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I have difficulty showing some emotions on my face. This doesn't mean I don't feel them, I just don't know how to express some things. Would someone mind giving me a few pointers as to what they recognize as these emotions?
Gratitude is the hardest one. I can be so grateful and just be thinking about how wonderful and thoughtful someone is, then I have no idea how to show them without coming off as sarcastic. I will say that I am grateful, but I don't know how to make my face loograteful, so some people think it's inauthentic. I have no clue with this one.
Kind of in the same vein is excitement. I feel excited at lot and I tend to express it ways that feel normal to me, but that involves jumping and moving a lot and not a lot of facial expressions. I have been trying to get by with just raising my eyebrows (aka what I do every time I can't figure out how to react because people interpret it any way they want).
And finally, grief. I know not everyone feels grief in the same way, but I think there's a base amount of connection I'm missing when I express grief. Today I was talking to a girl who had someone in her life pass away, and I was very genuinely upset for her and the person. But when I comforted her my face was straight and I couldn't figure out how to connect with her.
Thanks, I don't really know why this is so hard for me sometimes, but I'm kind of done not knowing how to have these interactions.
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Most people I'm close with understand that I don't always express emotion in the same way. The only way to communicate gratitude is normally just saying I'm grateful with a straight face. Excitement is normally jumping around and shaking my hands. Grief is normally just spacing out or being clingy. People who love me understand that.
It's just the other people, the teachers and distant family members and strangers who have trouble reading my feelings and get thrown off by it. Thanks for your tips!
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