can you smile

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Sure i can smile. it looks something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btn4KwHO0WA

Thus getting me more unwanted attention, which is the last thing i want, i prefer to be a splinter cell, agent 47, go unnoticed and hidden in the crowd.

The trick to a good fake smile is in your eyes. You have to crinkle them slightly, kind of like you're squinting just a bit. You can practice by looking in a mirror and covering your mouth with one hand so it doesn't distract you.

I'm not sure, but I think my face just always looks like it's smiling. People I don't know often come up to me and ask me why I'm smiling or just start talking to me like we're old friends. In reality I'm usually just spacing out and have no idea what my face is doing.

I think it may have happened today actually. At lunch a middle school boy in Ikea spotted me from across the dining area and gave me a big grin. He came over and sat at my table then I think he tried to casually flirt with me as he drank his lingonberry soda. It was adorable but also kinda awkward, as I'm 28. =_=

I have the opposite problem. My relaxed face looks angry. I have to make a conscious effort to turn up the corners of my mouth just to look not-unhappy.
I'm a human bulldog.

^This! And if I force it I look like a psychotic murderer, scrunching my eyes doesn't help either. Only makes me look more psycho!

I have a hard time TRYING to smile. Like forcing it. If something pleases me, or it's funny/etc., I can smile.

That's called RBF.

yes, I can smile....I can even produce sorts of facial expressions
You could say that I learned by watching people, with their facial expression, gestures, even posture and I just naturally imitate it....I can become a chameleon in social situations
At school, I always smile to hide my anxiousness in social situations and other emotions like fear, sadness, etc. though sometimes I end up exaggerating my smile, and since I'm always smiling in front of other people, when I talk about serious things....people are like, 'Why are you smiling?? That is not something to be smiling about' but I don't even realize that I'm smiling

At home, I take off the 'mask' and become expressionless girl...it's really exhausting to put a front

Ditto, in fact this is what amazes me about some women, males are so bad at faking the smile but it comes so gracefully and naturally to women. I seriously cringe when I see males posing for a photo, their smiles feel so fake that it makes me wonder whats the point of smiling when it comes off as false... but when women do it... it seems so natural and genuine...bizzare.

Although because of my silly sense of humor, it's extremely easy to get me to laugh/smile...a person can just stare at me and if I know they have the intention of getting me to smile, I'm going to smile.

When I was a child and having my photo taken, my mother would always be there telling me to smile. When I smiled she would keep saying "No, do your proper smile", so I kept moving my facial muscles until I reached an approximation of what she thought was my "real smile" and she shut up.

Trouble is, this has stuck with me into adulthood and nowadays I look quite psychotic in photos. Cant help it.

Sometimes though, I'll see a myself in a candid type photo and think it looks alright. I wish I could remember how i was feeling at the time and reproduce it, but emotions are hard to pin down unless it's in the moment.

If I make a conscious effort to smile I think it comes out pretty weird and disjointed, I don't like to show my teeth. Looks totally forced.

I have no problem genuinely smiling, it's the fake smiling that I have an issue with. I dislike fake emotions.

Reading about what tips people off to fake smiles helped me to develop mine. The key points seemed to be that it was too quick to appear/disappear and that the rest of the face didn't move.