OR that I have suppressed the camera trauma.
It was not so much traumatic as just not something we usually thought about. By the time my family remembered where the cameral was and how to work it, the moment was long gone. To this day I rarely remember I have a camera on my phone until hours after anything where I might have used a camera. Most pictures of my pets, and certainly any decent pictures of them, have been taken by my picture taking obsessed friends