"Resting Bitch Face" is a real disease. They ought to come up with a cure for this, or at least a vaccine that has 5G in it.

WOW great parenting by your mother NOT!!! just start actually giving her dirty faces whenever she grounds you and then when she says something about it, be like hey you grounded me for something I didn't do intentionally, so now I am intentionally doing it since I'm grounded for doing something unintentional 🤷‍♂️

Sounds like my ex! lol

Try talking to your mother when neither of you are in a bad mood and she hasn't accused you of giving her a dirty look recently. Tell her you'd like to find a way to stop these misunderstandings from happening. (For example, maybe she could take a picture of your face when she thinks you're happy, and another picture when she thinks you're just neutral, and then finally when she thinks you're giving her a dirty look-- though that last one might be hard to get, timing wise. Anyway, this is just a random example.) By framing it as a misunderstanding-- that is, she's not at fault, and you're not at fault, it's just a problem to solve together-- you may get her to believe you, even if you can't come up with a solution. Also, don't discount the possibility that you are making an expression that some other people might interpret in the wrong way, in which case it would be great to figure that out now, at home, with your mom, rather than, say, a boss or a romantic partner. TLDR: A useful techinigue in some situations is to reframe the issue as a problem that isn't anyone's fault, and solicit the other person to help you brainstorm about solutions. I've found this to work quite well both at work and at home.

Reminds me of the South Park episode where Butters kept getting grounded for looking “ stupid “ 🤣🤣