Is there an "Aspie face"?

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I noticed that Joe90 noticed that many people stared at her and gives her negative attention and she seems to suspect that it's due to her face or something. I know that aspies are known to have a "flat facial expression" and I was wondering if there was a readily identifiable "aspie face" that neurotypicals can readily identify and react to accordingly?

I don't really know if I'm aspie, but I swear there must be something about my facial expression that attracts negative attention as my body language is the "confident type" that I've purposely practiced and I don't think people would target people who portray confidence (Of course, I might just lack social insight and I might actually have hostile body language.), unless some envy confident people or interpret "confident body langauge" as being stuck-up/snooty. The faces of schizophrenics probably is similar to those with autism, as they also have the "flat affect" or "blunted affect" which is similar, so I might actually have a schizophrenic facial expression and people find it "revolting" or something like that.

You know that's how some neurotypicals operate, like bullies, they just need to identify some characteristic that indicates you're an "outsider" and they purposely target you accordingly because it's a way of suppressing you to discourage you from participating in the social sphere and, subsequently, keeping you from passing on your genes or so I've heard from Paul Coojimans (The deepest purpose of bullying is to try to keep people from adding their genes to the future gene pool.).

Maybe there's something about my appearance like my clothes, who knows. Maybe my behavior is "strange"? I don't fricking have a clue.

My counselor from a couple years ago told me my facial expression and body language reflect reservation. He also used the term "scary," which is great to know. People tell me to smile a lot. I hate that.

I had a complete stranger tell me to cheer up the other day. I wasn't feeling sad at all.

I work in a psychiatric hospital. As I walked down the hall, a patient said to me "look up!" because I usually look at my feet as I walk.

Hmmm, where's the beef?

You look a little sad, but not scary. Beautiful hair and eyes by the way.
The second picture made me lol.

You look sad in the first one and in the second one, you look like you're having fun and being goofy.

Acting NT is possible, but requires a lot of effort and is a bit scary, as you just have to "go with it" much of the time. And then, because you are dedication so much of your higher brain function to acting, you will probably come off as ditzy or weird regardless. It basically feels wrong, so it also requires a lot of willpower.

I always look mad or angry to others
When I'm happy I barely crack a smirk, I just don't like to smile it seems so fake to me. Those NT that walk around with that giddy...way too happy for a plain jane situation are annoying to me.

Well customers at work have thought I was sad or I didnt want to be there. I sorta have a straight face the entire time, my face doesn't look scary I'm just not entirely sure how people are getting sad, depressed or doesn't want to be there. Here's a couple of candid photos.



Spaced out aspie...


Theres my friend whos also aspie...

I actually find any excessive display of emotion of any kind scary and uncomfortable and your second picture is exactly the kind that will do this.

Maybe it is partly the fact that it is so blatantly false that makes the feeling worse.

I'm pretty sure there is an "Aspie default facial expression". It looks wrong because it is totally relaxed. In my teens, I started noticing that NTs have a "default" that is not relaxed, they keep some of their facial muscles in action, immobile, but slightly tensed, such as the area around the mouth: the lips are "held" straight and slightly up at the corners, not a smile, not any expression at all, just not "slack".
Around that age I started working on a "default NT face", and it involves tensing your cranial (temporal maybe?) muscles backwards, pulling the skin of your face back a bit, and it makes you look more open, less sad, and basically, though expressionless, more "normal".
Try practicing this and see if it works, I got a lot less "smile, dammit!!" from strangers when i did this, although I was still not smiling at all.

my aspie face. is it aspie enough?