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[GlyphGryph]

Hmm.

This could actually be fun.  I could ask members to take photos of them looking [EMOTION], you guys get polled for which is the best example, and then I draw it.

I am a terrible artist, but it could be kind of hilarious.

Sounds fun to me. ^_^

Once you've got the hang of it, we could name an emotion and you could try to draw it without reference - or you draw an emotion and we try to name it?

[Bauglir]

I'm on board. Will beards confound the issue? Who can say.

[MaximumZero]

Hmm.

This could actually be fun.  I could ask members to take photos of them looking [EMOTION], you guys get polled for which is the best example, and then I draw it.

I am a terrible artist, but it could be kind of hilarious.

Sounds fun to me. ^_^

Once you've got the hang of it, we could name an emotion and you could try to draw it without reference - or you draw an emotion and we try to name it?

I'm in.

[Steelmagic]

Sounds good to me.

[Descan]

Why not!

... I just need to show emotion.

You know, beyond lechery.

[Vector]

Sounds fun to me. ^_^

Once you've got the hang of it, we could name an emotion and you could try to draw it without reference - or you draw an emotion and we try to name it?

Yeah, that could be cool!  I'll put it on my to-do list.  Thread should pop up in a couple days.

I don't really have trouble reading people, but sometimes people get really frustrated because they say they can't read me.  I'm normally very dry.  Use very little body language and force myself to use facial expressions.  Text is my preferred method of communication.  When I want to say anything really important, I'll do it in writing.

Haha.

I have two gears.  One is very easy to understand ("almost creepy happiness").  The other one is apparently impossible for most people to decipher, but my friend-who-knows-me-best says it's "something is out of place in the universe."  It's not sad, it's not frustrated, it's not angry... it's aesthetic disgust or similar.  Yup.

[Steelmagic]

Why not!

... I just need to show emotion.

You know, beyond lechery.

You mean there are other emotions? Shit.

[Rose]

I'm not sure how well I'd do with that.

"This is me feeling meh"

"This is me feeling meh while trying to look happy"

[SalmonGod]

I'm not sure how well I'd do with that.

"This is me feeling meh"

"This is me feeling meh while trying to look happy"

So... you are your avatar?

I have two gears.  One is very easy to understand ("almost creepy happiness").  The other one is apparently impossible for most people to decipher, but my friend-who-knows-me-best says it's "something is out of place in the universe."  It's not sad, it's not frustrated, it's not angry... it's aesthetic disgust or similar.  Yup.

I don't know if it's creepy or not, but I typically have a default smile on whenever I'm interacting with people, unless they're people I know really well.  I used to have that default smile on almost all the time, up until a few years ago.  I think that was part of that social invisibility thing I've mentioned a few times.

[Descan]

Well he does have those luscious red curls~

[Vector]

Yeah, no, this is creepy because it comes off kind of mad science.  My mom says I have a Totoro face, if that clarifies anything (my dad says I have a shit-eating grin).

I know some people like you, though.  I never understood how to get along with a person with a flat affect who wasn't spectrumy.  For the spectrumy people, I just use it as license not to look at their faces and let myself relax.  For other people... I just don't know what to do.  Am I supposed to solicit information?  Am I supposed to leave you alone?  Why are you there if I'm supposed to leave you alone?

That sort of situation.

[Max White]

Eh, if t is any consolation I have a horrific smile. Always end up looking a little insane, and by a little I mean The Joker ain't got nothing. I just don't smile anymore, instead smirking. My 'happy' is very easily and regularly confused with 'well that was a pretty entertaining display of stupidity'

[SalmonGod]

Yeah, no, this is creepy because it comes off kind of mad science.  My mom says I have a Totoro face, if that clarifies anything.

You make it sound awesome

I know some people like you, though.  I never understood how to get along with a person with a flat affect who wasn't spectrumy.  For the spectrumy people, I just use it as license not to look at their faces and let myself relax.  For other people... I just don't know what to do.  Am I supposed to solicit information?  Am I supposed to leave you alone?  Why are you there if I'm supposed to leave you alone?

That sort of situation.

Anything important, I state in the most precise and literal fashion I can.  I don't really expect to be read.  In fact, it can be really frustrating for me when people try.  I run into situations often enough where people try to read into the things that I say and make assumptions, when I stated everything flat out.  I'm told I miss a lot of things, too, because I expect other people to communicate in the same manner.

[Descan]

Oooooh yes. I hate people "reading between the lines". Almost as much as I hate being expected to do it myself.

I love how Nick is plain-spoken, as are most of my friends. Tend to lose the ones who aren't~ Either by training them or by them or I cancelling the friendship due to lost communication. No skin off my nose~

[Solifuge]

My facial expressions tend to be way over-exaggerated, because I had to teach myself to make them. Also, my eyebrows are crazy, and tend to hop all over the place, often independently of one another. Peeps tend to find it comical.

On the subject of facial expressions, is anyone really innately programmed to know what facial expressions mean, and how to make them? Or is it all something we either learn or don't? I know babies can smile, but I've always figured they were just mimicking what they saw on others faces, because it gets them a desirable end (IE. positive attention).

Babies are psychologically akin to sociopaths.