Why people's smiles turn upside down with age?

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• Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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    • PahdyGnome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• occultist8128@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  they have faced tough moments in their lives :)

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• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    yes! sleep gets worse Dunnit? and that makes everything a bit shitter than needes

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    • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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• sircac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gravity?

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Huh, stupid questions do exist lol.

  Old people, then “unhinged” people…

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Stress and fear will do that to you unfortunately

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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• El_guapazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fish lips happen from a general unhappiness.

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unhinged or older?

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  • Dropper_Post@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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