When he turns back, his face is completely expressionless. Then, prompted by the researcher, the dad turns his face away from the stroller. At first, a parent and baby play together, dad smiling and cooing, baby clapping her hands and laughing. If you have been accused of ‘Not caring, being cold, being heartless, unreceptive, detached,” or otherwise unfeeling, yet you know you feel emotions sometimes desperately, perhaps flat affect is present.The still face experiment is disturbing. When other people can not see our emotions clearly displayed on our faces, it is assumed that we are unfeeling. our emotions may not be evident to others because of flat effect… NT people generally are very facially expressive of emotions and looking at one’s face is often a giveaway to one’s thoughts ( one being a person or an individual). My mother was diagnosed with Parkinson’s while she was in her mid 50’s partly because she appeared to show “the mask” or flat affect that is known to develop with Parkinson’s disease… and knowing of her autism, I am now wondering if the flat affect due to her autism was perhaps attributed instead to Parkinson’s.įlat affect might be one reason that autistic people are often accused of being cold. I had always thought I was quite expressive both in my face and body, and in my voice! I certainly feel emotions, and was amazed that these emotions are not clearly visible on my face and in my reactions, etc in interactions with others, etc. I was quite surprised when the Doctor who diagnosed my autism said in the summary report that I “presented with flat affect”. Flat affect is reported as being frequent among autistic people. the lack of showing emotion in one’s “presentation” to the world. I have been trying to learn if there is a link between Parkinsonism’s “mask” and Autism’s frequent reports of flat affect.įlat affect is simply a lack of expressivity in one’s face and reactions.
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