I noticed quite a few older unhinged people with upside down smiles. Like :( and that is their default facial expression. What is the reason behind this?

  • AmidFuror
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    263 days ago

    The title asks about age-related change, but then the post body just talks about unhinged people. Are the two interchangeable?

  • @Acamon
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    373 days ago

    As people age their faces sag due to changes in skin elasticity (and also often gaining weight), this can lead to a “resting sad face” compared with perky youngsters. But, as a middle aged person, I’ve also started to notice that I often get absorbed in my thoughts and realise I’m sitting there with a thousand yard stare and a drawn facial expression I associate with being sad or very sick or very hungover.

    But inside I’m not sad, I’m just thinking about something I need to do or whatever, but I feel like I need to consciously “inhabit” my body again and “power up” my facial muscles so I look thoughtful, or determined or something rather than a blank “my family has just died in a car crash and I can’t decide whether to call the ambulance or kill myself with a shard of broken windscreen” expression.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 days ago

      further to this, we tend to get greater responsibilities as we age, and they’re no fucking fun, are they?

      watch out kids - don’t grow up, it’s a TRAP (and not the good kind). Still, it’s mostly mental, a lot of the time

      • @PahdyGnome
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        32 days ago

        Peter Pan may have been a psychopath but he sure had a point

  • @El_guapazo
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    22 days ago

    Fish lips happen from a general unhappiness.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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    3 days ago

    After a while you have seen it all and it takes extra energy to find the funny. Finding the funny is harder when you sleep poorly and your body ages.

    That said, finding the funny is absolutely worth every effort, it’s just that sometimes it’s hard work.

    Source: age

      • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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        22 days ago

        Sleep … I cannot remember the last time I had eight hours uninterrupted. Last night I managed 5.5 hours in three shifts. That was an improvement on the night before.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 days ago

          tough crowd…

          somehow 6 feels great, if you can get it but usually my sinuses cave in screwing everything up

  • thermal_shock
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    42 days ago

    Huh, stupid questions do exist lol.

    Old people, then “unhinged” people…

  • @RBWells
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    32 days ago

    Oh the chubby cheeks to jowls slide is real, and I think that’s part of it. Also lower teeth showing more than upper.

    • Dropper-PostOP
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      02 days ago

      Older with upside down smiles and happen to be unhinged when examined closely