Post #3363842

I read this as trans people feel pretty good about themselves until they accidentally see a picture of themselves. I’m not a selfie person, so I very rarely intend to open the front camera. I might open my phone to take a picture and get a reflection instead, and the surprise is jarring. Also, never been a fan of how I photograph in general. I hear that’s a fairly common experience. There’s even a phenomenon where you can like how you appear in the mirror, but not how you appear in video or photos. I believe this is because the mirror is real life and our lizard brains recognize that as a reflection of ourselves. However digital pictures aren’t real enough for our primitive brains, so it gives this weird feeling of otherness. Anyway, my two cents is that I just read this as not liking how I look in photos.