

My husband calls it my "panic face," heh.

It tends to come on when I'm especially anxious. When my wife noticed it really upset her because I'm creepy good at it, but she knows me to be maniacally ethical and now that she's noticed how I've been treated before she understands.Īlthough I'm not diagnosed with ASD (my son is, and I have wondered about myself off and on), I do have PTSD and definitely have a flat affect at times. It's easier to mask all the way like I'm not even me than it is to modify myself, idk how else to explain it, it's not that I'm telling big lies or even benefitting from them at all, but I am telling tiny inconsequential and impossible to verify ones almost all the time because then my mannerisms become what I imagine they would be like instead of trying to imagine how I'm supposed to feel when I know for a fact I actually don't feel anything at all.

It's because they weren't filling in your blank emotional cues with their own bullshit, customers are business relationships where they need whatever you are selling or providing, when people have an option or discretion then they punish us, bosses move into a personal level of rapport so it's open season.īest trick I have found is to lie almost compulsively.
