AUTISTIC GIRL GUESSES FACIAL EXPRESSIONS 

I've taken the same quiz and failed miserably 😬 On a similar note today I thought my boss was asking me a sarcastic question & laughed but later realized it was serious & I've been thinking about it ever since.

I want to say that it's a terrible test. Some of those faces were blank. And who uses those multiple emotions like that? Plus the faces seemed like they were acting out what they thought the emotions should look like instead of actually capturing photos of people experiencing those emotions. And I don't really struggle with reading emotions, as far as I know.

I got accused of giving a girl dirty looks it high school. It turns out that I was accidentally giving her the looks without even knowing it. Now I worry that I will accidentally offend someone with my facial expressions.

I dont think ppl actually use this expressions irl 😭 even NT's say this is hard lmaoo

The crown, the dino earrings, the look is immaculate. Love how you hang your flower crowns too!!

I honestly feel like this isnt the best test bc of how staged the expressions are. But on that note I feel the struggle 🤣. I have so much trouble reading emotions unless I've known that person for a long time.

They didn't make this easy! They've used other emotions to both qualify and quantify the extent and way in which these emotions presented! I didnt even know you could be fearfully disgusted. I left them video so confused as the vast spectrum of human emotion, and I pride myself on being able to read people like a book! 😪

Swinging straight from "they're all too staged that's not how people actually look" to "why can't people just pick one emotion at a time?" and that about sums it up for me 😂

One of my best friends is autistic and I find she’s often really good at knowing right timing. Not necessarily because she is great at detecting emotions, but her empathy is really big. She knows she wouldn’t like it when something bothersome happens so she usually speaks up when something is wrong. We understand each other quite well! I also feel more comfortable opening up to her about things because of her really refreshing honesty and good moral compass ❤️

I thought the exact same as you on all of these Chloé, I think it’s a pretty bad test haha. My facial expressions do not match up with my emotions so people always assume I’m upset or annoyed even when I’m really excited - I’m the irl Bucky Barnes haha

The test shows a neutral expression: fearfully disgusted Me: wait for the heck? Seriously though, half of the answers sound made up.

You always look so preeettttyyyyyyy omg!

Love how she uses situations as an emotion, I’m gonna have to use these sometime 😂

Lol I'm not autistic, and I struggled to read those faces. Not everyone make those faces like you said in the beginning that a lot of people express their emotions definitely. And even some people hide their emotions, especially when it is a negative emotion, so we can only get so far with identifying someone's emotions, unless the person tells you or you know them very well. On the other hand, some people are just so expressive that you can obviously tell how they feel.

One of the images looked, to me, like social anxiety.... and it turned out to be disgust! Which means I no longer have to worry about whether or not I'm giving off the wrong impression in a social situation, because I know the answer: the answer is that I could be at my most socially anxious just trying not to draw any attention to myself, and someone (like the creators of the quiz) will look over and say "what's wrong with her, she looks disgusted". I guess it's freeing to know that I can't get it "right", because then I can stop trying, and ultimately put the significant amount of energy it takes to be socially anxious, into something else.

Some people fake emotions too, either to be polite, to fit in, or because they're being manipulative, which is really just another form of masking/aka being two faced.

This is just giving me flashbacks to my diagnosis and i has to go through a bunch of people and describe there emotions 😂

I love when you mimick the faces cos' I do it too!

I love your videos, they make me feel more human and comfortable. Thank you

As an Autistic human I did just as about as well as you did Chloe 🙂♡♡ Neurotypicals confuse me and I mean that in a loving and kind way 💕 As this test just proves how emotions aren't that black and white in everyone.. How emotions can be much more complex then people think, an lot like human- beings are as we're all multidimensional and don't all fit the same box, as what others expect this is especially true in Autistics..... As it's called an spectrum for an reason as you know 🙂♡♡ and we all have an varient of different traits and are so diverse from each other 🥰♡♡♡♡ I had to agree with you there Chloe you crack me up, exactly right

I can usually get the general easy ones. These ones had me beyond lost.

I thought the same for disgust 🤣 I was like, this is what I feel like when I'm trying to listen but end up spacing out, overthinking, or don't know how to react. Is this why people often think I'm judging them?

