Does anyone have experience with training themselves not to look autistic in photos anymore? I still seem to instinctually hunch and winck when someone gets a camera out which is what I did through the entirely of my childhood and I would like to look like a normal person now.
>>43166627masking is bad for you. you will never be a normal person
>>43166876I don't have autism, I'm recovering form depersonalization/derealization and trying to figure out how my body interacts with the space around it.
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>>43166627Do you do that instinctively? Are you frightened of being in photos?I try to rember a genuinely happy memory or a funny joke to fuel a Real smile.
>>43166909I have this so badly, C-PTSD is hell and nobody even likes to admit you have it
>>43166876i don't understand how it's actually bad for the person doing it
>>43167562>how is acting 24/7 bad for your psyche and mental health?
>>43167602NTA but I assume I'm in a similar situation.I am a happy friendly person in general and people like and approach me even though I'm a weirdo. No 24/7 masking. The problem is the opposite: I automatically mask when I get my photo taken.Someone tells me to pose for a photo and I have to consciously position every muscle in my body in some way to pose and I don't know how to stop doing that. Even if I try to think how I'd act naturally I literally lose the ability to do it. I cannot consciously take a photograph without acting.It results in terribly awkward photographs unless they are candid and I don't know that there's a camera around. Even my friends and gf who have tried to help me take pictures tell me they don't understand why I'm so bad at posing for photos.
>>43166876There's nothing worse than being clocked as autistic actually.
>>43166627>seem to instinctually hunch and winck
>>43166627same but for most stuff, im so used to being a grumpy emotionless slate in real life>>43166876i dont really find it to be acting, who or how i am isnt a static thing, sometimes you dont want to be a certain way but cant really stop naturally, it's like voice training but for your personality kind ofyou're not acting just learning to be different in a way you likewomen practice doing expressions like all the time and post it all online from like 13 till death
