On a similiar line to the why poor eye contact?
Did the wind change and face stay like this? Take that look of your face, I can't.
I show blatent emotion by laughing or crying that is it.
Weird but I have often felt I could not smile, like the muscles in my face don't work, I smile look forced and a bit bizarre, tend to pout or grin, can look a bit shifty.
yep I got that too. Took me 25 years to find out why.
People think we are heartless because we dont feel the need to share our emotions or socialize.
If they want to know how we feel, then they should ask, and not assume.
I say to hell with em.
We have better things going on in our advanced brains. We are analyzing, processing, and thinking, while they are letting their emotions and social needs drive their every action, like the fools they are.
This "condition" is spreading like wildfire, and soon we will take over. The NT's are scared, so they call it an "epidemic" that needs to be "cured".
IT'S CALLED EVOLUTION.
Soon the intellectuals will reign. Our time is coming...
It is comforting to know that there are others out there with expressionless faces. Not many people know that I have Asperger's, and I have constantly been told to "smile" and "don't pout"... even though I never felt that I was pouting, but rather lost in my own train of thoughts inside my head. It is also very hard for me to paste on a fake smile. It seems the more that I try, the more anxious I become about it.
The thing is I shared my emotions, when I was troubled because interalising makes me ill, but now I know there is a world of 'mandy's out there who are all so similiar yet so different brings me comfort.
The only time I did not share my emotions was when they thought something was wrong because I was quiet with neutral facial expressions with sensory overload. I let them believe I was fine, I could not explain why I could not follow the conversation or to say I am bored. Since I found out and told people, one person gave me a mouth full because I protested I was fine and asked that they stop asking me. It was like they did not believe I was fine. I was fine when the lads started having a laugh with water guns and I was running around with my whip. I am happy as an aspie I love being me. Why do they see it as a problem?
Hey, I've got facial expressions. Four, in fact (I just counted them): angy, sad, demented, and, "eh."
What it comes down to is that I'm just physically incapable of much expression below the browline. I can't frown at all (not don't or won't, but can't), and the best I can manage for a smile is either an iffy grin, which ranges from coy to goofy, or a ghastly rictus.
Doctors have a fancy ten-dollar name for this, but it isn't springing to mind.
That I'm not inclined to show much emotion anyway is probably a blessing under the circumstances.
When acting natural in pictures I look like I was placed on photoshop or something, and when I smile I look like I'm drunk, it's frustrating!
I don't have trouble about laughing or crying, I have trouble controlling them, which is annoying too.
Just today, I was told "smile, it's not so bad". I said, "I'm just feeling tired, that's all". I wasn't even feeling unhappy but the assumption seemed to be that I was sad.
I don't like those pictures of people that have fake smiles that look like a ghastly rictus of pain. It just isn't attractive.
I don't get it. Are we supposed to show our emotions or hide them!? I am constantly told to do both. I actually show emotions prominently. I smile slightly when I think of Wojciech, I cry when I watch sad movies, and I laugh when something is funny. What more do I need to do!?
I also hate it when they tell you to "smile more" in photos. What? My slight smile isn't good enough? No! I don't want to look like a poster you'd find in a dentist's office!
I also don't understand why people have to show their teeth in photos. It's not comfortable, and I only draw my characters that way if they are being dastardly evil like they pushed a kitten off a cliff, or they're trying to look annoyingly confident.
I could not agree with you more!!! That's something that's bothered me for a long time.....I don't understand why people have to always stretch their mouths as wide as they can every time they have their picture taken. It just looks UNNATURAL and STUPID. And then people complain at me when I don't wanna do that? "Come on, Liz, show your teeth." WHY? I just don't get it.
And look at all those ugly photos of movie stars in the womens' magazines. They'd look okay if they just smiled a little bit but not showing every tooth in their mouths.
Natalie, I'm exactly the same way! Heh heh, come to think of it, yeah that happens a lot. Suddenly I start laughing because I just thought of something funny that happened in the past. I laugh by myself all the time. I don't see why that's so unusual. Apparently not a lot of people laugh out loud because of funny memories, or they don't laugh by themselves a lot? I don't know. But it's not uncommon for me to be walking down the street and then suddenly start laughing. And ppl look at me like I'm such a freak, or they say "Are you OK?" I just don't understand why other ppl don't do it. I don't understand why it's such a "weird" thing to do.
Yeah, it seems that once NT people laugh at something once, it somehow isn't funny anymore. I don't get that... If something's funny to me, it stays funny for a long time and I laugh at it for a long time.
The chicken crossing the road doesn't bring up any laughs at all, and it never did.
But this one is great and never fails to make me laugh.
What has four wheels and flies?
A garbage truck.
Because it gives you the image of a flying garbage truck.
On a similiar line to the why poor eye contact?
Did the wind change and face stay like this? Take that look of your face, I can't.
I show blatent emotion by laughing or crying that is it.
Weird but I have often felt I could not smile, like the muscles in my face don't work, I smile look forced and a bit bizarre, tend to pout or grin, can look a bit shifty.
My eye contact has improved quite a bit over the past few years, but often I still have problems smiling when I'm relaxed. It's much easier just to let my face muscles relax.
Yay Japan!
<stuffs hand in mouth to hold back Final Fantasy-related ramble>
Hmm, I might fit in well over there. Except for the red hair. It would be like a really easy Where's Waldo...
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Athie
Anyone else smile at really inappropriate times? I catch myself doing that occasionally...I won't even be thinking of something funny.
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Athie