I don’t have one photo of me as a child

[Inigoan]

I’m currently working with a therapist on some inner child stuff (I know how wanky that sounds)

She asked me to bring a photo of my me as a child to our next session. There literally isn’t one. I feel too embarrassed to tell her there aren’t any.

My mum says she thinks she had some but she threw them out after her last move

Is there anyone else who doesn’t have any childhood photos? Or is this just another example of my crappy family

My ex has two pictures of him as a baby his mom said it was because her previous son died (before his first birthday) but she has none of him either her firstborn she has loads of

I have barely any of my ds. And none of me.........there just wasnt the money. Photos werent even on the radar when food.and clothing was a struggle..

There is 1 of me but none of brothers number 2 and 3, but lots of brother number 1.
Mum said she just couldn’t afford a camera and film, let alone processing it.
I just got a photo because I was number 4 and a girl.

My first is aged around 6/7 and I think that's the only one before aged 10. It doesn't make me feel good.

Photography was really expensive back then. People had to buy the ( expensive) camera, and the film, and then you had to pay an extortionate amount of money to get them developed. And even then, the pictures you took could turn out blurry or overexposed and you would have wasted your money.

I'm in m y 60's and I've got maybe 6 pictures each of my two children when they were young. The fact that you don't have any might sound awful, but not every family could afford the luxury of taking pictures of their children in times gone by.

I don't have any of me either my parents couldn't afford a camera it was a lot of expense back then.

The family was quite rich an he is in his 30s they just don't bother taking pictures 🤷‍♀️ even when the first grandchild arrived we gave them a nanny bragging book full of pictures she cut them out and scrapbook them and returned them to us to make a scrapbook i hate scrapbooking

My family has loads of photos at one point but I think it's because dementia runs in the family it's like we need to keep a record of memories for when we lose ours

What I find very upsetting about your post is that your mother threw away the photos! That is such an odd thing to do. I'd be very hurt by that.

I think it depends on how old you are. Nowadays photos are very common, once they weren’t. However the throwing away comment is odd, but I’m guessing theres a bigger reason you need counselling meaning your childhood wasnt great. Sorry

We moved around a lot so after each move we got rid of stuff to the point of moving with a suitcase and small van. Photos were superfluous.

I don’t like my picture taken as an adult so I actually don’t think there are any pictures in existence.

My parents don’t have any photos of them as children. Although my mum has a photo of when she was about 8 and that was it. My parents did not grow up in the Uk and did not have a camera. Probably was very expensive. Mum said that they would have someone in the village who’d take photos. Parents born in the 60s and only really have photos of them from the 80s.

I don't because I was the ugly child. My siblings have their own dedicated albums, my mother would joke that it was hard to believe that somebody as ugly as me could be from her family.

I don't because I was the ugly child. My siblings have their own dedicated albums, my mother would joke that it was hard to believe that somebody as ugly as me could be from her family.

Tw1n that is so sad, what a horrible thing for your mother to say! I could never ever imagine saying that to my child.

I was born in 1983, I’m not sure how expensive photography was back then.

I remember the photos and old letters etc were in a big zip up plastic bag. She said she didn’t have time to go through it all and it was mostly old letters and not important. I know there were photos in there though