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24 Jun 2011, 11:06 pm

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.



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24 Jun 2011, 11:23 pm

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.


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24 Jun 2011, 11:27 pm

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



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25 Jun 2011, 6:12 am

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).

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25 Jun 2011, 6:17 am

OJani wrote:
In at least half of the pictures I have the same expression on my face as in my avatar, but there is 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).

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Cool pic. I'd describe the flat effect as inabillity of the brain to control one's facial gestures.



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25 Jun 2011, 9:05 am

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


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25 Jun 2011, 11:03 am

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.


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25 Jun 2011, 1:01 pm

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



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25 Jun 2011, 1:22 pm

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.