Prosopagnosia

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I have heard this can be related to autism. I scored 54% on the Cambridge face memory test. I was surprised at this because I thought my face memory was average to quite good.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychol ... tartup.php

I have Prosopagnosia. I usually will only recognize people by their hairstyle, glasses, or other things like that. I often have trouble recognizing my own family.

58%! I did much better than expected!

67%. I can't believe it, I thought I was horrible at recognizing faces.

I got 94%, which is apparently above average. I definitely don't have prosopagnosia.

I think i have it, but I use all the other available data to make up for it.

One of my co-workers walked up to me and he had his glasses pushed up on his head so it changed his hair.

I didn't know who he was until I watched him walk.

I received a 68%, but I was guessing for about 70% of the test.

I definitely have it. Walking around to class and such in college there are many people that know me yet I don't recognize them for a good 2 min. I never recognize people I know from the gym outside of the gym because I don't see them outside of that context. have had people literally had to shout my name sometimes with a wtf voice

Forget what my score was on the test but I have it too. Not the most severe kind -- I can recognize friends and family -- but if it's someone i know incidentally, like someone at a doctor's office or a friend of my stepmother, I can't recognize them out of context. It makes for some very awkward encounters because not only do I not recognize them, when I figure out who they probably are I'm not entirely certain so still afraid to call them by name.

Yep, count me in. It's a horrible, embarrassing problem to have when you can't even recognize your immediate family members at parties and other group events.

I got 68%, and 80% is what is considered average? I thought I was better at this.
I do find it hard to remember someone's face after seeing them for the first time, but after a while, I begin to know what their face looks like and remember it beetter.

88%, which is high average, but I think the test didn't test the kind of issue I have--if the person's appearance changes in any way (age, wearing glasses, different hairdo, facial expression, even being in a different environment) then I have trouble recognizing them. The less familiar I am with that person, the more trouble I'll have.

I also can't picture people's faces (not even family members')--just individual facial features like eyes, nose, chin, etc. I can picture my wife's eyes and nose, my brother's chin and hair, and my mom's mouth and hair, but not much else (which makes me think I can manage eye contact with my wife better than with my brother and mom.

I amazingly got a 65%, but a lot of that was just hitting random keys. I definitely recognize people by their posture, hair, glasses, and voice much more than their faces.