Face awareness

[Ken]

I saw this website about autistic and non-autistic face differences for different emotions.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-autistic-differ-anger-happiness-sadness.html

I have watched it over and over, but I am unable to distinguish any significant differences in any of the avatars. Maybe a little in the thermal avatars, but that's pretty subtle.

I don't know if that's just me or what. I do know that I suffer social blindness, but I don't know if that prevents me from seeing the differences in the avatars.

Can any of you see the differences?

 

[Outdated]

Can any of you see the differences?

I'm someone very good with facial expressions and body language, but you can't imitate that very well with cartoons. I also don't see any differences in them, although I only looked at the first one.

 

[Forest Cat]

I'm 90% sure there is no difference in the pictures. Maybe some tiny differences but so small that they make no difference.

 

[Hypnalis]

I can see differences in the images, but they're not good images.

For example ASD's are well known (with good reason) for not coordinating the muscles around their eyes with the muscles around their mouths.

The images don't show the eye muscles directly, which removes a lot of information (IMO this is a good part of why cartoons aren't good for this, as per Outdated's comment above).

@Ken
I can unwrap the three pix for you if you really want, but start here:

Angry: Eyebrow line
Happy: Mouth size
Sad: Eye size

IMO there's too much information missing from the images for them to be used to help any ASD learn to recognize someone's feelings from their face.