It’s like your looking at pictures of a kid you vaguely recognize but can even remember them. “Where do I know that kid from??”

  • Shortstack@reddthat.com
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    7 hours ago

    It goes a step beyond for me.

    I look at kid pictures of myself and think I was an ugly looking baby. Everyone else thinks I was cute. Which I take to mean everyone is being polite, but I couldn’t care less because I don’t remember being that kid whatsoever.

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      4 hours ago

      Everyone else thinks I was cute. Which I take to mean everyone is being polite

      I don’t know if this helps, but someone who loves the adult-you will absolutely look at your baby photos through the same filter as they look at you now. They’ll see those photos as a little peek into the past of someone they already like. So you could genuinely be ugly as hell as a kid–but if they like you now, that’s not gonna matter to them, you’ll be cute.

      This doesn’t have such a large age-gap, but someone I knew had a crush on me looked at my employee photo (that I fucking HATED) and decided they liked my “little smirk”. Why did they love the photo I hated? Because they had an emotional connection to me (on their side at least) anyhow.

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      6 hours ago

      All babies looks ugly to me… I think its a social construct to say babies are good looking…

      Or maybe just a different “beauty” category.