Do you look odd in your photos?

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Oh yeah you bet I do! Nowadays I look as a total disaster, I dont like to see my face on photos and know I look ugly and then the feeling in my appearance and faceexpression on photos look thereafter... I could actually look better in photos from old days when I was posing more naturally in front of the cam...

I'm not particularly photogenic, but I do have to say, I don't see how those two men look odd. They look pretty much like most of the older men in my family photos.

Well, pictures are something I really like to look at, and observe. And if I see pictures that a NT has taken where the pose is interesting to me, I will mimic it in a photo of my own. I have been known to do some weird poses myself though, and despite loving both looking at, and taking pictures, I would not consider myself to be a photogenic person! I very rarely smile. It's either a straight face (that most NT's tend to think is an angry face), something silly, or laughing.

I think I have a tendency to either look too serious or too silly in photos.
I'm working on being photogenic and you can see for yourself in the pics thread in the Members Forum.

I look odd in the photos I don't take of myself. I look very tense and sort of surprised in the photos I have seen of myself and Flakey's family at holiday gatherings...I looked alot more odd in childhood photos,,

Unrelated, but Zara, I love your signature idea! Would you mind if mine was something similar, but obviously with my own interests?

Yes, that's exactly why I despise having my picture taken.

Our school photographer being the sneaky bastard that he is sneaked in a joke at the last moment, at which I laughed.
So it seems I was happy, and I was laughing, but my face was completely blank after and before that.
I cannot make my smile seem any less of the ecstasy it is.

I'm extremely unphotogenic. I hate getting my picture taken. I always seem to have a really stupid expression on my face.

People have told me my photos look like a blank stare or like I'm not really focused on the camera or anything in the room (as if in deep thought.).

When I was younger I'd try to smile and always looked really ret*d because it was always so fake... I was never really in to smiling for the hell of it. Only if I'm thinking of something amusing will I smile and sometimes giggle... though it's usually at inappropriate times or completely out of nowhere. Like laughing at a funeral; people don't take that too well.

My mum says you can tell I am autistic in my school pictures becuase I had "blank" look in my eyes and a fake smile. The people the school had for photos were the least understanding and would harass me about how to sit and fuss with my hair until I had a meltdown or attacked one of them. With all that it's the least I could do to at least fake a smile. Why is it required to smile in photographs anyway? I never smile in pictures anymore unless someone catches me off guard playing with my lizard or something.

I look hot. Oh yeah, I do look kind of awkward. I've noticed my dad does too. He was on the spectrum too.

I always had trouble with photos. I couldn't get my face to arrange itself right . In some of my school photos I had such disgusted looks on my face, which would frustrate my mother. There were a few years that she didn't buy them. Even now it is so hard. I don't take many pictures of myself for that reason.

It would make sense that someone who has the "flat affect" and expressionlessness that si described of autistics would look this way in photos or look like thier smile is not quite "right".

I look odd in just about all of my pictures. I have some picture of me from when I was five or something from a family gathering. It looks like my eyes are trying to come out of my head... but I was smiling real big. That was an important thing for my family... smile big... I look psychotic. It is funny. I hate having my picture taken. I look strange in all of them. I wonder if that is how I normally look and I see myself differently than others do or if I really am that weird looking all of the time. I hope I do not always look like that... my poor husband... he just got his new glasses and can see clearly again. Heh.

I never remember feeling as detached or as awkward as I look.

I remember one photo where I looked away for a split second before turning back in time. Well, that was what I thought. It managed to catch everyone smiling and me having my head turned away from the camera. No blur or anything.