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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can't wink. Other people make it seem so easy, the best I can do is a scrunched up face with a sliver of one eye open enough to see

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Often when I try to copy other people's facial expressions, I realise I have no control over my facial muscles if I try to move just the left or right side. It's absolutely fine if I move both sides at once but I literally can't even sense the muscle to move it when I try one side, but my friends can. I can wink though, but I used to do it very unnaturally.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Strange, can you blink at all?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're joking, but blinking is fine. It's blinking one at a time that's the problem

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not joking at all, apologies if that came off as rude

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

It did not, it's just that sarcasm/irony is common on the internet, and tone is hard to convey just from written text. I was not offended at all, but thanks for being a nice person on the internet and apologizing anyways!