Did you smile in school pictures as a child?

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I have some pretty goofy expressions in my childhood pictures. In school pictures I was always told to smile, but I didn't like to because it felt odd and awkward and I felt that I looked ridiculous smiling, so I didn't want to. So my school pictures are full of half smiles or weird smirks. Not sure if that has anythig to do with AS though.

They had to make me laugh when I was a kid...I had a terrible fake smile....... I still have to think about somthing to make me laugh

Nope.

Oh yes, a big, huge, cheesy smile. I always mean to smile like I actually smile in real life, then at the last minute I do the cheesy smile.

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Some yes and some no. The older I got, the harder it was for me to smile in photos. Now it's extremely hard for me to smile in photos unles I'm drunk or by myself and using my web cam.

Yes, but my facial expressions were very exaggerated.

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I didn't smile in some of my photos, but in some others, I did. Maybe it was because I was taught to (thus fake smiles), or I just did it naturally. I remember one school photo of me as a kid, on which it looked more like I was smirking than smiling.

Only if someone tells me to, otherwise I'm just standing there staring blankly.

Occasionally as a child, but only because I was told to. As an adult, never. It's just another one of those stupid societal rules that I abhor. "Oh, you HAVE to smile when having your picture taken!" Like hell I do.

I have only attempted to once, but it came out as a creepy "Christopher Walken is watching you pee" kind of sneer thing.

no.
sometimes i seemed busy, and other times i was pulling faces (before year 5)

Actually, I did. Also I was looking through some photo albums last night, with lots of pictures of me as a child aged between 5 and 11, and I was smiling in nearly all of them, the only ones I weren't smiling in were the ones where I didn't know the picture was being taken at the time.

There is one picture I've got what would fool you. It's one of me and my 2 cousins of the same age on holiday, and if I posted it here and asked you which one was the Aspie, you would probably of guessed the one in the middle, who looked a little edgy in this photo for some reason and had a stiff, serious face (we were all 10 years old).

So I think that's one Autistic trait I haven't got, because I did smile and look sociable in a lot of pictures, even as a baby I was smiling at the camera (well, in most of them. Not all babies smile in every picture).

Does anybody have it when you're posing in a photo and the photographer is taking the photo and tells everyone to smile but since it doesn't come naturally to you and even if you try to smile by thinking of something you just can't and you get anxious so you try to smile and your lips twitch and you can't hold the smile? I've had that a lot recently and in most of my older school photos.

I smiled because I was told to. I remember one year the photographer told me to say "yes" as he took the photo, and sure enough, I looked like I was saying "yes" in the photo.