Good enough at recognizing facial expressions?

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I think I'm ok with facial expressions, so I don't seem impaired in that area. However, my impairment comes from social skills, communication skills, sensory issues and not wanting to disrupt routines unless I get ready for it.

Any other person on the spectrum who can recognize facial expressions pretty well?

I think I'm good at it ... til i miss one >_<


Expression is a whole body language of signals. I might recognize an obvious face that doesn't mean what I thought when combined with certain posture. Kind of like wagging dog that bites

I can't be sure, but I suspect I'm good enough at that. I wish I could find a good test for it, I've seen some bad ones. My main problem is that in real life I just can't remember to actually look at faces.

I guess I don't make an effort to read facial expressions because I find it extremely pointless and i get no information from looking at a persons face at all.

I get by without knowing it, I can't see how it's an impairment.

So I think- if you have other impairments socially and with communication, why would reading facial expressions be relevant at all if you still suck at socializing?

I can recognize facial expressions but I am not always good at knowing what they mean. Which is probably not what you meant by "recognize."

When I take facial expression tests I usually do bad. There was one I did really good on, but the facial expressions were more exaggerated than the others.

I can't notice a difference between expressions that mean completely different things like telling the difference between a shy expression and a mischievous one.

Facial expressions are just the tip of the iceberg. For me, the problem is more about understanding the underlying emotions that get expressed by other people. My emotional vocabulary is quite limited. The extremes are easy and are painful. So, I try to avoid them, shut them out, ignore them and run away. This leads to attachment avoidance and anxiety, not good at all. My suppressed emotions get expressed as pain, not fun.

It feels like a great big hole in me where emotions are supposed to be. How can I make strong connections to other people when I can not understand what they are feeling.

The good news is that emotional/social impairment can improve with practice, like going to the gym. I hope it works.

I have a long history with this problem. My fourth grade class behaved badly and made the music teacher cry. The class was kept after school and told to write a one page essay on what we did wrong. Most of the other kids were gone after 10 minutes. I could only write a few sentences. It was wrong, the teacher cried???

After an hour, my mother came and took me home. It should have been a red flag, nothing was ever done.

Most of the time I can recognize the obvious ones. Sometimes I miss the subtle ones.