Lots of autistic children get training by, for example, studying cards that show people with different facial expressions and by playing "social detective" games in which an adult asks the child to figure out what a person is likely feeling in a given situation.
In the future there might be wearable machines that surreptitiously examines faces and bodies of nearby people and transmits an analysis to the machine's wearer. PUAs would likely drive the market for these machines.
this is amusing seeming as I have found this thread 12 years later :)
From my understanding, people on the autism spectrum have difficulty reading people's emotions and general social cues. I'm curious how these people develop these skills and what one can do to improve them. I ask this as a matter of personal interest; while I am somewhat neurotypical, I feel this is an area where I am very lacking.
(Sidenote: would this be considered an appropriate used of the discussion section?)