Reposting about photogenic.
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When I read the daily post subject of today I thought it was about what you dislike about yourself. But when I saw it’s about what’s worse, hearing your own voice or seeing yourself on video, it’s almost right.
I would say my voice. It’s OK when I talk and record my voice but when I hear it in something else, then it’s horrible. I heard my voice on the radio once when I won a competition and I sounded like my mother. That’s the least thing you want to sound like. When I answered a phone, the person on the other end thought I was her. It was not the sound of her voice, the problem was I sounded like her. Like twins. I wanted a voice of my own. Sometimes I hate my voice. I can barely listen to myself when I’m at my worse.
It’s not that unbearable when it comes to seeing myself on video. I was on TV once and I wasn’t as horrified as when I see myself on photos. That’s even worse. That’s a reason I don’t post selfies and photos where you can see me. I prefer being behind the camera. I’m just not that photogenic. When I see myself in photos as an adult, the voice in my head says, ugly. It was different when I was a kid. I was cute then. I don’t know what happened. Adding a photo of myself to a CV terrifies me. I avoid every single photo of me as much as I can. I rather let people see me in real life than in photos or videos.
In my world 
Mia–I can relate to so much of this. Selfie? Not me.
The voice thing–we had to record a message on our phones at work. Good gosh! That was me? Not my mom’s voice, but not how I thought I sounded at all.
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Weirdest thing is that when I was a child, I used to tape me talking and had no problem listening to my voice. But as kid your voice is different. Even female voices change when we get older.
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I feel your pain. You will see I always use the birds I photograph as profile pictures, my Shrek inspired face will not win me any followers, haha!
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Mason–you made me laugh. You see my cat profile picture? He is much cuter than me!
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Haha, seems we byh work on a similar wavelength. I love you cat, he looks a lovely guy,
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Dare to be different 🙂
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I am different so no need to dare. I’m a professional failure, have a demon in my shoulder and 28 books the world will never see. Yeah. Unique haha!
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