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03 Aug 2015, 1:47 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
I didn't know showing teeth was required for smiling...seems people do it with their mouths closed just fine. Or are you referring to those obnoxious dentistry commercials that refer to your teeth as your 'smile'.

You know nothing, Sweetleaf. :lol:



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03 Aug 2015, 2:43 am

I don't really know about friendliness either.


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12 Aug 2015, 3:49 am

I hate being told to smile. I dont want to! I dont need or want to plaster a fake expression on my face. I always forget to smile or but a happy expression on my face when I walk by people I know but I dont want to say Hi and they think I am rude.

According to Tyra, there is a way to "smile with your eyes".



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12 Aug 2015, 4:23 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
I didn't know showing teeth was required for smiling...seems people do it with their mouths closed just fine. Or are you referring to those obnoxious dentistry commercials that refer to your teeth as your 'smile'.


I had braces for quite some time as a result of mountain biking (probably :P ), so I picked up the habit of reserving toothy smiles for when I'm actually laughing about something. I guess smiling is friendly because whatever its' story, smiling isn't negative.


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12 Aug 2015, 6:03 am

i see smiling for no reason as just a ploy to show off their teeth.
people respond to smiles i see, and i think it is because they sort of anthropomorphize (heh) the face of the smiler and get infected by it.
people smile when they are happy. i just do not frown when i am happy. i know i am happy but it does not spread to my face.
people frown when they are angry. i just do not smile when i am angry. i know i am angry but i always have a dead expression.
i do not feel sad much, but i would not smile even then.
people cry which i never understood. they feel something that reacts with their face and they "cry". people i learned cry when they are sad, but i also see that people cry when they are happy. it must not automatically mean they are either happy or sad, it must not mean anything else but a physical response to whatever is coursing through their nervous system.

i have cried when i hurt my finger, but that was more a cry of frustration with the object that hurt my finger because i was about 4 or so and i felt ripped off by the hammer and hated it and i cried because i could not punish it directly.

people have a rich garden in areas where i know of nothing but barren ordinariness, but i have a stability of mood that prevails when they are blown hither by their attitudes and cares.



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12 Aug 2015, 8:35 am

Soomander wrote:
You know nothing, Sweetleaf. :lol:


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