Anyone else have a consistently blank facial expression?

[Volatile]

i do. I think that is a big part of my inability to be social.

I've been isolated for long stretches of time over the past decade and it's like Ive lost my facial expressions due to never using them. I try and fake smile when I talk to others but I don't think it's working.

 

[QueenEtna]

I have a resting bitch face, I always look angry which leads people to ask me whats wrong but most of the time nothing is.

 

[BaconCheeseburger]

I have resting bitch face. I'm not incapable of facial expressions but I conserve energy by being as plain as possible.

 

[blood orange]

Yes. For me, I fail to display an appropriate emotional response. So my face is the same but I also don't express myself appropriately.

Example: Someone tells joke (bad or unfunny) I just stare at them blank faced. Idk why I can't bring myself to smile or at least nod. I'm just waiting for the interaction to end.

 

[Wantingpeace]

I have something wrong with frontal lobe. I often feel my facial expression totally frozen

 

[SomeGuyDK]

On average I look dead inside, but forced to fake a smile, so people won't resent me and treat me worse.

 

[wiIIow]

dude yes. It's a frustrating issue for me because I feel such strong emotions, and I always feel like I am expressing myself but I'm told that I am usually totally expressionless. I feel like I never really learned how to appropriately display my emotions outwardly due to being reclusive my entire life, and being conditioned to hold everything inside out of fear of repercussions. It sucks man. even therapists have been shocked when I describe the turbulent and agonising feelings inside, because I keep it together so well on the outside.

"but you seem so chill"

yeah... so chill... tell that to my horrifically high resting bpm lol. or maybe it's the near constant dissociation that does it... who knows.