Expressive People Are Visually/Auditorily Offensive

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I'm talking about people who have very intense, obvious facial expressions and lots of changes in intonation when they speak.

For example, someone who expresses happiness with a huge, toothy grin that makes wrinkles around her eyes instead of just a smile. It's disturbing to look at, like the amount of detail in their faces is overwhelming.

The voices I dislike are mostly female voices. It seems that womyn's voices go up and down in pitch more dramatically than men's voices, and it distracts me from focusing on what they are saying.

My favorite youtuber is cycleofsilence because he has flat affect and flat prosody. That helps me to focus on what he's saying. His voice is soothing.

Anybody experience the same thing?

I prefer calm voices as well. People with a lot of vocal inflection hurt my ears.

But I don't have a problem with people smiling, since that's the only facial expression I can recognize, and at least I know they mean well. It's the neutral/flat/bored/angry expressions that I can't tell apart, and they confuse me.

Yes, some people definitely seem to me to go way too far with what I perceive as exaggerated laughter and animations over run-of-the-mill funnies. However, I know one person who actually needs to do that a bit in order to relieve a bit of sorrow, so I usually just bear it silently.

They indeed do overact at times! I find it absolutely distracting, especially when the pitch of a voice changes mid-sentence, or there seem to be 500 different facial expressions at once.

Yes, especially some comedians like this such as Robin Williams... sorry Robin... and Steve Martin. I don't care for the excessive physical comedy and find it super annoying. Strangely I thought Jim Carey was funny.

I know the kind of smiles you're talking about-those big, obviously fake, smiles that seem to expose huge teeth. These people look as though they have twice as many teeth than the norm. Most of these people have nothing to smile about.

Overly intense people do bother me, but morose flat-affect type speakers bring me down. Ideally, people should have enough life in their voices that they don't sound completely robotic, but they shouldn't be histrionic, either. Overly intense, high voices (usually female) and droning, John McEnroe voices that put me to sleep are equally annoying to me.

No, I was talking about genuine expression. But I find fake expressiveness annoying as well.