Does ur neutral face look angry?

[nightwalker]

yes people keep wondering why i'm so angry all the time but im just like wtf im not!

[Still Waters]

I've begun to realize that I'm so focused on what I'm doing when I'm out- trying not to notice others ( out of fear they're looking at me).- I tend to look angry-the other day I was out shopping and a mom with two kids was near me.- She looked over at me and immediately told her kids to quiet down.- They were'nt even being loud,but I think I looked really ticked off. - In stores I get asked a lot if I need help-I think I look lost and or worried.

[ShinAkuma]

I hate people that smile too much.

[wassubie]

i can't count how many times people have asked me "why don't you smile?" or "why do you look so sad?" I dunno, i'm just not a smiley person, even when I'm not that depressed. I imagine it's pretty off-putting to others.

[Conquistador]

Huh. I had this problem for years as well but now realizing it's an SAD thing. I get people all the time saying "you need a gf" etc. All throughout middle and high school i had this permanently mean look on my face. Maybe it stems from feeling tense all the time due to the s.a.?

[espearite]

Yeah, I suspected I look mad when I am neutral at times. A bf told me that I looked mad in a picture I gave him once. It didn't help my esteem or self-conscious any.

[ShyViolet]

I think more often I look scared or depressed.

[LALoner]

Originally Posted by Some Russian Guy

when I see a cute girl passing by
I automatically look away in anger.
I don't know why, can someone explain it to me ?

Because your parents were psychologically invasive and your childhood revolved around maintaining psychological independence by withdrawing from the real world into an inner world your parents couldn't invade. And you learned to become reflexively hostile to any attempt to invade that precious space within you where you could be free. Your most important tool in maintaining this private space was keeping secrets. Without your secrets you would lose your psychological independence and your parents would invade every part of your mind and destroy your soul.

So when you see a pretty girl you feel all these things inside and feel the urge to display these feelings with the way you look and talk and so on. Because of your childhood you view these feelings inside you as being similar to your parents attempts to psychologically invade your soul. And you see anything which would give away your attraction as a threat to your main source of protection and independence, the keeping of secrets.

So the very things which kept your soul alive during a difficult childhood are now killing the soul you worked so hard to protect. Welcome to the club.

[blueblu]

Not angry but I have been told I look sad. While that is sometimes the case, I'm usually just tired (combined with boredom if at work).

[whiterabbit]

Originally Posted by pupper

yes! I'm glad I'm not the only one, at least once a week a complete stranger will say "smile, it's not that bad", "you know it's not against the law to smile", or "what's wrong?!". It always happens when I least expect it to (buying something at the mall, eating a meal, talking to a customer at work) and it just makes me sad because I think I'm having a good time going about my business while the rest of the world is thinking "why is that girl so angry?!".

Yeah, that happens to me quite frequently too, and it surprises me every time because I don't mean to look so pissed off all the time. I'm used to random people I'm walking past in the street telling me to "smile, it can't be that bad" (well how do they know? I might have just come from a funeral or something), but from time to time there are also those who like to shout it from buses and cars, and one guy even stuck his head out of a cafe window to tell me to smile! I honestly don't know what goes through these people's minds. I would never in a million years tell a random stranger to smile. But I suppose it's quite nice in a way that they bother to say anything. It's just nice to be noticed at all sometimes. It doesn't really bother me that much anyway. On the list of people who bother me in the street, the people who tell me to smile rank among the least annoying.

And whenever I'm told to smile I always do because I am a performing monkey.

[Hippo]

Originally Posted by Solo

Do u look angry even when u're not? My biggest SA issue is that I look angry all the time so I send the wrong non-verbal messages.

yes, one guy wanted to fight me because he thought I was giving him threatening looks. I had to explain that it was just the way my face looks. It took some effort to convince him.

[cheerio]

^ Lol. Those kind of people need more therapy than us, seriously.

I've been told to smile on a few occasions, but mostly because they see me when I'm bored or stressed out (or when I have anxiety, but they just don't know it). If I walk pass someone I usually give a casual smile, but I have a feeling my smile doesn't look as convincing as I think it looks. I think it's all in the eyes, really. When I'm truly happy or just finished laughing I can tell my eyes have that "smiley" look, and give off a happy or cheerful vibe; basically, it makes my actual smile look more convincing. I guess the moral of the story is: smile not just with your lips, but with your eyes as well.

[citizen_erased]

I think my neutral face looks sad cos i've had people me tell me i look sad when i'm not and ask if i'm ok for no reason. The trouble is this has made me quite self conscious about how my face looks when it's neutral.

[Hadron]

Nah, definitely not angry. I don't think i really show that much emotion to the outside world in fact. I could be happy, sad, in pain, angry etc, but on the outside i look completely and utterly emotionless. There was even a time once whilst playing football when i twisted my ankle quite badly. All i did was sit on the grass and say "i think i'm injured". I swear, my face was completely neutral! Someone on the team even commented and said that "you never show how you feel".

The most someone could ever get out of me, i think, is a little smile if something really funny was said. But really, that's as far as it goes.

[listenjusting]

I either look depressed or I'm having a lot of trouble suppressing a smile.

[Zeddicus]

I'd say it does. Nowhere near as angry-looking as my real angry face, though.

[416girl]

At times, I guess. I had a random transit-guy once suggest to me that I should smile, and another one ask me if I was "vex" with him. Who are these people?

Was also asked by a woman I worked with not too long ago, if 'everything was okay' because she thought I looked mad/upset about something. (I wasn't )

[1ShyGuy]

I look sad all the time, hate cameras n people. i was even asked by a kid "why do you look sad all the time?" just makes me more sad. I was even once asked iif i was in pain wtf? When I try to smile i just feel like I'm falling apart, so i just stick with sad or angry,angry is usually better

[MavenMI6Agent009]

I look hopeless

[strawberryjulius]

I was walking up the stairs to my bus stop and the ticket man said "Come on, it's not that bad. You could be married to me." I thought it was funny, but I had no idea I looked like I was sad. Apparently I look like I'm worried all the time, but that's probably true.