in childhood photos, are you smiling?

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I did, but only because I was told to

as a kid i used to force smile on photos, again because i was told to smile. however now that im older i hate smiling in photos. being on camera in general makes me feel extremely awkward and unnatural, smiling on camera is out of the question.

I have never smiled for a camera.

If I accidently do, I demand the picture be erased or destruction of the camera will occour.

I was, but my mother wouldnt give up until I did the cute little girl thing and gave a smile. My husband, on the other hand, usually did not. We're both on the spectrum.

I smile in some childhood photos.

Whenever expressed happiness, my family snatched the camera and took lots of cute photos.

I didn't smile for the camera. I had crying fits when someone asked to take a photo.

Same here, although it was only sometimes smiling on cue (often looking quite fake when I did), and only after awhile of not doing so (and any smiles prior to then were captured during candid moments by my mom, who is a pretty good amateur photographer). I did generally look at the camera, though, because I was interested in most circular things.

At this point if I see a camera I definitely don't smile, because I don't want some cheesy stupid grin and because I have more trouble smiling on cue now than I used to anyway, I tried once recently and just succeeded in looking constipated. I've found that if I do manage to point my eyes at it these days, I often appear as if glaring or hostile, too, so I don't bother trying that anymore generally either unless I'm going for that effect.

Hmm, well. In all my pictures I look generally happy. I always posed for my pictures, it would irritate my Dad and he wouldn't want to take pictures with me. haha
But in a lot of them, especially the ones where they'd get the whole family together I probably wouldn't smile and generally everyone in my family looked pretty awkward in the photos. So, I don't look too out of place.
I have a lot of pictures of my autistic little boy smiling big toothy smiles.

I loved posing for the camera when I was little. There's a couple pictures of me when I was in kindergarten when I was posing just like a supermodel! lol

Well, I certainly can't speak for everyone, but my son always loved to pose for pictures, and almost always smiled. I think he liked the attention of a camera, and he still does, lol. My husband usually smiled in his pictures as well, at least the ones I've seen so far and the ones we've had taken since I've known him. He has a wonderful smile that lights up his whole face. When we're with his father and they both smile, it's like looking at twins. Some of our wedding pictures from last fall where he and his father are both in them and smiling are real treasures to me (of course, he smiled in all of ours as well, lol). I've also known AS/ASD who don't like to smile too much, so I think it just depends on the person, like everything else.

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In about half the photos I have this manic grin.

I the other half I am either scowling, serious or downright unhappy.

She really liked the unhappy ones. Then she could say there was something wrong with me. Some parents have something wrong with them!

In my earliest photos of say, 2 or 3 years old, I had this wide-eyed, "deer in the headlights" surprised expression. Then later, I had this forced, cheesy smile, because I was told to smile. Some of my school portraits had either the forced smile, or a blank expression, though I was beginning to practice better 'staged' smiles, because I couldn't understand why I had to smile for pictures, if I didn't feel like doing so... in my high school reunion photo, when I was 32, there's a video clip of me jokingly arguing with the photographer when he told me to smile, and I made the oddest expressions that I was certainly not aware of, then finally my features schooled themselves into a more pleasant expression for the photo, itself.

In my earliest childhood pictures, like about 2-3 years old I smiled like you would say a genuine smile. Then, I started loosening this smiling habit at all. Only in few 'happy' situations I would do it, but never like when I was 3 anymore. Actually I have some of when I had 5 that also I am scared to look at, because of the seriousness and deepeness of my face there.

No! Hiding behind my fingers of my left hand at 12 mo. on a rocking horse, playing peek-a-boo behind a black checkered couch at 18 mo., peeking out from behind the hanging bath towel at 24 mo. peeking out from behind a door, the clothes on the cloth line, looking left and looking right, my favorite the wide spread fingered hand in front of my face, was there ever a day that I wasn't hiding. Maybe I was smiling on the inside, but I don't think so, not back then, but some times thats the case now i'm smiling on the inside and some times still with a wide spread fingered hand in front of my face.

Ugh, I hate taking pictures..

And at times when I have to take pictures, I just glare at the camera showing no expression. I also hate it when people force me to smile for a camera. I'll smile when I want to, goddamn. Stop forcing me >:(

i was not confendent smiling in my preteens..i didnt know how and my mouth cudnt quite do it. I used to smile with my lips pursed together and show my dipples (coz thats what my mum always sedi had to show 'my dipples' uch)
then at 14-15 i got up mouth traintrack braces and after they came off i loved smiling no ive mastered how to smile in photos

Under 6 years old i seem to have a stare with my mouth open or im having a tantrum.Then in the photographs of me over that age i smile more.