Facial Expression Don't Match Emotions??

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my face does this as well.

Exactly! I get called hostile or angry when I am happy at work and everywhere. I get told to smile but for every time I have been told I had a 'nice' smile, I have been told my smile is 'malicious' 'mocking' or ' misplaced' (inappropriate) at least a hundred times. When I called to ER the night after my car wreck, I was told I did not get the promised pain medication because I "Showed no evidence of being in pain." Took four months of excruciating pain to get drugs that help leading to: anxious and 'depressed' and getting more drugs to mess up my head.

I find that I have a tendency to send out nonverbal signals indicating
"don't talk to me". Which is often my attitude, feeling like I really don't want to talk with strangers. But sometimes I want to be friendly and no matter how much I smile or make eye contact, strangers still avoid talking to me. It's like something about my demeanor turns people off even before I've opened my mouth. Maybe I come across as "fake" when I smile and people sense that I'm "acting".

Someone recently told me that my laugh sometimes sounds like a movie villain psycho's forced laugh.

Yes my face betrays me just as often. My husband is finally getting used to "what is displayed as an emoticon is not necessarily a brain-icon," finally! It was like a what?!? what? what! What do you mean what?!? Now that we're learning and i'm diagnosed, he knows for sure not to get anxious. Peace at last.

The wrong planet gets it!

Have you considered a career as a professional Poker player ? ?

Once, when I was eleven or so, I've been offended once in a while by someone besides Asperger's Syndrome. Nice guy, but bad judge of character. I frowned like anyone in a movie would, but he took it as a goofy face. That's when I learned the hard way that some need words to learn feelings as opposed to visual signs.

I think my bigger problem for me has always been I do express how I feel, but people don't like my emotions, because they are not the way I am supposed to feel about something (for instance, you are not supposed to put the fun in funeral) So as I result I either make attempts to hide my feelings, and when that doesn't work I just pretend like I have aspergers so they don't get on my case about being "evil"

My husband said he thought he could hide his emotions from me just by changing his body posture and expressions, but I told him no, that I can feel him and his thoughts even when he doesn't talk about them. I can sense when he is upset about something.

I allways think at that times, I am expressing emotions with my face, but I have to force my face into a emotion. My expression on my face, I call nutral. But most call it sad. I am a OPTIMIST! I don't get most of humanity...

I used to be asked all the time, "What's wrong, you look so angry/sad," when I felt like I was being neutral. Now, when I'm neutral, people think that I'm thinking intensely--which is quite opposite when my face goes neutral, my thoughts are nowhere at all.