Most times people want to take a picture of me, I freeze up and find it hard to smile. The main exceptions are when I am not told to smile and if it is somebody with some patience taking the picture. As a little kid, I used to like having my picture taken.
i really hate having my picture taken.video is worse
I would hate having videos taken of me because I saw a couple and they made me look retarded.
I'm apparently not very photogene as I see me compared to what I perceive from my mirror. I'm seldom filmed by others, that would have to be more than five years ago.
I guess I'm just taking this from the air right now, is this NOT an aspie thing?
I don't mind camera posing. I used to model. I look like a zombie on video though.
I don't really mind having my photo taken, as long as it's a candid shot. I hate being in pictures where everyone gets together and smiles, it looks so much worse (and fake, too).
i would say that depending on the situation, i would like to get my pitcture taken, but alot of times, i don't really want to. like places when most people would take 10-20 pics of themselves, i tend to stick to a couple. so i'm a bit camera nervous, and there are times i don't want my picture taken, so compared to nt's, i would have less self portraits. i am most likely to take pictures of more abstract things or action photos than self portiats.
Years ago, I didn't mind having my photo taken but it all seemed to change when I was about 6 and that was when both my parents nearly died within a 6 month period.
looking at some recent photos, i'm terrible at being photographed. i looked drunk, sleepy and creepy in some of the photos. i think i've gotten worse. it's not that i don't like taking pitctures with people some of the time, but that's a big reason i don't do it too often. i guess it's partially because i'm nervous, and i'm scared of all those cameras sometimes. this is one of the reasons why i like abstract photos instead, more natural than the staged self portrait.
Some photos make me look much fatter than I really am. So do dressing room mirrors.
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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.).
You didn't go to a special school, and you don't have special needs, so why does it bother you....
I hate having my picture taken or my voice recorded. In photos, I always look fatter than I am. And I hate recordings of my voice, which sounds little-girlish.
Me too. I had huge difficulty with the thread 'Post your pic' as I didn't want to seem snooty by not posting, but didn't want to put any pics of me on-line.
Then I remembered one a friend had taken a few years back that was put on a motorcycle club site and posted a link to that.
I always think I look odd in pictures.
Yes, I really don't like having my photo taken and don't like having my voice recorded either.
Not camera shy at all.
Tim