Strange Facial Expressions

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Sometimes I'll just zone out and daydream for a while, but when I come back into reality I find myself making weird faces or moving my mouth in a weird way. It makes me feel very uncomfortable because I know people notice this sometimes. Does anyone else catch themselves doing this?

Do it all the time. Try to be more aware of it, but it makes me wish i could carry a closet around with me.

Sure, I do this all the time. And unfortunately other people do notice, and apparently deem it a worthy object of their curiosity at best, and (particularly when I was a child/teen/young adult, and those noticing were around my own age) a worthy object of scorn or derision or provocation to cruelty and maltreatment at worst.

I have this BADLY. ever since i was small people have said "why are you making those faces?"

There is a kind of uncontrollable plasticity to my facial expressions.
I was in a shop yesterday and I caught my own reflection in a mirror opposite the counter, and I did not recognise myself and thought the person looked really weird. It was me.

When i first came into 12 step programs, some of the less than nice people would make fun of some of my rather strange facial expressions.

I try to control it when around others, but if I let my guard down, it just happens quite obviously.

Come out of reverie with expressions (anger), that startle others, which startles me.

I had no idea but recently some friends told me that I have inappropriate facial expressions or none at all.

My mom's pointed them out. When I get focused, I send to do things with my mouth or make funny faces. Same as when I'm sitting. Mom has also pointed that out. My husband said I make funny faces when I am into the computer and focused. I often feel I am making them but I can't seem to stop it. I don't know if I really am or not.

Today, after walking around the fronts and backs if the apartment complexes where I live, I walked into my apartment, pretty sure that I had this huge grin on my face. I was in the Christmas Spirit! I had to have a grin! I looked in my bathroom mirror and I saw the young Mick Avory looking back at me...not one hint of a grin. I thought, "Oh, well...that's how I look." and made supper.

Yeah, I do this all the time, as well, more so when under stress/with too many sensory stimuli. I also have inappropriate emotional expression because whatever goes on in my inner world affects me more than whatever goes on in the outer world.

The main thing I seem to do is curl my lower lip downwards and kind of rub it on my chin. Funny thing is, I was reading the title to this thread, and just realized I was doing it again.