Have people said you look angry (when you're not)?
I crinkle my forehead most of the time and my eyes drop. I guess this makes me look angry. My mouth also looks like an upside down smile when I'm relaxed. I'm tired allot of the time due to a life time of poor sleeping patterns. It has had an effect on how my face is aging.
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I was also bugged by people telling me stuff like "smile" starting at about age 10 and accused of looking angry countless times since then right up until the present day. I too thought it was just me, so it's interesting to learn that it was likely due to my being an aspie. Smiling has never come naturally for me except when something is truly funny or makes me happy. Even at the age of 10 I thought it was stupid to insist someone smile because that would make them look like a simpleton, besides I had very little to smile about, being picked on at school almost daily and even teased and judged by my own family so it struck me as incredibly ignorant for people to say things like that.
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I can be happily looking at trees out of a bus or car window and be told i look miserable; i can be scared and on the verge of tears and be told i look angry ...how such nt's can have a go at me for not understanding their facial expressions i don't know. And what kind of made up nonsense is "tacit" ?!
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Last edited by Tizerize on 22 Oct 2014, 7:53 am, edited 1 time in total.
AND... I hate it when 'well meaning' people tell me to smile, especially when i've had a very taxing day / week...
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