I am horrible at holding in my smile. I smile when I’m happy, mad, sad (even when crying), telling the truth, lying, innocent, guilty, sick, hurting, nervous, all of the above. I can’t help it. And don’t even get me started on laughing. I will hold it in as long as possible and even choke myself trying to do so. As a kid, we would laugh at the sound of people’s crying at funerals and it felt awful inside. Now I just don’t go to funerals and I have controlled my laughing in more ways than one. But smiling? Nah i still fail at that. #FeelFreeToList
Ya know, i've been known to be sad, depressed or in pain. By my face. :1 I'm usually just fine, I just don't need to smile to everyone to show my mood. But here's a good story where my classmates were shocked.
So I was in a call center bit, and I never laughed or entertained what my classmates did. I'm that quiet bish who watches. So we were in nesting (warm up stage before we do calls by ourselves) and we were taking on live calls. So it was me, and two other ladies and one went first. And before the dude even said "Hello, I'm tryi-" she hung up on him accidentally. I couldn't help but laugh because oh shiiiit. xD It was the one time they saw what entertains me and they remarked "Well, we know how to make Sour rose laugh!" and it was funny. So yeah, i'm good at it... until my sadistic funny bone activates
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No, I’m not. It’s hard work to force stop— I think awkward moments can be so funny.
I went to a funeral recently and the director and assistant were turning the coffin towards the aisle and realized it was apparently facing the wrong direction. They had to awkwardly move it down, back, turn, back up, turn again. It shouldn’t have been funny but I had to stifle my laugh. It was so obviously uncomfortable and reminded me of the scene when Austin Powers is trying to turn the golf cart around in a narrow hallway.
I can be good at hiding my emotions if you are not paying attention to me.. But, I've been told somethings are just written on my face.. I'm not terrible but I'm not the best.. Although, I wanted to be an actor, so obviously I can to a certain extent..
DON'T change! I wear my heart on my sleeve. I don't have to speak a word, and people know what I think: good, bad, happy, sad, funny, or if "Looks could Kill" they be maimed and dismembered! LOL!
People often tell me my laughs are infectious!
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Sometimes in school or university or whatever, there'd be like a little nuance or something... just some funny remark whose timing was on-point or a funny miscommunication or misunderstanding, or y'know being really intelligent and knowledgeable it might be where someone in class has said something insanely stupid but I'm likely the only person in the room whose aware of it... or maybe one or two other people are aware of it and one person's response to the spoken stupidity is even funnier to me than aforementioned stupidity... y'know something like that. Often just a very subtle nuance that increases in hilarity the more I reflect on and analyse it thereafter, so while everyone else is just carrying on and has forgotten about it I'm desperately trying to just not burst out laughing.
So in these such occasions I'd basically force myself to think about my childhood friend that died in a horrible accident, in order to stop myself from bursting out laughing. It doesn't feel particularly good and there's perhaps an element of guilt in the fact that I'm trying not to laugh while thinking of my friend that died... but actually what I'm doing is thinking about an event that made me really sad and was horrible and tragic as a coping mechanism to try and prevent me from inappropriate laughter. A lot of it is to do with how my brain works differently (high-functioning autism, often I see things from multiple angles... like an event happens and I see it in mult-dimensions, like it's octagonal in shape whereas to others it's probably just triangular or some shit).
Haha I'm ssme. I'm the joker. I especially laugh hysterically when nervous or even with second hand embarrassment. I apologize for laughing at inappropriate times if I do.
When I have to, very good. Absolutely vital to make it through boot camp. Equally vital when you're sitting in a room full of Admirals or members of Congress or executives and they say stupid shit or ask dumb questions that my cat can answer. Can't laugh so you learn not to.
I might hold my laughter in but definitely not a smile. I smirk like an idiot when I comes across something really funny and when I try to hide it my face becomes all red and I get teary eyed.
I got to see LeBron pass Kareem’s scoring record yesterday so I’m not gonna let what I just read even ruin my day. I’m great at holding in my smile because I don’t like smiling. If I’m not around kids, people I work with or not watching something that I think is actually funny then I’m not laughing
I am very good at this. I can always extend a joke or a gag as long as necessary without cracking up. That makes the laughter far more satisfying. Now that I think of it, there are some parallels to…um, other things.
Incredibly contagious those gif images. Really nice :0) Still, if need be, I can hold a smile and laughter, but I love funny situations and other reasons like kidding to have a good innocent laugh.
I smile a lot. I cannot have a serious face. No matter what. I’ve seen people get hurt and I laugh at their pain.
These Covid masks have been such life savers.I actually don't have the problem of holding laughter at funerals. But I have this problem where I'm in a bus or somewhere public and all of a sudden I remember a meme or something funny and I have to choke myself trying not to laugh.
Nope. Even when something isn't funny I just can't help it, though I try to. No, I don't think it's funny your mom died, I sympathize with you and am not laughing on purpose, I'm trying to stop
I think i am good at it unless im not lookin at someone who is lookin at me while we both are thinking the same thing or thinking the same way without saying or doing doing any gesture
I don’t have to withhold my smile. I really only smile as a precursor to a laugh, and i don’t laugh often.
I find it hard not to laugh and smile in amusement at people's minor misfortunes but not at major ones. Fortunately not at a funeral so far.
Yes, don’t have reason to smile and almost never laugh, never didn’t do much when I was younger.
laughter, yes... I can hold them
smiles, not a chanceNo, unfortunately i can't control my face...
Nope I’m terrible at it. Even when I try to hold it in, I’m caught smiling
Oh yes! I have a great poker face plus the beard helps a lot :D
I'm really bad at it when it comes a camera, when someone asks me to smile for a photo I legit can't. And then i have think of something funny to trigger an involuntary smile.
Yes I can control it, growing up I was always quiet and shy, I would avoid people often, so perhaps that’s the reason why.
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