belle_enigma wrote:
I'll be thinking about certain things and can't help showing what's going through my mind on my face.
sartresue wrote:
I only do this when I am with others, so I suppose I am trying to copy what NTs do, and it is somewhat artificial.
These both apply to me. I've always got a million thoughts running through my mind at the speed of sound, and apparently, my facial expression changes just as often. If I'm spacing out, or focusing on just thought, however, I tend to get this focused face, which my boyfriend has described as upset/angry/sad. He'll ask what is wrong, and I'll be like "huh?" and he describes my face, and I say "Oh, just thinking" and then smile. He then tells me something IS wrong, because it wasn't my genuine smile. Well, he's right: about the latter. lol.
A side note: I do smile...often. I actually love to smile and laugh (I sometimes laugh for an extended period of time...10+ minutes, about the same thing. I once laughed for close to an hour!). I just don't/can't smile all the darn time. Customers, particularly older men, have been known to stop at the desk and tell me to 'smile'. I assume my face is rather neutral when I'm not being particularly stimulated...I thought that was 'normal'. Oh, well.