I want to listen to your tone. That's my cue. It's the cue that animals use. My thinking is a lot more like animal thinking. Animals are very sensitive to tone of voice.
Eye contact means threat or challenge.
Oliver Sacks took the name of his book, An Anthropologist on Mars , from a phrase you used to describe yourself. I had to learn everything about how to act and play. I knew I was different but didn't know why. Then I got to college and read a magazine that said that cavemen couldn't make tools unless they had language. I wondered why they needed language to develop tools.