Facial Expression Don't Match Emotions??

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Okay, my face makes its own facial expressions without me knowing lol, like my bf always goes why are u mad but ur smiling, like huh? i thought i had an angry face on lol, i dont understand me at all haha.

I know i have facial tics, and thats part of my tourettes, but sometimes i think my facial problems are due to my autism, so anybody on here have problems where their facial expressions dont match their emotions?

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Well, I am sure this is common here.

Anyways, everything for me is a smirk or a laugh (when reacting to something). If I am feeling sad, I would laugh at the idea of me being sad. If I hear horrible news, I'll smirk because it is all I know. When I try to be empathic, I look confused. The only thing that is spot on is anger, but I always have a frown/scowl look on my face. My professor asked "What's wrong? Bad day? You always look like somethings wrong." That's my normal face.

When I go shopping I look "suspicious". When I feel "happy" I look nonchalant.

I am ignorant at putting "emotions + expressions" together.

My face doesn't really do that whole emotion thing...it's really really odd! I have to force myself to do any facial expression

Yeah, I get that at work, alot. People always ask me if I'm having a bad day. I guess I seem to look mad when I'm thinking, and I think alot. I'm not really mad, I'm in a kind of neutral state. Not happy or mad, almost emotionless. Oh well.

Yeah I usually forget to do facial expressions. People ask me all the time why I'm so mad or sad, when the truth is I'm feeling perfectly alright. They never seem to buy it when I say "Huh? I'm not!"

It happens to me too, and Adverb.

Apparently I often look bored or angry, even when I am at rest. My mother often comes up to me and says..."Why are you in a bad mood?"...i respond with..."I'm not, i'm perfectly ok,".

I remember an incodent last year where I was at my great grandfathers funeral...
My mother was talking about my great grandfather infront of everyone and something that she said made me sad. A few minutes later I was told off by an old man with one eye for "smiling at innapropriate times".
I didn't know that I had a grin on my face, it was completely subconcious. And I certainly was not happy.

People tell me I almost always have a suspicious look on my face.

I can't even describe my relationship with my face. I'm sort of hyper-aware of it, but I don't have complete control of it, yet I sort of do. It's like I'm constantly holding the controls for my face muscles and feeling everything they do, but whenever I don't make an effort to keep it in "I AM A ROCK" mode, my mouth and eyes go all Jim Carrey and s**t. So to keep from getting all goofy and rubberfaced, I have to avoid emoting completely. It's a struggle.

My boss said, "Smile, Mark!" and I said, "I AM smilin'!"