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Originally Posted by angelicgoldfish05
I've also heard how those with BPD (or perhaps it was depression or something similar) read negative connotations or meanings into neutral faces or expressions. It's like you expect others to be hostile at some point, or at least negative and hurtful and rejecting towards you. So then it is very difficult to be in relationships because it is very difficult to trust the other person.
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That is true. I actually wrote to Dr. Anthony C. Ruocco who published a recent study about that for BPD. BPD people tend to read expressions more negatively than what they are. It's very similar to Prosopagnosia (face blindness). It isn't face blindness which is common in autism and Schizophrenia, but it's like a blindness to expressions.