Too expressive?

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Here I am asking about traits again trying to figure myself out.

Instead of being under-expressive with my emotions, I am the polar opposite. I am bipolar so I have intense emotions and facial expressions, and everyone can tell how I am feeling, I can't hide it. I can also tell how others are feeling... though I have been told I sometimes guess wrong in that area.

I don't have the money now, but I'm just thinking about the future if I have more money about getting accessed... or actually accessed for ADHD too because my therapist I read in an article was an expert in ADHD and he told me before I might be diagnosable, so maybe I have the wrong problem I'm thinking about.

I find it hard to hide my emotions as well. I have almost no social mask and what I'm feeling always shows, this makes me a crap liar.
And also when I'm excited or something I can't keep that in, if I'm feeling particularly restless and hyper I'll start making daft noises and voices (a vocal stim of mine) and move around a lot excitedly.
The only thing I have a problem with though, is expressing how I feel in words. If something's bothering me and my mum asks what's wrong, I'll say nothing or say "nothing!" and then later on say "I don't know!..." then after I've thought about it just say I feel odd or weird. It takes a while to actually say what I'm feeling, even if I'm expressing it in other ways very over the top.

Well, i usually have a pretty narrow range of emotional expression. Sometimes i get excited about things, but even with that i don't really have a normal range of expression. When i'm having a meltdown, however, i definitely think i get "too" expressive.

I think that lacking subtlety can also be an autistic trait, though.

I have bipolar disorder as well, but I wouldn't say I have intense emotions any more. Before it was controlled with medication, yes for sure my emotions were intense and frightening, but I would say that when the bipolar is removed from the equation I don't have too much of an affect. I agree with ColdBlooded that when there's too much input and I get overwhelmed I can be too expressive.

I've done some theatre work and I find myself manufacturing an affect a lot of the time so I blend in.

Does being bipolar make overloads closer to the surface or easier/more often for you?

Some of the professional literature on autism says that we either underemote or overemote, so either can be a sign.

I'm sorry. I know that out of control feeling and it's not pleasant.

I had shutdowns when I was a kid, but I don't think they were bipolar related - I don't think I was a bipolar kid. I had a pretty definable break when I was 23.

I'm not bipolar. I do have random outbursts and facial expressions that may be related to thoughts, but aren't coming out right . . . it seems to be a combination of errors.

For example, I may recall something I did wrong at work days before. Though I feel anxiety or regret, I may suddenly smile or laugh . . . or grunt . . . or just screw my face up . . . there doesn't seem to be any sort of proper regulation.

And despite years of attempting facial expressions, they still are subject to failure, whether by exaggeration or substitution.