not aware of your face?

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does anybody have a hard time figuring what face other people are observing when they are looking at you? Or sometimes somone comments on you for some reason that you dont know...........

You mean you don't know what face you are making while talking to someone?

I'm really not in touch with my face. Often when I think I'm having a smile on my face, I'm actually barely showing any real reaction. Nowadays I generally try to overexaggerate my facial expressions and even though they feel bit 'overwhelming', this seems to be the way for me to reach the normal level.

Yet I sometimes also naturally overdo it without trying...

I have spent an inordinate amount of time staring into the mirror; sometimes in the light, sometimes in darkness; and no matter how long I look, I am always struck with the nagging notion that I'm looking at a stranger, someone I do not recognize.

If I cannot recognize myself, how can I possibly conceive of what others see when they look at me?

I think I do not have a face; just a mask; nobody is ever observing me when they are looking at me. I've been told that my eyes are very expressive; I’ve been told this more than a few times; I believe those who've told me that, but I cannot say I perceive what they perceive. Maybe that perception is an aspect of me that is broken; maybe that is why I always see a stranger in the mirror.

I've said this before; and I stick by what I've said.

Good fortune,

- Icarus can bend his mask into many expressions...

Same here. I've been told I look sad when I'm really happy. The neuropsych though says I have blunted effect ie: no facial expression. Well isn't that normal for an Aspie?

My dr who has a son with AS told me that Aspies should watch Animae because it teaches Aspies facial expressions.

I have a hard time concealing my emotions:
annoyance, anger, shock, etc.
I get a lot of advice to be more subtle.
My face is so animated that I've even gotten Jim Carey (oh the horror!) comments before, but only from really, really close "friends".

I'm not really sure if I've got the other extreme as well. One memorable comment I've gotten was that it's really unsettling if I sit there and listen to two people I don't know very well talk about controversial things and have no opinion or response.

Another comment that keeps running through my head was from a friend of my sister:
Probably the only time he ever spoke to me, he asked me why I always look like I'm going somewhere (in the church social hall where you're supposed to relax and mingle).
I don't know if they were making fun of me or if he really, sincerely was wondering...
I was bewildered by the comment at the time, but looking back, I suppose I just wanted to get out of there, didn't know what to do with myself...

I got told i looked angry by my mother yesterday but i was feeling nothing,i made a comment on how silly it was to buy expensive things if it caused so much stress thinking about people robbing the house.

Frequently I look in a mirror and am surprised. I'm surprised when people divulge what they think of me, usually after days of diciphering what the hell they were on about, they are so cryptic. That theory of mind stuff really applies to me, I have very little concept of others having seperate minds.

Yeah, I often have to think about my facial expressions, especially when I'm tired. My friend said she knows I'm tired of socializing when I stop making expressions.

I like making faces in the mirror (especially faces like the one in my avatar.)

Making faces is easy when I'm in front of a mirror. I wish it were that easy to make faces at people .

This has been discussed before. Facial expresstions are a major problem for AS pt.

I am sometimes accused of being angry when I am in deep thought,and I try to bring a book so no one thinks I am looking at them.