Does it annoy you when someone smiles constantly?

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Constant smiling can mean many things:

• They are genuinely very happy all the time.
• They are unhappy but have been socially conditioned to hide it with a fake smile.
• They are trying to get something out of you and are faking friendliness.
• They are senile and out of it.
• They are completely batshit insane and are in some kind of stupor, completely oblivious to their surroundings. They carry on with no real awareness of their environment. This represents severe cases of disorganized (hebephrenic) and catatonic schizophrenia although flat affect is more common.
  

Whether or not they are Christians is debateable depending upon who you ask. Frankly, I don't really care one way or the other- I'm agnostic and I _just_don't_care_. It's pretty immaterial to me.

The reason I mentioned them seperately is that the style of smiling is different somehow between the born again Christians with their overly effusive enthusiasm and bubbliness (which, incidentally, is just so much fun to see freeze and fall off of their faces) and the very polite and well rehearsed, somewhat quieter but still too phony smiles of your average JW.

I like most Jehovah Witnesses, as a rule, BTW. Even though I am agnostic I still talk to the ones who come to the door. I just wish they'd smile less. It seems to call for a response or reciprocation which I do not feel like giving.

Lady where I used to work would smile all the time. It really, really bothered me. She did a assembly job, and would smile the entire time like she was on LSD or something. It wasn't just a subtle smile, but a near-outrageous curling of the lips, like a hungry orc or fell beast. I made it a point to stay away from her, becasue I thought,

or maybe the "batshit insane" part might have fit.

It isn't excessive -smilies- that bother me, but excessive -smiles-. Smilies are just images of smiles that have been deformed and twisted beyond recognition.

These are the two conclusions I usually come to.
I don't like Conclusion 1 smiles because I don't like to see other people happy when there's really nothing to be happy about.
Conclusion 2 smiles are everywhere and haunt my waking life seven or eight hours a day, every day of the year... it's really quite frightening.

Unfortunately my face naturally falls into a smile when I am in situations that require anything other than a neutral facial expression.

Its probably one of the easier facial expressions for me.

This means I often smile when people say I shouldn't.

Also I am naturally trusting and friendly with people until they let me down ~ I don't know of any other way to be.

Chamoisee wrote: "I don't hate them, but I have an innate distrust of such people. I am far more comfortable around people once I have seen them irritated or angry."

[NT] people who smile may be nice and safe or may be devious and unsafe, but angry NTs are more likely to be showing you the real person. I distrust smarmy, smiling people as I cannot "find" the "edge" of their Selves and will start probing and digging at them to find the real person. I would rather know a person who is irritable and has "edges" than have anything to do with a person who has no "edges" or boundaries and just "flows' like blancmange or custard.

Jim Crawford.

I'm not annoyed by smiling unless it seems "fake".

At the college I go to their is a girl whom persistently smiles and acts hyperactive. I sometimes am hyperactive, but I have never been accussed of smiling to much.
Well this girl, seems to be mad. She had no cigarettes and approaches me smiling and begging for a fag. I mean if you really need a smoke your not best pleased, so that seemed odd.
Well the conculsion I've came to is that she is like that, as she smokes menthol cigarettes, nearly all whom smoke menthols strike me as emotional charlatans.
My reasoning is due to these cigarretes being far less hostile and less likely to make you vomit. Therfore if you want to credabilitty of a smoker, yet you don't want the antisocial taste and the abrasive caress of a Richmond you opt. for a lighter choice.

Well any way, people who smile persistently really murder me, as they begin to preach smiling and make me feel dreadful because I'm not smiling.
Like teachers, who at primary school who used to tell me to smile all the time. Or my Maths GCSE teacher who says crap like 'Smile maths is fun...'

Oh and these people make me feel on edge, can they not see the imperfection in their enviroment, and other people? Surely that is enouth to make you surley...

Only when there a teacher, I used to have a math teacher that was always smiling and its like you could tell in her mind she was thinking "I hate your ****ing guts go aways now" but she would still be smiling, any teacher like that I hate.

I find it more patronising. Especially if people tell you to smile, as it's fundamentally communicating ''I'm happy, you should be too''.
And I really hate that, as usally I am happy then people tell me to lighten-up or 'chill-out' and I wonder why. Because I am usally 'chilled', but nearly everyone would suggest I'm not.
I hate it.

When I was in junior high, I had this really hyper friend (who was mentally disabled)who would smile constantly and it would annoy me and fill me with rage and to make it worse, she had really ugly teeth and impacted canine teeth.

Until one summer, when I was at Chuck E. Cheese's with my family, I didn't expect her to be there, I was so unsuspecting and then, when I was near the skeeball games she suddenly jumped out at me and I was so surprised, I was acctually scared. I wanted to scream, but I didn't.

And then she just says "Hello, Samantha." With her stupid smile, which scared me even more. And to make things even worse she says in a childish manner, which just plain spooked me "I didn't know YOU were gonna be here." (Well, neither did I) So, I was so scared, I even felt sick, but I didn't show it. So I ditched her without her knowing it and when I was hiding, I could see she was looking for me.

That experience left me with depression for about a month (I had to take medication for it) and I was 13 at the time.

It doesnt annoy me, as much as it makes me fell paranoid/concerned about their mental state. Often when people smile at me for no reason(as far as i know) i think they are laughing at me for some reason unknown to me, and this makes me very paranoid. I often react coldly to this kind of behaviour which is probably a mistake as it is probably designed to be friendly.

It bugs the living crap out of me. you feel like you always have to do a fakey smile back even if you are in an awful mood!

Hi,
Yeah, people who smile a lot might be creepy...I smile a lot...I hope I don't freak anyone out, but your post made me wonder about it! I often notice absurdity and silliness in life and I find all kinds of stuff humorous all day long. I am amused about being a human being, all these roles we need to play in life...at times the roles converge, or, for me, I feel like I have to switch them off back and forth all day long. It's weird and I'm smiling and I'm creepy! I'm a "smiler"....uh-oh...Still, a constant smile seems unnatural. A video diary could be used to study such a person...are they REALLY smiling all day long? Hmmm.