Aspergers and the blank stare in childhood photos

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I looked off in my childhood photographs because I would be expressionless and then smile when I was told to. Nothing changed except for my mouth.

The pics I have seen of myself between the ages of two and five have that blank stare. Before the age of almost two, my pics were very normal. It is very noticeable during that age range though in most of my pics. But after that age I seemed to be much more engaged in pictures and my pics look normal for the most part. There were some blank stare pics as an older kid but not nearly as many as when I was very little.

I looked through a lot of photos I appeared in as a kid, and while I didn't really exhibit the blank stare in many of them, I was often oblivious of what was going on.

No blank stare in photos - I learned to fake a nice smile at an early age because mom told me what to do with my face. However, I couldn't fake NT motion, so watching myself in childhood videos is downright painful. You could tell something wasn't right. Thank God I grew out of most of that.

My mom used to take a lot of candid photos of me, where I wasn't aware that my picture was being taken, and i would do this a lot--often in photos I'm looking off to the side, as if I'm staring through something and not at it.

I just looked through some photos of a lively, interested baby. No blank stare. Later, from 4 years I am less fond of photographers and tend to look away. At the first school picture I smile, but look like an excuse for myself. I remember how I shrunk.
All later pictures are gone. Thrown out, - by me.

There was one situation where my expression froze for three to four seconds face to face with a friend, and if someone had taken a picture it would look like I was staring into space..funny thing is..this never happened to me in high school, or in middle school, in all those years everything was fine, but in this one situation I completely zoned out and gave the wrong impression