
I used to think that I cured my autism, but when I talk to people I feel like I am not sure what to do or whether they want to exchange numbers and so on. I think I need to keep practicing my social skills. Now when I think about it did seem that she was prolonging the conversation when I was looking towards the trail
She was slightly older than me but not bad looking
Then I also met an older Iranian man at the subway who asked me for directions, and I showed him the way, because I was going exactly in his direction too. and he told me a bunch of things, that he had a house in Iran and so on. He was very friendly. I told him I hope the war calms down and doesn't become ww3
Then I also met a cat at the top of the hiking trail who sat on my lap