Looking in the mirror

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I can't stand looking in the mirror, or seeing photos of myself. My friend who also has AS thinks it's weird and he always tries to take pictures of me or to trick me into looking in the mirror.

Sometimes I see this when I look into the mirror..

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Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see this

I don't have a problem with seeing myself in a mirror, but I do have something that I just started noticing. If I'm given the option between looking directly at somebody or looking at their reflection I am much more comfortable looking at their reflection. I've spent quite a bit of time sitting and looking at shop windows or whatever not to see through them, but to see the reflections of the people around me.

Wow, it took me all that time to change my avatar for that semi-goofy sight gag, and I did the Rosie O'Donnell pic wrong.

And now I realize my new avatar makes me look sweaty, and slightly evil.

Since I was just thinking of posting a question like this.. I will reply before reading any other replies.

I feel odd when I look in the mirror. Almost as if its hard to recognize myself. Time seems to stand still and everything is in slow motion. I tend to loose time spacing off at nothing. The reflection and light I find draws me to stay. I feel as though I'm not looking at myself.. but looking at someone else. A dissociated feeling.

I have always stared in the mirror for long periods of time talking to myself. Scripting conversations with other people, rehashing conversations that already happened, practicing conversations that will never happen, repeating sentences over and over. Sometimes I don't even remember what I've said afterwards. I've learned to whisper most of this or at least talk in a lower voice. Sometimes I forget.

I wasn't aware that others don't do this, until my husband mentioned it to me. He said that others have those kinds of thoughts in their head sometimes, but that it doesn't come OUT. Since I repeat things under my breathe, and "pre-talk" when I say... I guess its only to be expected that I also talk to myself.

Its kind of funny, but sometimes if I'm in the bathroom in front of the mirror and my husband comes next to me to talk to me... I'll stay facing the mirror to have the whole conversation instead of turning around. I find that I can make eye contact and keep facing "him" easier if its not him I'm looking at, but instead his reflection.

I avoid looking at cameras the most I can. Rarely will I look straight ahead, preferring to turn to the side and look at something else. All pictures end up looking like great candid shots when in reality I just can't stand looking at the camera. Theres just something odd about my pictures anyway. That same disconnected feeling when I look at them.

No, I avoid looking into mirrors because they work too well.

Thank god I am not alone on this!!

I hate mirrors with a vengence and do my best to avoid them at all costs.

I have bangs that need to be cut as it is getting to the point where I can't see

The whole eyebrow thing is a nightmare seriously

It's specifically the face not the body that I have a problem with.

I'm not sure exactly how to explain this... I have trouble looking myself in the eyes in the mirror, yet I don't have a problem looking at my eyes or the rest of my face/body in the mirror. I feel fine looking at any part of my body, but looking into my eyes feels as uncomfortable as making eye contact with other people.

My dad has told me that when I was very little (probably four or five) I would look in the mirror while asking people for things. I would say "(name) wants this" or "(name) wants that". I had to be asked to look directly AT the person and make my request politely. Is that weird?

I don't mind looking at myself in the mirror. I wouldn't say I enjoy it, but it doesn't bother me.

When I look in the mirror I see this ugly, rat-looking, little creep.

I would use a mirror, yet I am so it breaks.
It is people I have trouble with sometimes.

I also have trouble looking in the mirror. I cover the mirror everytime I enter the bathroom-- my family is always making fun of me for it.