I’m in this picture and I don’t like it have made peace with the fact that this will always be me.

I don't know if anyone else can relate to this, but this is what the arrow on those self-applied airplane luggage tag stickers feels like to me. For a while I kept peeling off the wrong half because the arrow isn't pointing in a direction that makes sense to me. Iirc, the arrow is pointing towards the part of the sticker you don't peel off, while at the same time being on the part that you do peel off. To me, the arrow should be pointing towards the part you peel off; that seems more intuitive to me for some reason.

That is the conflict between social pressure and individual needs.
Society requires acting in a specific way, but individually, we'd rather not. Hence the fake pleasantries which feel a lot like that sign.

I feel like this sign's design is very logical and depends on the viewers perspective. Far away, moving fast, like a car? Go left. Slow walking pedestrian, up close? Go right

What has higher priority here?

That photo makes me anxious.

I don't get it, do Autistic people follow the one big arrow, or the many little arrows, and which is correct and which is wrong, or does it depend on some other mysterious context?

Ah yes, the refusing out of politeness but actually meaning yes and wait for you to ask again once or twice.

Why did i see all the little arrows in the same direction as the big arrow?

Sounds about right