danmac wrote:
i can't smile....this is all i got!
If this picture is you, then you can smile!
Smiling need not be wide and toothy. There are countless kinds of smiles and ways and
types of smiling. This smile seems to be a friendly, slightly tongue-in-cheek, kind of smile. One
that we have among friends or family, people who know us well, or at least people who know
that which made us smile like this, well.
I think I tend to smile like that a lot too. I'm not a toothy smiling kind of person. At least not often.
I've also noticed that NTs can have some very stylized smiles, so it isn't just Aspies who do it.
But I guess Aspies probably do it a lot more than NTs do.
I've asked around among my friends and acquaintances these past few weeks, and apparently I
don't have this issue. Some have said I can seem less expressive at times, but when I'm in social
situations and consciously behave like others, they say I'm not peculiar.
But Aspies are different in between like everybody else, no?
Autistic deficits vary in type and severity, and this is a good example. I like debates like this one,
because it allows us to get a better idea about the things that Aspies have in common, how and
how much.
_________________
"One Law for the lion and the ox is oppression" W.Blake.
"Life itself is an exercise in Exceptions!" Capt. Picard (Star Trek - The Next Generation).