Autistic people read other people’s facial expression incorrectly, do they also make wrong facial expressions?

 Autistic people read other people’s facial expression incorrectly, do they also make wrong facial expressions?

I seem to not be able to have a poker face. People seem to know what I’m thinking.

I had a friend who is almost certainly ASD come to my house for a BBQ, a gathering of a lot of people. My wife asked later if he didn’t have a good time, as he never smiled.

I said, yes, I think he had a great time.

When I ran into him later in the week, he took the time to tell me that he had a great time. I had read him correctly. Not every positive emotion results in a truthful smile. NTs, on the other hand, are habitual smilers. People who are ASD tend by nature to only smile when the emotion causes a smile.

So I’m going to have to say, no, I don’t think Auties/Aspies make incorrect facial expressions. You are probably just used to NT people faking facial expressions.

As far as ASD not being able to read facial expressions, NTs lie constantly. They smile when they don't mean it, they say they are fine when they are not. Do you think you could correctly identify a green crayon if people randomly called it a different color while you were learning colors?