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Originally Posted by erraticpendulum
I have 'blunted affect' grew up lacking facial expression.
As a child i was forever asked "whats wrong?" it annoyed me but angered my parents because they were expected to answer. I was often punished because of it, not understanding why or what i had done wrong. My parents said i was purposly refusing to smile and they were sick of it. Also the reoccuring 'i ruined photo' scenerio. Its hard to smile when you already thought you had been and harder to not think somethings wrong with you when asked daily.
Today there is not one photo of me smiling
And people still comment 'cheer up' and 'i look too serious'.
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I'd be sorely tempted to say "---- off" to the next person who told me to 'cheer up." Almost every family photo that was ever snapped was taken as and/or right after my mother railed against me for this that and everything. To this day I will not willingly pose for photos. Did I mention that after the photos were developed I had to listen to my mother tell me how awful I looked in every shot? And then she railed at me for not smiling when she was telling me how awful I looked in every photo. I'm getting sick just thinking about it. Sorry.