Hostile to Smiles

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I've noticed that I can't stand to look at pictures of people with very large smiles. The type with their mouth open. They look extremely smug and stupid to me and I find myself becoming angry merely by looking at them. Even simple formations that remotely look like a smiling mouth will inspire a hostile reaction. Especially ": )" or this one:

I don't really have it when looking at smiling people normally, i.e. not on pictures. Can anyone relate?

(My avatar does not give me this reaction, oddly enough. Otherwise I'd not have chosen it.)

yeah, smiles, especially large ones, fall into the uncanny valley for me, the bigger it is, the more unsettling and disturbing it becomes.

Someone taught me to smile properly when I was in my late twenties. Never occurred to me before, a smile can actually get a lot done, socially . Some people tell me I have nice smile. I hope I do not look like a cavernous, open mouthed type, because that is from experience, irritating.

I think there are a few stages below the media image smile . It's the area where a smile should be calibrated.

Maybe media images are over calibrated because they need to catch the attention of the observer, rather than communicate a human feeling. That is why they are fake and much money is spent on teeth whitening and they wear make-up. Perhaps this is taken on board by wide mouth smilers and they try to imitate it ?

A good question to ask is where does real smile end and a fake one begin?

Since you're only 15 I'd put it down to your aggressive male hormones and puberty making you a typical teenage male.

I am mostly bothered by smiles that seem fake or when someone is smiling while they are being total jerks. My sister has an obnoxious habit of plastering on a big fake smile and blinking her eyes really fast when she says something hateful about someone. I try not to look at her when she does that.

I don't like it when people smile either. I don't like it when people smile at me. My lizard looks like she is smiling now and then. But there is nothing threatning about it. Perhaps I have such a dislike of smiling humans because when other kids bullied me they were often times smiling as they hurt or insulted me. I soon learned to interpret smiles as threats and if someone innocenly smiled at me I would smack them. When questioned why I hit them I would reply, "Because s/he was smiling!" I was always told you could tell I was autistic from photographs of me. My eyes apparently had a "blank" look to them and the smile was fake. With being forced to wear extremely uncomfortable clothes and sit in an unnatural position it was all I could do to even fake a smile. Why is it required for one to smile in photographs? I quit smiling for pictures after I saw my brothers' milatary photographs. I always felt it wasn't a true protrail of me when I smiled for a photograph. I not only looked fake I felt fake. My parents seem to like the school pictures where I am not smiling the best. Perhaps if the camera people didn't get so bitchy about how I was supposed to sit and if I was allowed to be more relaxed it would have been an even better pic of me.

I don't mind it, when people smile, but I feel that they must have a genuine reason to smile, or else their smiles annoy me.

i love whole-face smiles, where the eyes are smiling along with the mouth, and there are smile-lines about the mouth and crow's feet in the eye corners. i hate mirthless sociopathic smiles which are just about the mouth - these are the fake smiles you see politicians and tv personalities showing off their megabuck cosmetic dental work with.

I'm not really hostile toward smiles. It's just that I can tell a fake smile from a real smile, and I see a lot of young women, sporting fake smiles. The types of smiles that the girls at the factory put on, years ago.

I can tell a fake and smug smile as well. I despise them. Sometimes I wish I could slap it right off of some people's face. I do love sincere smiles when someone's whole face lights up and even their eyes are smiling (like I believe AuntBlabby mentioned in her comment). I have never been able to make a fake smile. In almost all of my pictures, I'm slightly or subtly smiling or not smiling at all. I do have a couple of pictures where I am playing with my dog and I'm smiling but I had no idea the picture was being taken. I prefer to use the rather than the because it reminds me of a fake or smug smile too. I have gotten use to using and over the last couple of months. I had no idea someone else felt the same and thought it was just me being weird yet again.

Smiles annoy me, mainly because I have been trained to reciprocate and I dislike doing so. Even when I find something pleasant or funny, a slight smirk is the only thing that feels natural. I am also required to smile all day at work...it is tedious.