how autistic do you look in your childhood pictures?

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In most of the pictures of myself when I was little, I looked like a normal child, albeit very cute and bubbly.

Here's one picture of me when I was about three. I was getting on a bus for my very first day of preschool. I look a little autistic in that picture, but I might have just been nervous about the upcoming school day.

Either way, behold:

[img][800:705]http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/Mathew_2010/MathewBus001.jpg[/img]

I had to take a picture of a video of myself when I was in kindergarten, so the picture is pixelised a lot.



btw, do I look NT or Aspie?

in some i do some i dont

I don't necessarily look "autistic" in my pictures. In most of my childhood pictures, from the age of 2 up, I have a perpetually anxious look on my face - or I look "blank" and unfocused. I do have some happy, smiling ones, but my mom also had to teach me how to do a "natural" camera smile.

I'm disappointed. After looking at my pictures you can tell because my facial expressions aren't normal (completely off kilter smile) and I often have my hands/arms splayed in the air.

I didn't "look Autistic". No one looks Autistic any more than anyone else "looks NT".

Well, I didn't look like I was on some other planet in photos maybe because my Asperger's traits are milder. I would smile and make eye contact even as a little kid. I was actually pretty good about getting dressed up and sitting still back then.

I always thought I looked normal in them. But I sometimes hated my smiles and I never liked my school photos.

Here is one of my child pictures.

Sorry if this is a very dim question; but do people with autism look different?
What does this question even mean.
Don't all people look the same?
There isn't a definitive autistic look, is there?
I may have aspergers but they don't know yet. Been diagnosed with personality disorder and said maybe bipolar but my mood up and downs are too frequent.
I never want to smile. But I do, because I feel like I should.
But I don't look any different to anyone else. I'm just a normal looking woman.
No one would ever tell I have any problems.
Or do you guys mean dress sense etc.

Don't have any pictures on a computer to share. But I do look pretty autistic in some photos, blank stare and distant. At some point I learned to smile for the camera.

I look pretty normal in most of my childhood photos, especially in the ones of just me. However I do stand out in about half of group photos, especially the not posed ones. For example on a surprise photo from my first communion I am the only kid looking down with blank facial expression and staring at it's candle while all other kids look around, stare at camera or whisper to each other.

Here's me. What do you guys think?