flat affect as a kid.

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Well I was looking up how specialists diagnose autism and aspergers so I stumbled upon pictures of me from 1-10. In most of them I display a blunted affect and an inability to smile on cue. Now I'm almost certain I'm on the spectrum as nothing else causes this, I only wish my parents knew something was wrong with me.

I still have that flat effect. It's definitely one of my most obvious symptoms of AS, and could quite possibly be the one that gives me the most problems.

Me too, as pointed out by my girlfriend a million times. I like having a permanent poker face though, half the time.

In at least half of the pictures I have the same expression on my face as in my avatar, but there are a number of pictures that prove I could smile, like in this one (can you see it?, my twin sister in the right does a way better job showing her emotion behind our crossed torches).

I never looked blunt in any pictures, from birth to aged 13. Then since I got to my teens onwards, I pull ugly faces.

My mom says I sounded like a robot from a bad 50's B movie as a kid. She also says you could tell I was autistic in pictures becuase I had a fake smile and this "look" in my eye.

Is it that looking somewhere outside of this world look? I noticed that in my pictures, as if I was looking "through" the camera.

Like Sammicheater, I still have flat effect. My therapist called it "muted effect" and outright admitted to me this week that I am very hard for her to read.

I actually appreciated her framing it that way, given that most of the literature frames this as a deficit on my part, and she made it clear it was a deficit on hers.