It was interesting that they had a mix of the "obvious" (children's book) face as well as subtle ones. Subtle expressions are much more common in real life, and harder, especially without context. I think a 10-second video would be make the subtle less difficult to detect.

I got a lot of them, and I think that's because of my autism mixed with c-ptsd. Reading faces kept me safe. And being raised by TV and having special interests of TV and movies.

i absolutely love that i was trying to replicate the faces too to try and help me figure out what the heck it was XD

Chloe, I got most of them right, but a few I got wrong like the guy that you said was " content "I thought he was "being understanding" and here he had contempt. Whether you're neurotypical or neurodiverse it can be hard to always get people's facial expressions because we're all different. Like the one with the two eyes showing and covering their face, I thought that person was scared because of covering their face with their eyes extra wide open showed fear. However, most people who are afraid don't cover their face like that. There are people that cover their face for religious reasons, like some people in the Muslim faith. Chloe, I so love your lavender shirt because it's my favorite color! Thank you for this fun and interesting video 😃😃🦋🦋💖💖!!!

I'm in love with your frog and axolotl

For the first one I said “it’s bright outside so he’s squinting?”💀

Im here for the axolotl break content.

the “disgust” one is what i look like when i zone out

the pets ❤❤❤❤❤❤😭😭😭😭😭✨✨

I remember when I was little i got lots in trouble because to me people always looked liked they were smiling even tho they were mad so I hardly took anything serious because people were smiling but now I'm way older and I know now how to see the differences

I can only express what I think these are with sounds like ugh or AaaAaAAah or phrases like uh oh or oh no she didn’t I’m pretty good with expressions in real life because of context, but even knowing the answer to these I still can’t grasp the idea of having so many emotions show in ones face at one time

When i take these quizzes during intervention I always take a piece of paper list out all the options and why. Then my interventionist looks at me and shakes her head🥲

Me: trying to guess along Also me: “wow I am much worse at reading people’s faces then I thought”

Got nearly the same results as you. Also Autistic lol glad to have someone on the same boat 😂🤣

1:17 Yes, exactly, that is most of the actually difficult part for me as well.

7:30 how is that disgust 😭

Well I already think that I'm autistic, but I thought my understanding of facial expression is pretty good. After this quiz I doubt that. Also I did the imitating of the faces too :) This strangely helps, cause otherwise I'm completely lost at finding the meaning

#1 I'm going to say you were right the first time, clearly constipated #2 Im guessing "what the" or disgusted #3 worried #4 sad #5 worried #6 funny #7 faking sad #8 frustrated #9 you gotta be right, caught his best mate and his girl #10 scared #11 surprised #12 happy/content #13 happy #14 scared #15 Fed up #16 neutral think I got 5.5 of the questions right lol

They say that Luna Lovegood, and Hermonie Granger from the Harry Potter Universe are "autistic" but you know Luna Lovegood can read facial expressions really well. In Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows Part One, Luna is quoted in saying " Harry I have interupted a deep thought havent I. "Hey Harry does not feel like talking to us right now. He is Just to polite to say so."

My C PTSD ass just sees all of these aggressive or passive aggressive, just to different scenarios

Love your outfit today. Also. Facial expressions are REALLY hard for me.

I once had to do a drama review on a play where one part was talking about the actors facial expressions and i COULD NOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME get any of their facial expressions. I think i might have had a breakdown at home abt it bc i thought i was gonna fail the test. Ah autism. I hate it

NTs often think I'm angry when i'm just neutral because "resting bitch face". I did worse than I thought I would. I had too much confidence in my picture face emotion reading lol. I got some of them ... in real life my default is to think everyone is angry but that might be trauma ... In those pictures I didn't guess nearly enough anger lol or disgust.

10.28 & 11.32 to quote a psychopath 'I don't know what that face means but it's what people make just before I stab them.'

Me: I bet I can do this! Me: *fails so so bad* The first one where you said pushing out a turd, literally the first thing I thought it was that he smelled somebody fart on him or something. I should’ve known how badly it was going to go from the outset.

I had all the same thought you did 🤣 it was sort of confusing tho

This is sooo hard! I failed miserably. I understand Aspie :)

Interesting video. Thanks.

