Would everyone please start smiling in their pictures?

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Sounds like fun millie! I'd love to go shopping with you! (except I'd hate if attention was drawn to me as a result) lol!

my animal sounds in the supermarked are like a strange reaction to sensory ovrload stuff or crowds or something. i don;t understand. i just do these things.

but my son tells me i am weird but fun.

you can always walk five steps to the side, you know.....i wouldn;t take offence....

You've just perfectly described my smiling habits.

People tell me that my facial expression usually looks rather grim, as if I am really displeased with something. I hardly ever am. Most of the time I feel pretty good inside. But I guess I don't often look it.

Smiling always feels forced, fake and awkward, unless I am really deeply laughing.

I remember one time, about 10 years ago, I was at the dentist's office, and he was assessing the alignment of my teeth for the possibility of dental surgery. The exchange was frustrating and ironically funny:

He comes in and says, "OK, smile for me."
I smile a big huge toothy fake smile.
He says, "No, no. Just smile naturally."
I give what I think is a more restrained, natural smile.
He hesitates, then says, "Uh, no that's not it. You know, just smile naturally."
I try again, attempting to move my mouth into what I think an acceptable natural smile could possibly look like.
He looks puzzled. "Um... no, like this..."
He smiles and tries to show me what he means.
I give my best imitation.
Clearly impatient, he says, "OK, that's fine, let's take a look here..."
and proceeds to inspect the subtleties of my smile.

It's amazing looking back on that now

yes, but you, Acacia and also Glider18 are so obviously AS to me - i hope my bluntness did not offend as you two are two of my WP friends.
I know just how fully you experience your AS , because we all relate..we have different presentations - but there is no doubt you guys share an intensity that is so much a part of AS that it is just fundamental to who you are. i am making a judgement there - unababshedly i suppose. BUt i get tired sometimes. i think i am a little frayed or even fried at present.

i am a little cranky today....and so i get the s**ts with people who i cannot relate to because they seem so friggin cushy and normal. grumpy today i suppose. maybe that is jealousy because things seem so tough sometimes and unfathomable

a bit going on.....

speak soon

a Jeff Bridges thing going on there NQ?

Dunno. How so?

People (random ones I don't even know sometimes) tell me to, "Smile!" or even worse, "Cheer up! Might never happen."

How dare they tell me that? Why do they care? What business is it of theirs if I smile or not? Might never happen?! Maybe it already had, did they ever think of that? Grrrrrrrr!

I will smile in photos but as I try to avoid being photographed, there aren't that many about, so you won't see me posted up here, smiling or otherwise.

Will this do?

oh i just thought there was a facial resemblance there.

I can smile naturally for a brief moment. What I can't do is hold the expression while the person taking the picture proceeds to fiddle with the camera. The camera always captures the tail end of my smile attempt, the part where my facial muscles are beginning to strain. Always turns out looking all weird and squinty, like a creepy pedo-smile. Please don't tell me to smile until you're about to snap the shot damn it! Either that or I'm not going to smile at all.

One thing I noticed is that all my parents pictures of me from before the age of 8 show me smiling. Somehow I unlearned the ability as I got older.

OK, so the cartoon calls some of it's biggest supporters HYPOCRITES!

I agree, NICE picture!

BOY, you would do ANYTHING to speak against the germans. I have heard that a LOT of french people put tourists in a kind of paradox where they do NOT like those that don't speak french, hate those that don't speak PERFECT french, and generally hate Americans. ALSO, I have heard from SEVERAL sources that Jamaicans are generally RACIST! They hate whites. While I am at it, some people might even consider Italians to all be mobsters, even though that clearly isn't true. They just had some hard times, and some organized and went overboard. Because they only trust the old ways, they stand out, and become pretty famous. Frankly, the italian friends I have had seemed nice. For the record, the french ones did also. I never knew any jamaicans long enough to judge.

As for Germans, they are supposed to generally keep to themselves, and treasure privacy. What is really wrong with that?

Hale Bopp,

PLEASE don't take this as an insult, because it ISN'T one.

You look a LOT nicer in the one where you are smiling. In fact, let's just say you look NICE. For once, NQ and I can agree, and I AM straight.

Give me a break. It is NOT that simple. In fact, I think some peoples mouths just don't move that way. The most I can generally do is a GRIN. To do anything else just seems off.

i just knew you would look like a totally cool guy, NQ.