I can sort of feel your pain.

All my life, people have snapped at me, "Smile!" as if it's an order.

Or they have said, "You need to smile more."

I always thought, "What does the baring of one's teeth have to do with how I'm feeling inside?"

But I love to laugh and I love to make other people laugh.

So I guess there is a disconnect somewhere in me.

The therapist that my son saw years ago for ADHD tried to diagnose him with Asperger's and told me one of the reasons was his lack of emotions.

He has lots of emotions. He's just nervous talking to some freakazoid woman with a brown bob who talked to grown-ups like grown-ups, and then turned to talk to him in a baby voice even though he was a teenager.