The guy with the weird hat WAS DEFINITELY NOT ANGER. NO. FUCKING. WAY. NOOOO WAY. Im with you on this.

How am i supposed to understand peoples' intent and emotions when they hide and manipulate them 😃

Chloe's DEFINITELY right about the FEAR one. Irl, fearful people do NOT make those eye movements AT ALL but theyre much less muted, because a true threat doesnt allow you to look so exaggerated like this person does. I ALSO CHOSE SURPRISE/SHOCK. Fear is there but it looks like it's a "Fake Fear" to me which makes me not take it seriously.

I get it

I did the first quiz and I got 4 out of ten and then I did the second and a only got 7 out of 20, safe to say I’m not good at reading expression lol

I can’t wait to see you on Zoom today 😁

I burst out laughing when it said disgust

I never expected to not get half of these lol

Can you understand drawn expressions? One of my lifelong interests is art/animation, and I can understand drawn expressions without issue, unless they're really lifelike. Lifelike faces and actual people's expressions aren't as easy for me to understand, I tend to feel like people are mad or upset with me, and it doesn't help I can't hold or make eye contact in 90% of interactions. I'm mostly asking because I was told my issues are entirely anxiety (my therapist thought combined autism/adhd, possibly ocd, but the specialist I saw cut out all the things I was diagnosed with previously and said it was just general anxiety). Part of why I was told this was because they showed me a picture book and asked to to describe the faces in it, but they were all cartoony so of course I understood perfectly what each expression meant. On real people it's more difficult, like I really struggle to understand if my mom is actually happy, if she's really angry, if she's just tired? Idk, I'm really lost at the moment and I guess I'm trying to figure out what's going on in my head, I relate very much to autistic/adhd people (my 2 friends are adhd & one has ocd), but they said I was too expressive and communicated too well to be autistic. They said nothing about adhd...they also said labels are just for getting meds and they don't like them, and I should be grateful because anxiety can be cured.

The thing is, I can understand facial expressions (through manually working them out) But, facial expressions aren't exactly reliable.. People fake facial expressions, and lie. If you just assume people's emotions by their face, If you can't detect fake facial expressions, you clearly aren't going to pick up on the body language. I can always tell how someone's truly feeling, what their intentions are and when they are lying Precisely BECAUSE I don't rely upon facial expressions. Also, people may call us 'rude', simply for seeing past the face they're putting on and being honest and authentic. I'm not going to pander to someone being fake polite to me or lying to me. I'll be nice if I have no reason not to. Im not going to be extra nice towards an inauthentic person.

I have adhd and this is stupid hard even for me. Like the blank face I had no clue.

no one: me for the 6th time: oh that's definitely confused this time

Yeah dude I agree. You got some complicated ones. What's with the dual emotions? Keep it simple quiz people!

This one guy's face was like really expressive and I noticed some patterns throughout the video, that made it a little bit easier to guess what emotions are showing in his face. However, someone else might be just as expressive, but they show the exact emotions in a different way, their face would look so different. It's like, you think you figured out the rules, then you apply them to someone else, and it suddenly doesn't fit anymore. And besides that, let's be real, hardly anyone in this world has such an expressive face. It's like, you could be happy, you could be sad, you could be angry, you might just be existing in the moment, I will never know. And because of that, my masking made my face super expressive, like a cartoon character, which is so annoying for me.

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Men and women with autism I’m autistic too

On a similar note the other day I realised that if I’m trying to find an emoji I’ll mimic the facial expression and I only realised when someone said to me “why are you making that face” whilst I was trying to find a similar emoji to this 😖

I did awful didn’t get some of the ones you did. I got the fear one but only guessed coz his eyebrows looked like they were going down but then thought if he had smaller eyebrows I dunno if I’d have noticed 🥴

