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Thought so. That smile just look too good for an aspie.

I'm often not making good eye contact with the camera. Especially in school photos.
This one is pretty typical:

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Sorry, glitchy system.

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Sorry again, glitchy system.

This is me at 18 months, dont know if this is an "Aspie stare" or not, I always think I look rather wiser than an 18 month old should look, but I had been through a lot by then.



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It's a beautiful photo of you. Perhaps the experts on this thread will know. ^

Most people are told to smile for photos, and your face defiantly has that trademark aspie smile to it.

I was always told that if the child is not looking at the camera properly, it is the camera person's fault.

You seem to have the dreamy look, Ezra. Nice photo of you!

your face defiantly has the aspie smile to it. It's that shy/hesitant look to it.

Nah, I can't be bothered to try that. Maybe I'll take a few of them and go to a scanner tomorrow before work (at 5 PM) just so I can show you what I mean. My mum wants to go together and scan all the photos and get rid of the albums because she has tons of them and they're taking up a lot of space in her closet. Her closet got flooded recently and a lot of her paper documents got wet- luckily nothing important was destroyed beyond repair. The albums survived the incident but she thinks it's safer and more convenient to keep them on the computer and have digital copies of everything. She said most people just store their photos online nowadays, it doesn't bother me as long as there's a copy of everything somewhere.

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I'm not quite sure. I think there were a few like that. My mom has all my childhood pics.

Found something weird, I appear to have adopted one smile that I always use for family photos...it looks identical in all of the pictures where the photo has been posed

Somewhat off topic here but 2 years or so ago I started digitizing all of the families photos. Lots of trial and error along the way but have the process down now. I haven't worked in the last 2 1/2 years so it has been one of the things I have been doing to keep from going totally insane.

1. Prints are the worst thing to try and scan, not as much detail and many fade and get stained over time. If you have the original negatives or slides they work extremely well. However you may run across colour shift depending upon the emulsion, age, storage conditions, etc. After two failed attempts I settled on this critter:

Scanner

Works well for negatives, slides, and prints.

2. For the colour shift and balancing I use this:

AfterShot Pro

Works wonders with the scanned pics and also great for improving and fixing your digital pics which is the purpose it was designed for.

3. Get a good image manipulation software. GIMP is great and it is free. Many swear by PhotoShop but it is pricey!! I use PaintShop Pro and it is far cheaper and works as well in my opinion. If wait for sale I got it for $30 and you can't go wrong.

Know that this takes much time. But also know that the photographs fade and colour shift over time. Eventually will be lost as that is the way of film. Some degrades badly in as little as 10 years, some at 50 look good. When I started I was shocked how badly most had aged. That sent me on one of my latest obsessions of preserving the family pics for generations to come. And for especially an Aspie, obsessions are good right? One more that can keep you occupied.

Sorry for long rant, just hate to see memories lost for families. Once they are gone, their gone.

Any need help feel free to PM I will do all I can. I am over 17,000 pics so far done for the immediate family. Yes I am obsessed.

I have almost never made eye contact with a camera at all.

Oddly enough, my mom was going through the family photos today. I have the "Aspie look" in a lot of them in that I look like I'm "looking through" the camera rather than responding emotionally to it. I tended to have either a serious or distracted look in my childhood pictures, especially as a toddler. I didn't start giving "camera smiles" until I was 7-8 or so.