In at least one case, I'm pretty sure it was the former (as she was completely open with me with much, much more serious stuff, and was confused about other stuff as well).
Thus, you need to find someone with higher social competence to get advice from. Also, I discussed elsewhere the possible value of structured social interactions like board gaming.
Also, I discussed elsewhere the possible value of structured social interactions like board gaming.
I once used to play chess for a while, and the skills involved in chess didn't feel particularly related to the skills involved in reading people. (In particular, chess against a human doesn't feel much different from chess against a computer to me unless I take the game too seriously and resort to Dark Arts, which makes me feel awful.) Poker seems much closer to me, and I'm indeed practising with it (online and with fake money for now).
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.