Did you smile in school pictures as a child?

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In some I happened to be happy at the time and I smiled, in most, I had to be told to smile, then smile more. I'm still like that. My mum says that when I was a baby I had an "old", serious, world-weary looking face.

I was told to smile, and I didn't even know what it meant. If I smile, whether then or today, it's fake, and I'm only doing it because you're supposed to when happy. I'm happy most all the time (God willing), and I'd be even happier if I didn't have to remember to make some kind of a face to show it.

Charles

I smiled, but it made me look stupid as I have a very pronounced jawline, so in my last few years I just let my eyes do the smiling.

In my Year 1 photo, I'm smiling. I'm also bright red and embarrassed, and you can tell that I hate looking into the camera. I was always told to smile in photos, so I would, and now it comes more naturally since I'm used to it.

Yes but only after the photographer kept coaxing smiles. One picture ended up with a smile but I looked a little pissed off.

My parents have two versions of a class photo taken when I was about 5. I remember these photos getting taken. In the first one, I'm not smiling much, but I remember glancing at a child beside me who was smiling with her jaw open. In the second photo, I thought I should do what she was doing and I'm smiling like that, completely unnaturally for me.

My 5yr old daughter has had 2 class photos taken, on separate occasions. In the first one, she's standing with her jaw pointing upwards, as if she's trying to make herself stand out (which she does by a mile). In the second one, she looks very mature and isn't smiling but looks lovely.

I did force a smile when I had my yearly school photos taken because the (extremely irritating) photographer kept insisting that I had to smile and tried many inane gags to get me to do so. I learned to put on a smile without him asking me to in order to get through the process as quickly as possible.

Pictures taken at home? Never.

Pictures taken at school or when the family took that ridiculous trip to the photo studio that every family feels a need to do at least once in a lifetime? Yeah, but it was always forced.

when i was real youn 1-4 i didn't smile in any of my pictures...i look very serious
5+ i smile probably because I am told too or could be a happy moment...depends on the picture

I gave fake smiles as a kid. In the classroom group photos, I always looked distracted and out of place. I remember it being very hard to sit still.

no I don't remember smiling in photos except there are photos with weird faces and fake smiles . Everytime I have to smile for a photo it is fake. I seem to smile genuinely in self-pics. meaning my smile seems to reach my eyes. pics that were clicked when I was around an year old show me lost in my own world, having shutdowns and meltdowns, looking nervous, looking shy and crying. When I looked happy it looks like excessive glee. my parents never knew I had aspergers then.

Only because I was forced too and was basicaly a "rule child" and it was a rule that you smile for pictures. I stopped though after I saw some of my brothers' navy pictures where they weren't smiling and realised the world wasn't going to end if I did not smile in pictures. After that, I NEVER smiled for another school picture again. My parents actualy perfered the pictures where I wasn't smiling. They say you can tell I am autistic in my earlier pictures becuase I have a fake smilie and this "look" in my eyes.

I smiled because the photographer would say something funny and then take the picture.

I did, but it always came out weird, I can't fake a smile all that well, I just feels very wrong. I can think of maybe 3 pics from my childhood where I smiled for real.

I'd try to smile...and it'll look like I'm not smiling. So I have to reeaallllyyy exaggerate my smile to make it look alright.

shiver! I hated having to smile. My logic was that I probably spent less than 5% of my time smiling, so why make it look like it was 100% of the time in photogrhaphs.
I also disliked smiling to order.
I still hate having my photo taken.