A woman talks about the pressure to look presentable on Zoom calls and keep her camera on. Her face reacts involuntarily to what people say, showing confusion or judgment without her meaning to. She's stopped trying to control it and accepted that her expressions are just automatic.
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Don't be in a meeting on Zoom where you have to have your camera on. You have to make sure your face is looking a certain way because God forbid people will be like, why are you making that face? Sure, why, why you look like that? What, what are you thinking? You're making a face. I cannot stop this. I've tried. I've tried my hardest. I can't stop this. This is going to do whatever it wants to do, and I'm not going to give myself a migraine trying to figure out how to fix this because my face is gonna do what it wants to do. If it doesn't want to have an expression, it won't. It doesn't mean anything is wrong, it just doesn't want to have this expression. If you say something that is just out of pocket, my face is gonna try to figure out who you talking to. If you say something that don't make sense, my brain is trying to figure out what made your brain think that that was actually a logical statement. My face is going to say my thoughts. And I've gotten to the point where I just don't care. So if you ask me, oh, what, what's on your mind? Your face is