Do you ever have trouble with expressing yourself?

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I have plenty of feelings but I can rarely explain them adequately in spoken words. It never feels like I get the gist of them correct. Couple that with poor and inapropriate facial expressions and people, essentially, have no idea who I am really. I try to stick to a neutral, pleasant expression in general. And it is still a process I need to monitor to maintain. I'm hoping, at some point, that it just becomes second nature through muscle memory or something.

That's an excellent way to put it. I have a lot of trouble expressing emotions. Facts, stories, etc, I'm almost hyperverbal about. I can go on and on expressing those. But the minute it's about expressing emotion I can't find the right words. Either nothing comes out, or the same thing keeps coming out, or the wrong thing does. It sucks.

~Kate

^^ THAT. I have mastered a "neutral" expression so that people, especially at work, don't think I'm inappropriately smiling at emotional stuff that's not supposed to be smiled at. I had to practice it in front of a mirror when I was in high school because ppl used to say "why are you smiling at that?" when I had no intention of smiling or making light of a situation and it used to make me feel like a freak. I also used to laugh inappropriately when I was stressed, but I've managed to stop doing that by brute force. I really wish I could have more "normal" expressions of emotion, both verbally and nonverbally.

~Kate

I cannot express how much trouble I have expressing my self.

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Seriously.

no. i can express myself adequately. it is other people who have a deficit of understanding who do not see my point of view that have the "trouble".

i do not care to a great degree whether i talk to people or not, but when i do talk to them, i consider their bewilderment at what i say to be their problem and not mine.
i fully understand what i am saying, but if it is lost in peoples heads due to whatever obstacles they have to think through before they see what i say, then that is completely their problem.

i know how to describe what i want to say, and if people's brains are not attuned to my words, then it is because they can not listen.... not because i can not say.

i do not spend much effort in trying to communicate. what is the use? if someone else knows what you think, it does not affect what you think in any way (in my case at least).

so ill spent calories in futile descriptions can be saved with the realization that no one else cares.

good night (as it were)

same

Yeah, I find it hard to describe my emotions to others most of the time. However, if I'm angry, depending on how close I am to being in a rage, a fifth option may become available.

E. Just f**king leave me alone!

That pretty much sums it up for me, as well. It's better for me to hide my feelings from people like that.