Greetings fellow millennial, I got the one two punch of ADHD and Autism so I get the confusion when you realize that your brain is the odd one out and not everyone analyses and mimics others body language and social cues to figure out the “right answer” to any given conversation.
I get that, I spent the better part of an hour trying to parse a badly written bumper sticker about their mullet being smarter than your honor role student, because my brain hyper-focused and combined with my literalism I was sure I was missing some key context that made it “funny”. So yeah, the written word without enough context can be hard to understand for neurodivergent individuals.