Did you smile in school pictures as a child?

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yes, because they made you smile or you'd hold up the line of kids waiting. Finally, I refused to go to those stupid picture taking sessions. And when my Dad (rip) would attempt to take my picture, I would wait until he was just about to press the button on the camera, then I'd spin around. The picture would show the back of me. ha. Except, he did not think it was funny. I was always in trouble anyway.
- I don't recommend trying this. It makes NT's really mad.

I always smiled in school photos, even if I was feeling bad.

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An Asperger's man who has Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1- mild, with a sprinkling of Synesthesia.

Not only did I smile, I usually had the widest one.

I tended to have closed-mouth smiles that people would comment on 'cause I didn't know that opening your mouth had anything to do with a smile.

Depending on the day I would either giggle too much or not smile at all LOL.

Every year i got in trouble when my school photos got mailed to my parents. Why weren't you smiling? i tried my hardest, didn't know what i was doing wrong. Not that i never smiled naturally, but it was something that was practically impossible to do spontaneously, especially put on the spot asked to do it. I still hate pictures, but i just try to not think too much about it and they usually end up being passable, but they get worse the more attempts as i try to think about it. Funny. shouldn't have to think how to smile.

My mom demanded that I smile. I used to practice in front of my mirror so I wouldn't get in trouble. I was never very good at it. I learned though.

There is a funny thing about smiling in pictures. In the old days a long long time ago, nobody smiled in pictures. Anyway I smiled in almost all of my school pictures.

Not early on, kindergarten or first grade. After that I learned how to fake a smile (but yeah, it looks fake).

~Kate

I never smiled in school pictures.I have always hated having my picture taken.

I can't really remember but I got a chipped tooth in the first grade and won't ever do an open lipped smile unless I'm actually so happy it slips out. I certainly won't pose for a picture that way.

When I was in seventh grade when they took the pictures they held something in front of my mouth when I wouldn't smile. I can only assume it was something to make it easier for them to paste a fake smile in later. I never got school pictures since sixth grade I think and never got any yearbooks so I never saw what they did with that picture.

I just looked through some of my early childhood pictures and in half of them I'm not even looking anywhere near the camera, I might be smiling in some of them but I'm looking at the floor or off in some other direction while everyone else is smiling at the camera. I have tears running down my face in my kindergarten picture ... in the rest of them (with some awful exceptions) I'm either faking a good smile or a good photographer made me laugh but in almost every group picture I'm staring off into space.

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Hmm, I'll try to be succinct.
No!
If & when anyone even tried to take my picture. I seldom smile today, even when I am happy. Unless I remember I should..

Sincerely,
Matthew

I have not read the replies.

At my parents house there's a picture of me taken in kindergarten, when I was about 4 years old.

My smile looks kinda strange in the picture and I'm holding a toy.

I can actually remember the photographer trying to coax me to smile, and the combination of the toy and the silly photographer made my lips twitch for a second, and I'll have to express my admiration for the photographers skill as he was able to capture that in a split second.

There's also a couple of pictures of me from grade/elementary school where I smile, but the smile looks strained and I don't recognize myself in those pictures. I see that it's me, but the facial expression is off.

I start to smile, then when the flash goes, the picture comes out and I'm squinting and frowning.