I sound/look serious a lot. Anyone else?

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Even when I'm not mad and just saying something that is really not serious, I just sound serious and have a serious face when I speak. The only time that this does not happen is when I'm saying something that I find really funny, I would say that with a smile. But anything else I just sound serious like if I have an attitude but I really don't and I think people get a bit bothered by that. I just have a hard time sounding enthusiastic. Even when I try, it just sounds so fake and unnatural and it almost sounds like I'm trying to mock some preppy white girl from school.

I think I come across as "serious" as well. People always think I'm very prim and proper when they first meet me.

People are always telling me I look angry, even when I'm not.

i'm seriously serious. my husband says i'm hard to read and sometimes just wishes i would smile. i at least try to smile back at him when he smiles at me.

All the time. The tone of my voice rarely fluctuates and my facial expressions are nonexistent, save for occasional smirks. This, combined with the fact that I use sarcasm very frequently, tends to confuse people.

Yes, I sometimes look serious. even though the inside feeling says otherwise.

I used to get this all the time. Strangely enough, once I passed 40 nobody cared if I was perky.

Just a few weeks ago some friends/acquaintances described me as "stoic." I guess that isn't too far off from "serious."

Can you imagine having one facial expression all your life and it looks like your frowning, but you're not? Add that your surrounded by a bunch of mindless extroverts who scream in your ear, "WHY DON'T YOU SMILE??! ! and you've got me.
This is how I think I look:
This is what people see:

I was just dx. I didn't understand why people would tell me all the time I don't smile or ask me if I was all right or if I felt okay. I smile but people can't see it. Funny, all the times I have looked at myself in the mirror and I know I am making a smile, but apparently just not to others. I could make my friends laugh, I'm mean tears, rolling around on the floor, and if you asked them to describe me they'd say I was "serious" because I don't smile. Add to that the "social blindness" and they say I'm stuck up. Now, when I meet people I just apologize ahead of time.

you mumble, I speak up, why are you so serious?

Same as Jeff and Postmaster - everyone says i look angry or serious. All the time.
Have started trimming the ends off my eyebrows - this helps.
Now people are telling me i look bored.
Im going to draw on a smile 2morrow.

Yes I do look and sound serious, I don't smile a lot, and I can look grumpy at times. Having forehead lines from scrunching my forehead while thinking and reading doesn't help with that either. I've also been told I have an expressionless face and a cold stare sometimes.

When I moved into this new houseshare I told the others that I can look unfriendly at times but I don't mean to. I also explained about me not making eye contact and getting lost in my book to the extent it looks like I'm ignoring whoever walked in, when the truth is I don't see them! They've all been really accepting and we're all friends now so it has worked.

I look serious and often sound serious as well. I got the nickname "Stone Face" awhile back, and I think it fits me well due to having a frozen like serious look on my face in many situations.