RBF is real...so say new studies.....

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That's scary. I wouldn't want that to happen.

Indeed! I wouldn't want that to happen to me either.

I can actually imagine a few cases where that could end up in a not-so-nice surprise. Imagine someone wants to write about how something they paid much for was a botch job (link to the Wiktionary, for those who are not familiar with the term) and they slip and accidentally write "i" instead of "o" without realizing. Or they just wanted to talk about the band Botch (Wikipedia link, I don't know them, but I had to find another example for a potential typo-ban and did a search ).

To get back on topic:

Fair point actually. When you put it like this, the fact they made such a study might not be as useless as it appeared to me at first. I just hope they won't get into overinterpretations... The article was implying they might end up doing that though.

I think that overly neutral expressions can seem unhappy, anyway, regardless of facial features. I'm wondering if this is why so many people on WP report suffering from "resting b***h face." We often tend to have flat facial expressions. I was told specifically that I had a very flat expression ("flat affect") during my evaluation.

Mine was sorta all over the place from what I can gather and special notations on being dramatic at odd times. But, in the real world, when people are around me for periods of time, I get that you look angry stuff.

Well...yeah...that's human nature....look how we pick apart everything LOL

Heh, true that!
*secretly puts everything back together and pretends nothing happened*

I just hope they won't miss the obvious just like I did (with the benefits of an official study).

I look at it this way: Now, maybe people can start to say it's not a real thing and it's just an excuse for people to not look good and that now it'll be trendy.......takes the heat off us to a degree......

The hipster and nerd-trends get replaced by: RBF!
I don't think I would mind actually.

With you on that one too. But, honestly, I was juat as bad at that age on that sort of thing. Although I avoided the whole disco thing, I was still a goof in that way. Just a different way.....

I've never been told that I always look angry. Although my mother has sometimes asked me what's wrong and says it's because I have a queer look on my face. Of course, my mom was raised in an era when "queer" just meant "strange".

I think I always look angry when I see myself in the mirror, though, even when I'm smiling and very well happy. It's the eyebrows.

I can't say how you perceive yourself. But, I don't think anybody gets told all the time. But it is mentioned a lot. I think it's annoying for me because I'm just thinking or something. But, I also just found out through the evaluation that my non-verbal cues and verbal cues don't match up, so I wonder what mixed messages I am sending.

And, I do get that 'what's wrong' thing too sometimes.