Avoiding photos because you hate what you look like

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Does anyone else do this?

It seems I can't stand being in any sort of photo and if I am, I always seem to find a reason as to why people can't see it.

I don't want to have any records of what I look like when I'm older because I simply hate my appearance so much, so pretty much only have selfies.

I always thought this was normal, but clearly it's not.

It's taken me a long time to come to terms with how I look in pictures.
Usually I'm looking past the camera, or worse, directly into the lens.
One of my childhood pictures was described by the Missus as looking like a young Hitler(! !)
I've gotten older and I really don't care how I look.
The closest I can describe myself is imagine ben franklin on a bad day.

Oh Hale Bopp---I bet you are your own worst enemy!

Yes I avoid being in photos whenever possible. It's not my physical appearance that bothers me but the kind of expressions I end up having on my face. When I smile for a photo I think I look like a simpleton.

Couldn't have said it better. I have always hated how I look and from early teens on I avoided photos of myself whenever possible. Very few photos exist of me as an adult.

Photos of me don't really bather me all that much. It's hearing my own voice recorded that I absolutely cannot stand and it get worse when you're editing video of you in it.

Right now I hate it because I am about 60 pounds overweight and I hate how I look when I am fat.

I do this but so do all the other women I know, and none of them are autistic...

I can't stand being in photos. I don't like the way I look-- my smiles seem weird and out of place.



This so much. I have a very nasal voice. I can't imagine what it does to others since it drives me nuts. I found it interesting to read that nasal voices are very common is AS.

Last edited by perpetual_padawan on 03 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I don't hate what I look like, but I hate my expression in most photos. I can't smile on cue, so in most pictures I either look bored, crazy (when I try to fake-smile), or even drugged-out (I don't and never have done drugs btw). When I take pictures of myself in the mirror I am able to get a decent-looking expression, but no matter how much I practice I can't seem to replicate that without a mirror in front of me! I only keep like 10% of the pictures of me because of my facial expressions, and also partly because most of the people that wind up taking pictures of me are terrible photographers.

Even though my employer uses a picture of me on their website and the photographer told me how great I look, I still cannot stand looking at or hearing myself. My mother is much the same way even though she looks quite good for someone her age she will hide when anyone pulls out a camera.

I hate candid pictures of me!! But overall I'm happy with my looks and actually don't mind being in pictures if I'm aware one will be taken.

I don't like hearing my voice either. I don't like my accent or the way I sound younger than I am. And it usually ends up being in a video of me playing with cats and talking to them in a baby voice so I sound even more ridiculous.

I vividly remember the first time I heard my voice on a recording, when I was a kid, I was absolutely horrified and have hated it ever since.

When I see myself on video I feel like it's a different person, not me, it doesn't look the way I feel inside.

I don't mind a structured portrait of me alone, but pictures of me in settings with other people makes me really uncomfortable.

It's like it becomes painfully obvious how disconnected I am to everyone else in the situation.

I don't like being in pictures either, but I don't hate the way I look. I just don't like being in pictures. It's a really strong dislike, and I'm not sure why... I don't mind the mirror at all.

Also totally hate my voice. When I have time I'll try and work on it, and my accent.

I often hate the way I look in photos. And dislike my recorded voice.

I hate selfies, because I am always shocked by my own face. I think I am feeling happy and good but the guy in the photo looks angry or unhappy. Sometimes I try to put on a happy, smiley face and then it usually takes two or three tries to get it partly convincing. The first retry has a smiling mouth, but the eyes are all wrong, so I do the Smiling with your Eyes thing, then I have to pretend I am playing a happy character and trying to emote all over the place/sell the performance to an audience.... and then it is almost right.

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