I'm taking the test while I watch this. Pausing it to answer... The first expression looks like he smelled a really horrendous fart. The 2nd looks like he just stepped on a nail but doesn't want to draw attention to the fact. The 3rd looks guilty. The 4th looks like he just woke up and doesn't know where he is. #5- You can't fool me, that's the 2nd one again! #6- I agree with Chloe... happy. (WHAT?!Happily disgusted? That's not even a thing!!!) #7- I'm thinking sad, but if they say sadly disgusted I'm gonna quite this test... (Chloe didnt say, so I'll never know...) #8- I'm guessing angry. (Yay I was half right) #9- He's about to sneeze? #10- My guess is Surprise, and I think that's Eric Idle in a Monty Python movie #11- No wait, THAT'S surprised (Yay I got it...) #12- Satisfied (close enough, these are getting easier) #13- "I'm gonna be a daddy!" (yep, that would be "happily surprised") #14- Okay, that one was easy with my social anxieties i spend a lot of time like that but do my best to hide it. #15- Is being a terrorist an expression? (terrorists are probably angry so I'll give myself that one...) #16- I'm gonna say "contemplative", lost in thought. Boy was I wrong, no wonder I'm so happy I'm oblivious to everyone's contempt. I blame this lousy test. How do I know THEY know what the expression is with a bunch of stock pictures? They could have just made it all up. If they did take these pictures are the subjects only ACTING these emotions, or really feeling them? If they are, how did they put that one guy thru so many sad and disgusting situations? Or maybe I'd do better with female faces. Guys seem weirdly unexpressive to me as if showing feelings is a sign of weakness while my girl friends wear their heart on their face. Anyway that was a fun but I'm not gonna use it for a diagnosis, I'm fine with :"I'm PROBABLY somewhere on the spectrum it just explains so much about my life..."

these were hard

I feel like there is absolutely nothing wrong your comprehension here. These expressions are really specific and your answers were decent.

this quiz 100% confirmed that i am in fact autistic

I think it's because we categorize things by micro-categories, like 'facial expressions of Jim' rather than broader categories such as 'sad facial expressions'. We'll definitely know if Jim is sad because we know his expressions, but we won't know if stereotypical X is sad

that second guy in the test I DID see something "behind the eyes" that looked like Judgement or that thing where a guys like, "yes Im going to go up to tht girl and talk to her and act tough" like "intent" or "ambition" but the "wheels are turning" as they say. It's VERY slight, but it's there. Somewhere, I dont know where. "Disgust" though Im not so sure if that's there AT ALL, not sure this test is that accurate, though something slightly different is. Maybe Im not autistic???? God I love this video

I did horrendous too and I'm Autistic

You did better than me 😊 it was a very hard test. I have to have context to tell what anyone is feeling.

This was confusing in so many levels… NT can’t be serious these test was impossible

My answer to the first one was constipated lol

i did horribly :) also, i love the anthropocene reviewed!

She actually starts the guessing at 3:47

8:23 my mother uses this face on me woah the times she been happily disgusted and I didn’t even know

U look nice

what website did you use to get those faces?

My solution: made it my special interest😂

Good video

I had difficulty understanding what tears of joy was it just looks like they crying water running down cheeks from eyes but I managed worked it took 30 years to work it out if they laughing and tears running same tome it’s tears joy

On another note, I am not autistic and some of the faces shown were really easy to figure out, but the few pictures where the man was barely making any facial expression, resting as you said, was really hard to decipher. Like a resting face would have been as good as a guess as MAD. I feel like they were thrown in to confuse autistic peeps 😭😭

i think whoever made this test doesn’t know what emotions look like 😂

Second I think expressing seriously

Double emotions expressions are quite hard

Ok I am not autistic but i failed this test miserably

Is it me or does the happy one look like Loki from marvel

I thought I could read emotions well, but after this I don't think so. I was getting them wrong and was feeling a bit queasy in the belly.

i got like two of them lol

I used to spend a lot of time guessing peoples faces... these days I don't know... most people seem hostile DX

Yo I not autistic and can not tell what some of these are

Idk about you but I put my hand over my mouth and give a death glare when I’m suprized

I cannot imagine anyone would be good at understanding these expressions 🤔 I would reply in a very similar way.

Love the flower crown, it’s suits you. I did slightly better than you… and agree that test was hard.

I watched another autistic youtuber take this quiz and there were plenty of NTs in the comments saying they didn't understand the faces either. So don't worry you aren't bad at reading faces, the test was just bad lol