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I was in work today on a shift that seemed to last forever. I basically had a string of customers at my till that said virtually the same thing to me. One was like "Do you feel like a robot working here? It's just you look so bored and blank. It's like there's noone there". I was really taken a back with this and didn't know what to say at first. I just tried to shrug it off as it was because I was tired (which is what I'm so used to doing when people comment that I look depressed etc). But then it struck me that I am a person who doesn't really have much facial expression and I do know I most often have a listless blank gaze or a "thousand yard stare".
Does anybody else experience this to some degree? Is this common for aspies to experience?

I get that sometimes, yes. But I more often get questions such as "why are you angry/sad?" or "are you ok?" even though I'm fine. Apparently I don't smile enough.

I get a lot of comments about my facial expressions...from "why are you making such a weird face?" to "What's wrong? you look upset!"...when actually I either feel nothing or I'm lost in thought.

When running errands, i get the "Are you OK?" question, so they wre seeing something in me that i am not seeing. So i just say that in am just doing OK.

wow I get that almost everyday off my parents. Constantly asking me whether I'm okay and they keep asking "what's up?". Like 90 percent of the time they ask me I'm fine. It really gets on my nerves.

I have a pretty unexpressive face, too, but it could be because I'm blind (although research shows blind people have the same non-verbal language as sighted people).

If I'm not laughing inappropriately, when I have anxiety my face tends to project a look of anger, which leads to being asked why I'm such an angry person, which fuels my anxiety and snowballs from there

I get this all the time, one girl at university in particular constantly asks me "Are sure you're ok?" in social situations like bars when I'm just sitting enjoying the atmosphere. Thinking back this issue might have been the reason.

I frequently get the comments, "Are you ok?" "You look sad." "What are you thinking about?"

When really, I'm perfectly fine, not sad, and not really thinking of anything in particular.

That's my default setting, but I'm a mimic, so I tend to try and match attitudes and facial expressions (normally taken from TV, so I guess it's over dramatized) but when I am not around people, or I forget people are around, or just tired I revert to my listless staring.

I hear this regularly at work. I'm a critical care nurse, so the flat affect kind of works for me because people appreciate nurses who stay extremely calm in high stress situations, but my co-workers also note that they can never tell when when my patient is crashing and I need help super-stat, because I ask for assistance in the same tone, and with the same facial expression, that I might use if I were asking for a donut. Some of them have taken to playing little pranks to see if they can get me to react emotionally. All in good fun, I hope?

New to the forum, thanks everyone for being here.

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