do you hold back smiles?

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I often have to hold a kind of grimace when I am about to smile because I feel like when I do smile it is at inapproriate times and when I don't I am supposed to...so I just kind of grimace...not sure if I spelled that right.

Yes, I do all the time. I'm not sure what other people think when I do that.

I know what you mean, used to do it as kid for some reason.

Hehe, I do that a lot. I'll be listening to someone... something they say will trigger a tangental train of thought... then somewhere down the line of another tangent, I'll think of something funny. I then realize that I haven't heard a word the person has been saying and try to hold my smile back.

I realized that people like when I smile to them, so I try to smile more.
Sometimes I don't smile when I should and sometimes I smile when it's inappropiate. People look funny doing some of their behaviours, but they don't feel funny. I'm still learning.

When I'm tired of pretending happy girl, I don't smile and if anyone asks, I say something like oh, I never smile, my religion forbids it.

Actually, I have to remember to smile often enough so I won't appear weird to NTs. I tend to keep my face more or less blank most of the time, but I think I'm improving. One of the situations where I think smiling is almost always appropiate is when we spend a stretch of time together, talking and doing other things, and the other person has not looked at me for a while because they have been paying attention to whatever their hands have been busy with. Then, when they look at me again, I give a smile to show that I appreciate their presence and that I am still paying attention to them. This far, nobody has ever minded this kind of "nice-you-are-still-spending-time-with-me"-smile for all I can tell.

I have trouble smiling too much, I'm not sure if it's related or not. I've actually had women tell me that I smile too much and they assume I'm a totally different person. It's even more apparent if I've been drinking a little. I've been told it actually hurts my chances with the ladies more than it helps! I guess I'm just a bit confused.

i try to suppress if a smile might not be appropriate or doesn't represent how i'm feeling, as i would rather express nothing than something inaccurate.

i sometimes have trouble not smiling if i'm angry at someone, for example, or giving or receiving bad news. it embarrasses me.

I hardly ever smile .. to smile for a picture feels really false because smiling isnt me .. ofc i occasionally laugh or some times i smile at something but mostly i dont

No. When I feel happy enough to smile, I let it show. It feels good to smile and it makes other people feel good as well.

No, for me it is the other way around, I try to smile lol

As some of the others said tho, if someone if talking about something serious but said something that reminded me of something funny then yeah I will refrain (or try to refrain) from smiling, especially because if I smile about something funny then it is probably more obvious then my regular smile.

Example, stepson got home with his face red on one side (like when you hit something like a door frame etc, not like a punch), I asked him what happened, he explained that he was walking and talking with someone and wasn't paying attention and ran into a street lamp ... it was very difficult not to start laughing lol of course I'm sorry he got hurt (it wasn't that bad tho, just a little bruise), but when he explained how it happened I could imagine the situation in my head lol

I don't smile naturally and usually don't think about think about it until after the moment has passed. If I do think about it, what comes out is more of a thin lipped grimace. People are often surprised to discover I have very pronounced dimples. At least when you see a big grin from me, you know it's genuine.

I can never smile on cue when someone is taking a ppicture of me.