I have and a Question about smiling

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I think - this is my internal opinion - that when I smile I look like a jack o lantern.

I don't want to smile for no reason. I'm just not that kind of person.

I have that problem also.. I can never smile for the life of me, the only way people take pictures of me is if they don't ask me, like they catch me smiling. I had to do a couple photo shoots, and I couldn't do it, but then when the lady taking the pictures tripped and fell I couldn't stop laughing and smiling, which was rude but I couldn't contain myself. So as it was happening the lady quick took as many pictures of me as possible, and some of them I actually look like I'm giving eye contact and my smile looks actually somewhat good.

I've found it hard to smile too
I had no idea that was my AS

I just wish people would quit telling me to smile.

I can't fake smiles, if I could I would refuse to as far as picture taking is concerned. Most of my pictures look like pictures of people from the great depression era.

This actualy made me remember something from my early childhood. I could not smile and I remember that my mom was trying to get me to smile for some reason and I couldn't do it, not even in the mirror.

I smile a little while taking pictures... so it doesn't look fake. I don't smile at all when greeting people though.

But when I truly AM happy, not only smiling and laughter come easily to me, they come a lot, too.

I don't smile a lot. I've some problems how to control the muscles of my face when other people want me to smile. Where I was in school every time when we were to have a group photo done I always had to make an effort to look happy. When I was 14 my little cousin was baptised and his parents gave a small party on this occasion. Somebody was taking photos - I tried to smile and I was sure that I was smiling but later when I saw the photo my jaw dropped as I realized that in fact the look on my face wasn't even neutral because I looked simply sad.

I usualy never ever smiled as a kid and it wasn't like I had a reason to anyway. Anyway I looked stupid when I did. My mom said I looked cute but then what mother wouldn't. My mom was always telling me I needed to smile and that it took more musles to smile than to frown. The more I think about it I really think I just had a nutural expression all the time. I was able to hold a fake stupid smile (my mom says you can tell I was Autistic from them) for school pictures but then after they started telling me "do this pose this way pose that way. You can't do this, you can't do that". I stopped and they stopped trying to force me to smile because it wasn't worth it. I always thought I looked better in pictures with a nutural expression.

I always smile for the camera but my smiles are always funny. Look in the prom pictures of me. My smiles are weird.

I smile exxcessive, what is not good, although I really like to smile. Anyway sometimes it is inapropriate and even though I smile.

I know people here are very smiley, but my excessive smiles Would probable causes trouble to me at other places.

Most times I feel silly when trying to smiles. Feels very forced and when I look at myself in the mirror I feel goofy. Naturally I do it when I crack up laughing. But at those times it's not a concious thing. Everyone tells me I have a nice smile. When I choose to use it anyway.

I think the difficulty smiling affects a lot of my social interactions. My wife says that when I clam up I get this sullen look on my face. Wouldn't it be so nice if everyone knew about AS and we could just lay it out for 'em on meeting? Then they could understand that we aren't necessarily sullen, aloof, anti-social recluses. Just trapped by their ignorance and our inability to function by their rules of socialization.

I think most people have trouble smiling on command. At least, I think I smile normally/regularly, but can't really do it when asked to for a picture.

I smile and giggle all the time-though when it's appropriate to smile or giggle, I'm generally the last to do so, lol.