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Yes, they make me look fat.

This is going to sound weird (well, so far everyone I've spoken to about it has told me it's weird), but I get really uncomfortable with seeing my image in mirrors or photos (I run away very quickly from video cameras so that's not an issue).
I know where I am. But when I've got a mirror in front of me, I'm there too. Then I get confused because I can't be sure where and who I am any more, and it's upsetting. If you want to leave me curled up and withdrawn, take me into one of those totally mirror-tiled bathrooms without warning me to close my eyes first.
Does this make sense, or am I being incomprehensible again?

Contrary to the majority of posters here, I don't mind mirrors much. It's better for me to have them, but I wouldn't freak out if I didn't have any...

I tend to feel very uncomfortable watching my image in movies and photographs, but for whatever reason I don't find that to be the case in the presence of a mirror. Although, as one said before me, it's weird to think that everybody else sees a reversed image of how I appear in the mirror.

yea i hate watching my own image (video recording, etc.), i don't know why i can't stand the way i look from someone's point of view and it's somewhat unsettling..lack of self-confidence, perhaps?..the sound of my recorded voice also makes my skin crawl

I don't like mirrors. When I see myself, I experience a kind of dissonance because I look so different than I feel. It's very disconcerting, so I avoid it when I can.

I shouldn't look in mirrors, i start to obsess, i'll examine all my (perceived) flaws and try to strategize ways of fixing them. When i'm going out i'll constantly have to change my cloths, hair etc, because i'll look in the mirror and it'll just be...wrong. This has actually stopped me from leaving my house on occasion.

I'm trying to get around my mirror fixation by not wearing my glasses when i face a mirror and keeping my distance so that i can't see myself.