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And there are so many things in the world to take pictures of other than people like mountains, hills, the sky, models you build, lakes, rivers, cars and many more things why odes it always have to be of people.

Static photo cameras are irritating but generally okay. Video cameras though, I will not allow. I have seen myself on video only once and I never want to again.

I really hate any kind of pictures taken with a photoflash for sensory issues. Over the years it seems I almost perfected anticipating the flash in a way, because most of those pictures show me with eyes closed. Drove the poor bloke who had to take my last photo for my new passport a bit mad actually.

Since I professionally still work with real film, you know that stuff Kodak and Fuji used to produce, I really like the aesthetics of film especially highspeed b/w film. However I always feel sad when this precious material is wasted on me and my aspie-stare.

Yo. Checkit. I'm shameless...
You can see my stylus, you can see up my nose, you can see my lack of glasses at the moment (which is honestly the strangest part of all this).

Taken mere moments ago... just for you lot...

I've been posting photos of myself on the Internet for years.
I've posted quite a few videos of myself on YouTube, though I've not added any recently. Novelty wore off a while back.
I've had others take photos of me... some good, some bad, some terrible... and I've rolled with it. I can't help the way my chassis looks... so when folks take sh***y pictures of me, I just roll with it...
I've EVEN had photos of me shopped into the most horrible things, including image macros for the express purpose of mocking me. I've had people linking to my videos to make entire forum threads where everybody takes turns to take the piss out of me. And you know what I do? I just have a laugh myself, admit that I look like a right numpty, and roll with it. I mean no, I don't like being mocked... but the only real loss is to lose to one's emotions, and if I can't take mockery in stride then I've got no business being on the Internet.



What I can't abide though is folks who get all pissy-pants about photos of themselves and start trying to delete them. In fact I HAVE lost control and gone into rage mode because someone tried to delete photos I'd taken of them from my phone before. I will not abide my stuff being touched without express permission. Is why I usually try to be subtle in taking photos. Shame both my digital camera AND my phone are utterly incapable of subtlety as far as the flash is concerned... Combine that with my preference for dark places, and everyone pretty much knows when I'm trying to take a photo of them as much as several seconds in advance. ¬_¬ ... I wish I had Kim's camera. That thing is hella stealthy.

When I was little, I used to cry when someone tried to take a picture or video of me. I don't really complain anymore.

OP, I get you 100%. I hate cameras. I hate having my pic taken. I do not do vid chat, period. If a camera comes up, I'm outta there.
I'm so glad I'm not young now. I can't imagine what it's like to be part of generation everything online.

I've left class because a crew came in to film. On another occasion my class was filmed and I wasn't allowed to leave. I made sure to turn so my back was at them when they were in one side of the class and when they got to the other, I buried my face on desk with my arms over it. Some of us hate cameras and being filmed/ photographed. W should never ever be forced into that position in the first place. I regret not leaving the room despite the teacher's command. I should have. You cannot force pupils to be filmed.
Oh, just for the record, in both instances the crews were film students making movies for their class.

When I was little, up to 9 or 10, I'd monkey in front of the camera when my parents held it, but I refused when anyone else tried.
Even in my first daycare I was extremely uncomfortable being photographed by the guy who came by to take pics of all the children there. One group pic (the 'aunt' had to force me to sit down) and one individual snap of each child. When I was called to the bench for the individual one, I refused to butt, so they took the snap in the sandbox where I sat. I focused entirely on my shovel. It felt so wrong!
I was every bit as uncomfortable in every class pic I was forced to take. I hated it!
I can't recall it myself, but according to my mother I was a nightmare to have photographed when I was 2 and she took me to a pro. I was crying all the time from the second I was put in front of the camera, and it had taken forever before they managed to get a shot. My mother has told me she was sweaty when we left lol

If I were forced now I'd pull my shirt/jacket whatever over my face, or flat out refuse, regardless of consequences. I hate it that much. Not gonna happen. No one has any business snapping me.

Those who don't feel like that, cannot understand the amount of this we have. Just like NTs can't understand sensory issues, you can't understand how this is experienced for us.


Thankfully, due to that case in Sweden recently, there seems to be new laws on the way regarding what can be put online, so if you're unlucky enough to get caught on tape now that everyone has cell phones with pic/ vid functions, it will be regulated what can be done. Those laws cannot come quickly enough, and cannot be forceful enough!

I don't have a problem if people take a photo of me at all.

Posed photos are particularly annoying to me.
If someone is going to photo me I'd much rather they be candid but good shots.
I mess around some with amateur photography but rarely shoot pictures of people unless it can't be helped.
What's weird is that my dog doesn't like having a camera pointed at her.
A little pocket camera or iPhone doesn't bother her but something about that big glass eye of my DSLR or bridge camera staring at her makes her turn away or leave.

Being photographed or being recorded in any way upsets me. I never look right in photos and audio recordings upset me enough that I wouldn't even record myself just to listen to it by myself and delete it. I can't even recognize my own voice in a recording.

I dislike having my picture taken, I hate seeing myself, and with videos I hate my voice. It sounds nothing like what is in my head or how I hear myself. I begrudgingly let people take my picture, but if they take it without my permission and refuse to delete it, and be so cocky as to think it is their property.... I equate it to spying or being a peeping tom. It's plain creepy, and makes me very upset. Just because we exist does not give anyone the right to sneakily take our pictures.