Not face blind

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To clarify, I was talking about prosopagnosia.

prosopanosia has degrees of severity. Seems like what others have posted are in the realm of possibility,

Ah. In that case, no.

I'm very, very faceblind. I know AS people who are very, very not faceblind, though.

I never forget names. The bank of names in my head is probably a lot larger than most people of a similar age to me. I can never put a name to a face though, unless I've met them about 5 times. If they age or change hair colour, forget it. I feel like a racist sometimes because I'm forever calling black and Asian people by the wrong name at work. Then I realise that I do it to white people all the time as well, only less of them visit my workplace

I also never forget anyone's life story, even if I don't see them for years. I have fun plotting the trajectory of different people's lives, and then when I see them years later, and they get annoyed because I didn't recognise them, and we have a chat, I like to gauge how accurate I was. The details of people's lives and relationships are a special interest of mine, although I'm not particularly nosy. I just never remember what people look like!

My brain is like a filing cabinet crammed with names and personal details but no photographs. It must be quite annoying to people that I remember what bus they take, how many sugars they like in their tea, and where they buy their food, etc...but I don't recognise their face unless I see them on a weekly basis.

I wouldn't say I'm face-blind, but I'm definitely not that good with faces. I am, however, very good at remembering names. If I see a person once, I'll probably forget him unless he has some sort of distinctive facial feature. Once I see someone a few times, I can recognize him easily, as long as he doesn't change his hair. But I get really tripped up when someone is out of context - for example, I can easily identify my professors when I see them around campus. If I saw one of them at the beach, I wouldn't recognize them. I deal with problems like haircuts and context by paying close attention to people's facial features. Especially noses; for some reason I'm good at remembering those.

I'm really not face blind, I even recognize people by shape/s. Do I remember peoples names, nope.
When I was on a festival ones I recognized my ex-gf from .... erm a lot of meters away. and she was surprised and asked how the hell I could see her with her back turned and 1000 people around. And I said I saw her hair.

I took one of those face blindness tests and was very confused because I scored in the normal range. But thinking about it, my problem is probably not prosopagnosia. Because if I concentrate on someone's face like I did in the test, then I can pick out details and remember them later. But I don't normally concentrate on people like that. I've had many embarrassing moments where I'd talk to someone and have to return to them later, and I couldn't for the life of me pick them out. I think it's perhaps because I was concentrating on what they were saying rather than what they look like.

However, I do also have trouble telling people apart if they have similar hair, unremarkable faces, and dress similarly. I'm forever getting 2 similar people mixed up. Like Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe. I swear they are the same person.

I can even remember clinging to some random woman's leg in a store when I was a kid because I thought she was mother. She had similar hair and dressed the same way; she must be mommy!

I'm also hopeless with names. I forget them 30 seconds after the person tells me.

Face-blindness tends to refer to emotional expressions and people on the spectrum from what I've read usually have no problems ascertaining expressions if it is a still image.

The problem occurs when the face is in motion in real life or on a video.

I'm going with I think so, a bit. I can't ever recall details of people's faces and, if I don't know the person well, I can be totally thrown by a drastic hair change.

I just found this face blindness test and thought I'd share. I got an abysmal score of 56%...

http://www.faceblind.org/facetests/fgcf ... _intro.phpWeb Page Name

I took that before and I disagreed with my score. Most people agree with it when the score is low, but sometimes not when it's high. It was low and I disagreed.

It shows 6 faces at a time which bothers me, before I can't remember information when that much is presented to me at one time.

It did say it was not meant as a diagnostic tool. I also have a hard time with bland looking people, and I thought those faces were really bland looking. Most people aren't that bland.

However, I really, really, really, really don't think I have this but the test said I might. Is this possible?

Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 50.
In other words, you got 69% correct.

Interesting test. I could only recall a few of those faces from the group so the second time I tried to put more focus on the faces I forgot about.
Also, the faces not in the group made me feel uncertain, while the familiar faces made me feel more comfort. That explains my confused look when a person comes up to me and I don't know who they are, until they finally tell me. It may also explain why I'm so reluctant to approach strangers.

Since I am now confusing the face of a blond girl and a brunette, I cannot deny my face blindness. It's hard for me to study the details and every time I see the face of someone I know, it seems different.

I took a couple of these face/eyes tests and scored poorly, also remember taking a face one about 10 years ago scoring poorly as well. The weird thing is I used to think I was good at these things.

Tests can only give you an idea, they can't tell you everything.