how autistic do you look in your childhood pictures?

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Don't know. I have no photos of myself from before the age of 20.

A school photograph once told me: "Is THIS your best smile? really?"
I was 6 and know for a fact that this quote is 100% accurate, as well as the spiteful look on his face that is printed in my mind forever.

I struggled with smiling for a long time. I could smile correctly if it happened naturally but when asked to smile I always had a weird look on my face. I still have problems smiling if asked to smile and I am 40 years old.

I usually had a real smile in pictures as a kid. I don't remember looking off into the distance in pictures. I look more 'autistic' in pictures now. A lot of my childhood pics are candids though, and I'm doing funny things like rolling in mud (sensory thing?), playing with animals (my special interest), or lining up my toys.

Speaking of kids photo graphs - anyone else REALLY freaked out by kids eyes in photo's?

Standing rigid, staring intensively into camera's lens, no smile or trying to smile - that's me in my old pictures.

I actually do look like I have Aspergers in my photos as a child. In most of my photos, I have always looked away or closed my eyes. I have that blank expression on my face quite alot.

Wooooo Hoooooooo... MAHJONGG QUEEN!

Eyes in photos generally freak me out, unless they're looking away from the camera.

Like this photo with the subject's eyes rather intensely staring at the camera. A friend linked this to me as something cool, but I just find it difficult and off-putting to look at.

Eyes!

I will come to you at night, I promise! HAHAHAHA!

I've noticed that in my pictures as a child I'm always somewhat separated from everyone else and I have a horrible fake smile.


I don't think it's my fault though...I always wanted to be included in the group but no one else wanted me there. *sigh*

Very acute of you.
My bald = normally the reason I had a fake smile, to keep all those cheek grabbers happy.



This is a picture that better portrays me.
I was always inspecting the fine details.
I can still remember the feel of that cold boulder through the material, the patterns in the stone, its hard shiny point with a slate like surface.
When I moved it from side to side the light was bouncing off different surfaces.
My family were all enthusiastic about climbing this big hill, I couldn't work out why, don't get me wrong I loved every walk, but I just didn't understand why you'd want to walk up a hill, just to walk back down again, it made no sense.

I look so normal and happy here. When did I forget how to smile? What happened to me?

I can agree with you, that is a really nice moment they captured there, you do look like happiness personified.

What happened to you?
Life.

This is me when I was a child years ago.

It all depends on who was taking the photo and where I was. When my mom and dad were together, I smiled in every photo from that time. When my mom divorced my dad and moved us here, not one smile hardly ever appeared in any photograph.

In many childhood photos I would be sitting on my mum's lap, even clinging to her like a little koala. There's a picture of me at the beach and I'm looking down (I looked down a lot) and my fingers are positioned in a weird way like I'm stimming. In photos with other children I'm looking away and there's a large gap between myself and them.
My mum always said I looked weird in photos too, like I could never look directly at the camera. People always had to force a smile out of me too.
Actually these days when a camera is on me I don't know what to do.