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Too many youtubers do the whole expression changing thing. Maybe he worked in retail. I worked at a grocery store for ten years. I never smiled for photos, I never smiled for visiting relatives, smiling feels stupid and takes more effort and energy than I can be bothered to muster. But I did the whole fake smile and "can I help you with anything sir/ma'am?" bullshit for a decade.

Because I didn't want to move in with my family again and there are few things I wouldn't have done during that time to leave that miserable city. It's been 15 years since then. I'm not happy, but then, I can't remember ever being happy. I'm nowhere near as miserable as I was then.

But I don't smile, or cry, or get angry, or any of that. And I never did. Except when I had to play the role of a happy upbeat helpful employee and smile all day, day in and day out.

People don't naturally show emotions. It's taught to you as a child. And if you fail to learn like I did, people don't like you very much and life will be hard. Just look at animals. They don't show any emotion. Only we do, because somebody at some time thought we needed to have a visual language to broadcast how you're feeling at any given time.

It's reached the point where people who don't smile or laugh or show disgust are considered sociopathic and abnormal, when the reality is that they are the only ones who actually ARE normal anymore. You didn't come out of the womb thinking in English. Is it that hard to believe you didn't come out of the womb with "non-verbal communication" as part of your mental wiring? Do you think if you went back in time 10,000 years, that anybody would instinctively understand what it meant when you nod your head up and down, gave a thumbs up, or flashed the peace sign or even the middle finger?

It's hard to comprehend because it has been so deeply embedded in you. Though this is just a theory of mine. The paranoid part of me believes that all displays of emotion are conscious.