An excellent pair of questions indeed. I do not think I have ever come across them before.
To answer them, I can only say that I have been informed my awareness levels are quite high when it comes to serious stuff and serious conversation, alas, when it comes down to small talk I can not tell the wood from the trees. I am also not good at all at anything remotely to do with relationships and romance. I flopped at a few simple tests in Psy therapy which bought me to those points.