Aspies For Freedom

Are you bothered by the camera. I cannot stand people filming me. I've got Media Coursework comin up soon, and we have to film. I'm dreading it!

I don't really like it when somebody is filming.  I don't like looking at a picture of myself.

I never liked having my picture taken which was difficult because my father was an avid photographer and got so angry with me.  Much later when video cameras were new and everyone was making videos at parties I let someone interview me on tape.  After I saw the tape I never let anyone videotape me again.

Yes. I used to HATE having my picture taken. Sttll do, but I somehow deal with it now.

My high school senior yearbook has no pics of me (at my request - had to have the yearbook staff pull some candid shots I was in)

Don't like cameras. I've hardly ever had a picture taken of me (outside of mandatory school pictures when I was in gradeschool/highschool). They just make me feel uncomfortable for some reason.

ive always hated it, i only let one person take pictures of me, and i dont really tell her i like it, infact i think, she thinks i hate it,
if it was anyone else i would not let them.

guess its a trust thing, dont know

Depends on the context.  I don't mind certain friends photographing me in my hobby club for the newsletter.  I am then in the persona of club ambassador where I behave differently.  Usually though I flat refuse.  I dodged school photos so I wasn't in the yearbooks.  I made a boss angry because I insisted on wearing sunglasses for a mandatory department group photo. I made a huge fuss at one event I had paid to attend then discovered at the door that they were photographing people for ID badges. I'd rather tell them to give me my money back.  It feels extremely intrusive and like a personal violation when it's not my idea.  Probably the closest I come to rage.

I loathe having a camera pointed at me. I had a massive panic attack before my uni graduation ceremony because I new I'd have to have a professional photo taken.
I hate watching myself

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To continue the previous post:

I hate watching myself on video because it makes me realise how different I look and act compared with everyone else. I tend to think of myself as being very good at acting NT, then I see myself on video and realise that I appear to be quite 'special' (I use special in the sense of 'special' school, 'special' needs etc.).

It's funny because I really hate myself on a pic... I really have the feeling that I am different from others, look weird, while I don't have at all that feeling when I look at a mirror... Sometimes I wonder who is the real me, pictures or mirror? The weirdest thing is that I don't really recognize myself, like if it wasn't me, on pictures.
The relief is that my buddies tell me that I look weird on pictures too... which is reassuring since that means I am simply not photogenic.

HATE having my picture taken.

I've had quite a few "candid camera" and "hidden video" shots taken of me in my life. People love to show me the shots they took when I didn't know anyone was looking. And they are always absolutely atrocious and embarrassing.

I echo the lamentation of the person who mentioned looking "special."

I don't do photos and i don't do voluntary smiling.
I haven't had one taken in about 2 years.

Well that's a relief.  Finally, a group of humans who feel the same as I do about a camera.

My granddaddy was the same way.  His mother was a Cherokee and he always explained it, half-jokingly, that he adhered to the view that somehow it stole a little of your soul.

Of course, I idealized my Granddaddy and somewhat unconsciously adopted this stance too.  Now, once I got older I didn't believe this literally but somehow it still made sense to some deep inner me.  

In this day of Internet and constant surveillance, yeah...having your image out there can be considered stealing a little bit of your soul...

(Brittany Spears anyone?  HR departments auto-googling new applicants?  Irate ex-lovers?  Ex-tenents? Ex-customers? Anti-abortion pickets?  REAL ID?).

I'm pretty camera shy, especially when someone wants to model me since I'm "pretty" (oh, such modesty). I feel very uncomfortable in fromt of the camera.

It doesn't help that I'm faceblind and so I don't keep an updated mental image of what I look like.  I'm getting older. I'd rather not think about what age is doing to my looks. When I see a recent photo of me I get shocked by it. This is rather painful and I usually beg to destroy said photo.