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The secret to a perfect smile is much like what Tinkerbell suggested to Peter Pan: Think happy thoughts.

With that secret, I smile perfectly every time.

My mom has always said that you can tell I am autistic in my early childhood photographs becuase I have a fake smile and this "look" in my eyes.

In my old ID picture, I was definitely thinking I was doing a huge grin when it was being taken, but in reality it looked like I was crying (minus tears). I was baffled when I saw it. I've found my "smile niche" by kind of doing a cocky-looking half-grin so that I come across as just more laid back rather than unable to smile.

Makayla, Nirrti, you both look adorable! Makayla, you seem to have the feature that the corners of your lips curl a bit upwards even when your face is neutral. It makes you look milder.

I rarely smile. I only smile if I am laughing at something, and that something ha to be highly hilarious for me to laugh. I am always the one with the "serious" look while everyone else is smiling in photos.

I personally do not see the purpose of smiling in photos anyway, I just stare at the camera as I was staring at a painting or a book.

I have a real problem with having my photo taken, in fact i almost go into panic mode. The reason for this is that I look really autistic on photo's and it just scares me. I know it shouldn't but it just does.

I had to be taught how to smile for pictures and I'm still not good at it.. I don't really smile even when I'm happy, I smirk. When I was younger and people told me to smile for the camera.. Apparently it looked like I was going to be sick because it was a closed mouth smile, but then they said I looked like I was gnarling with an open mouth smile.. The trick that finally got a somewhat ok smile was to say the word "Pepsi" in a really exaggerated face moving way and to snap the picture at the end of the word. I still look really awkward though.

Just try saying "Hee, hee, hee" quietly. You should also make sure that the muscles around your eyes work in concert with the muscles of the mouth, i.e. just slightly tight.

Does it look natural? I mean, the smile.



(Hey, first contemporary pic!)

OJani, I can't decide who's more handsome, you or the puppy. You're photogenic.

For me, it's as if the camera stares at me. I hope I'm going to look better than I have in the past, (my mouth usually seems weird) Seconds tick by, and the picture I didn't want taken in the first place, still hasn't been taken. I wonder why it's taking so long, and assume it must be something I'm not doing right.

But, how is it done right? Stress stiffens the smile, tenses the other facial muscles. You want it to be over. Maybe you start getting annoyed. Why do they always insist on inflicting their unwanted social rituals. Why can't these snaps be unposed. More authentic, right?

Actually, it's funny but it took me ages to figure out why people wanted those photos. My memory is really visually based. So, given a choice of all these interesting unposed images, why, oh why, would anyone want those boring, even red-eyed, monstrosities? It was a mystery.

I have a hard time taking photos, I could never smile on the cue.

My mum said that in photos, when I'm told to smile, I go bug-eyed and big grin. I didn't think I was, though. I have gotten better at that by taking photos of myself