Aspies For Freedom

This one is a landmine for me. I was not in highschool yearbooks because I dodged cameras.  I got in trouble with a boss because I threw a fit when they made me be in a group photo for a company newsletter.  I flew into a rage at one convention that (unexpectedly) insisted on photographing each person for an ID badge.

However, I don't mind getting my picture taken by my (special interest) club. They are friends. I'm comfortable holding high profile officer positions in the club which puts my pic in their magazine a lot. I have also consented to my Significant Other taking pics, provided I have the option of erasing ones I dont like.

It comes down to the issue of power and intimacy.  I'll angrily refuse unless it is something *I* want to do. Otherwise I feel personally violated.

I don't like snapshot photos where you're meant to stand or sit in one place and 'pose' while smiling.  It just makes me really uncomfortable.  If I am happy and someone wants to take a quick photo then I'm ok, but not multiple photos, because by then the real smile is far gone and all you have is this stretched thing.  Basically I'm ok if someone doesn't require a specific pose and just wants natural.  

I actually take photos of me for my own projects though and I really like to portray emotion, but it's different because  the camera is not intrusive and I have a particular character or pose I can focus my attention on.

I don't like intense light, but the thing I averse from the most is water.

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?  

I used to be photographobic (I think that's a better word) of anyone but my parents taking the picture.  But recently, in my adult years, I've noticed that they took my picture only three of four times per year, mostly during Christmas and my birthday.  So last summer, with a brand new digital camera, I started taking pics of myself at arm's length and on a tripod as well.  I tried to capture my natural self in daily activities and in a full range of emotions.  The one thing I hate is fake smiles.  I only like my smile when it is genuine.

I dont mind beeing photographed, even if I normally don't like the pics a lot.
And by the way, I couldn't find a name for this phobia in the whole list ( http://www.phobialist.com/index.html )

But that reminds me  a meeting with a psychologist, where I told him, that I usually avoid taking the elevator.
"AH," he said,"we've never been talking about that..."
"We did," I answered, "I simply don't like meeting any of the neighbours in the elevator."

which reminds me another reason, for not using the elevator:

I used to be like that too. But I just don't enjoy looking at myself because I feel that even though I have the face and body that I lived with for 20 years now, I feel it doesn't show off who I really am deep down inside. I wished that I was in a subculture or something where I can dress uniqe but even though I'm 20, my parents don't allow me to. RATS!

I'm very photophobic...which sucks being legally blind and all...I wear tinting glasses that tint according to the amount of UV light.

I guess Im photophobic, as I had been bullied by people taking photos of me and put them on the computer and mobile phones.

Althrough I think its more to do with the invasion on my space.

I know some cameraphobic people (heh, that literally means 'afraid of dark rooms;' pretty much the opposite of the intended meaning.)  One of them just (accurately) thinks he looks terrible in pictures.  The other is a nut in a whole pile of ways; she might just do it to be unreasonable.

I don't like people randomly snapping pictures of me without my permission much, but if it's a close friend I won't mind.  And the action itself doesn't bug me.

As to actual photophobia, I kinda like light.  Even stuff some people can't handle, like strobe lights and such.  Although you do tend to bump into people under strobe lights.

My step daughter tends to always look down or at the ground when ever someone tries to take her photo. All the ruined photos used to annoy the *** out of me until we got a digital camera.

Thats our problem with most NTs, they never understand us. Also it frustrates me that people take pictures of me without permission, it pisses me off!