Unintentionally giving people weird looks

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My "resting face" is pretty blank, which is fine, but I sometimes apparently accidentally signal disagreement or disapproval with my face when I'm just thinking and listening, which causes problems in meetings at work.

It doesn't happened as much now, but a few years ago my coworkers would seem to always ask me if I was okay when I was just fine. It seems neutral expressions are seen in a very negative way. It would be a little strange to constantly have a smile on your face though.

I do this too sometimes, but I try to make a conscious effort not to. Sometimes people think that I'm looking at them when I'm just looking at something else in their direction. I just know because I would here them complain that they thought I was staring at them.

I don't know how my facial expressions look, but people 'read' them wrong all the time. Like I can be feeling good and think I'm reacting positively to someone, but they think I am bored or annoyed at them. When people point it out I start getting self conscious about it and probably pull even stranger expressions just to try 'appear' happier or whatever. I can tell I frown a lot with my eyebrows, but its mainly because I'm concentrating or thinking, not that I'm angry.

Been this way all my life, I remember kids in kindergarten asking why I was so angry or sad or whatever when. I try to smile more now but it's terrible & obviously forced, I don't even want to think about what others have thought of me. Mean mug all the time, I am sure at school people think poorly of me which is why nobody ever talks to me. Wearing sunglasses helps a bit.

This is a well-known phenomenon called "resting b***h face".