It has to do with how much you can infer by listening to a conversation.

No it doesn’t? Inference is what you make it; you can think a podcast person is agreeing with you when they really aren’t.

Autism doesn’t really play into this; no human gets intuition correct, due to bias.

It absolutely has something to do with it. One of the symptoms of autism is a weak theory of mind, i.e. the inability to see the world through the perspective of another person, i.e. to understand their motivations.

Yes but being deaf would also be relevant; there are lots of other things that could alter your listening experience.

What I said is applied to people in generally good health and free from any kind of impairment.

It’s not generally considered relevant to list out all the conditions and diseases that could alter one’s experience…