"You never seem to smile. What's wrong?"
Nothing. My neutral expression is sort of a Rorschach test and, yes, I don't smile that much and here's why, courtesy of Basic Instructions (I'm going to have this printed and laminated so I can hand it out to casual acquaintances):
Don't think I'm not thinking similar thoughts, by the way.
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My polite smile makes me look like I just jammed shit up my left nostril. If I try to even open my mouth and smile it looks like pornface, which of course means Ceasar Romero as The Joker.
Yes, I suffer from this affliction also. When I was much younger, I think I wanted to be taken seriously (don't all fat kids?) so I had a tendency to try to look "intense", furrowed brow and all that. Now the furrows are permanent. When I think I have a slight smile on my face I check it in the mirror only to discover that, nope, I have the facial set of a near scowl. People come up out of the blue and say "smile!", and my attitude is "I AM smiling!" I'd like to put on a Clown at Midnight grimace and see how they like that!
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