Aspies For Freedom

I hate having my picture taken.  I cower at the mere sight of a camera.  I don't know why, but I do.  Maybe I'm just not photogenic ^^.

Do not have a phobia of getting pictures taken, just don't like it.

I love posing for photos ;] in me best clothing anyway

Okay, got the terms mixed up.  Okay, so I'll create a term for it then.  Pictoraphobia ^^.  Yeah, that's it XD.

I hate having pictures taken because people always want me to smile and bug me like crazy.  Then when I see the picture I have a smile and it looks ugly, I hate smiles.  People think my smiles are cute because "it looks like you're trying not to smile", well newsflash, I am!!!!!!

I used to absolutely hate being photographed when I was smaller. Nowdays I don't care much.

I don't mind having my picture taken, if anything I wish it happened more often. When I go on holiday these days it's nearly always an organised group holiday so the only photographs of me are as one of the crowd, and usually out-of-focus (since no-one but me knows how to work my clunky Pentax SLR). Some day I must teach myself how to do the delayed shutter release thingy.

im not particularly photophobic, itd be a hard fear to hold on to here in arizona.
im a little pictophobic, but its more of a goofy bashfulness.
im hardcore flashaphobic though. i literally run for my life at the sight of one of those external top of the camera style flashes. and even cellphone flashes drive me nuts.

I can't stand family photos. Like... our family came over and it took them 20 minutes to situate themselves for a picture, and im standing next to them getting all hot and sticky.

I WANTED TO KILL THEM

I dislike having my photo taken.... by a non professional.  I have been a model for professional photographers, and that's different.  They take hundreds of shots in a session, take pains about the lighting, get to know your best side, what you suit and what you don't etc.  I'm no marylin monroe but theres a few photos of me that I really dig - and look nothing like me in real life when I look at myself in the mirror each morning

Taking photos of people is hard work, and getting them to sign release forms (if you like taking photos of the public) is a nightmare!)  Please - if a pro takes a photo of you.... have pity and remember it's their bread and butter?  

There was one 'pro' I'd rather forget - my second son, then aged four, had an attack of croup at my sister's wedding. As we were rushing away from the church to get him to hospital before he stopped breathing altogether, the photographer stood in front of us and tried to insist we stay for the photos!

When we arrived at the hospital an orderly took one look at the poor lad struggling for breath in my arms, picked him up and ran to get help. I love that man. He probably saved my boy's life, but in the confusion I never found out his name.

So, to the huge, white, gay orderly in Farnborough Hospital who saved my son's life in 1986 - thank you!

And to the photographer...

For those of you who aren't afraid of having your photo taken...

Fashion: You are this year's model

By Harriet Reuter Hapgood
Independent on Sunday, 17 February 2008

Fancy yourself as a model, but don't fancy surviving on lettuce leaves? For a fleeting taste of fame, get down to Selfridges where DKNY has teamed up with acclaimed New York photographer Mark van S to beam your image over London's West End via his digital photo booth.

The booth has travelled the world, from Switzerland to Seoul, and now it's hitting our shores. Every day during store hours you can have your picture taken in the booth (located in the DKNY concession on the second floor), from where it is instantly projected in black-and-white into Selfridges' windows overlooking Oxford Street. If you're worried you might not live up to the models who usually feature there, fear not: "Incredibly flattering lighting makes everyone look fabulous," says van S.

It's DIY, too – you pose, you press the button – so no chance of the camera catching pulling that "Are you taking the picture yet?" face. The photos are also added to a slideshow which will run in constant rotation in the store itself until the booth heads off to a new city.

Van S pioneered a new instant-projection technology for the booth (passport snapshots these certainly aren't), which has been used by Vogue Italia, Bloomingdales and Cartier. All that's asked of you to secure your proverbial 15 minutes is a minimum £1 donation to the British Red Cross – cheaper, one would imagine, than asking Mario Testino or Patrick Demarchelier to snap you – and you can take away the instantly printed copies for posterity.

NO NO!! get that dam thing away from me. lol

I don't like having my picture taken and what frustrates me even more is that the NTs I know are never understanding about it and always give me a hard time and hassle me into being in photos I don't want to be in.

My Mother used to make me have my picture taken by the school photographer even though I didn't want this and then criticise the resulting photograph at length - so what was the point?

I also have difficulties with lighting - I can't watch the TV or use the computer in the dark as I get headaches and visual disturbances. I also need natural light - I get headaches in places where there is artificial light only and those energy saving lights give me migranes, dizziness and nausea.

Fear of darkness is nyctophobia. If there were such a word as cameraphobia (it would be a Latin+Greek hybrid) it would mean fear of rooms, not specifically dark ones.