Not recognizing someone

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Same with me. It happens to me often, but I can usually figure out who they are if I get them talking long enough. I've done it to people who were actually good friends with me at one point. If they are people I've just me, it's bad. I've actually had them say to me, "You don't know who I am, do you?" That's when I think I'm actually pulling off an acting job so they won't notice. I don't know what you can do about it. I find faces blend. I remember people the best when I have an intense interest that I share with them and I see them frequently.

"Oh, hi there," I find myself saying. I don't have a clue who they are. In college, people used to wave at me from cars and there wasn't a chance in hell that I would recognize them through a pane of glass. I felt rather stupid.

As if that isn't bad enough, I have a sister who looks just like me - not twins, but people mistake us for each other. So sometimes I really haven't met a person before - they think I'm my sister. It happens to her too. We check with each other - "Do you know somebody who <description>"

I can only recognize people if I see them on a regular basis. I can't count the number of times someone comes up to me and says hello and I just draw a complete blank. It will take 5-10 minutes before I can recognize them and sometimes never.

Am I the only one who's the opposite and recognises people they don't know?
Also, what should you do if you don't recognise someone? Am I supposed to pretend I do? I can usually recognise someone but not remember where I recognise them from.

I never remember what people look like. Only stuff about what they might wear but it gets confusing. It is not 100% but I can be bad.

This girl who went to my martial art startled me on the tube just the other day. That was bad enough but I was like who is this? Fortunately she did all the talking so I soon found out.

'Twas my 50th birthday. A friend invited me to his house. A couple of people were at the kitchen table. Not my business.

They were my sister and brother in law!

Yesterday at Good Friday mass, a blond woman came up to my NT mother and exchanged greetings with her. Then the woman looked at me and my NT sister and said, "OH MY! THEY'RE SO GROWN UP!" She looked at me at said, "With him, you could make a twin!" I blessed myself and ran out, a little freaked out.

I have no idea who this woman was or why she was there at church.
She was most likely Gwen, my IEP officer from kindergarten to 2nd grade.
I'm now in 11th grade, a junior in HS and I avoid my IEP officer like she's carrying the plague.

I find I often don't recognise people I know unless I am in contact with them a lot unless I make very specific intent study of them so I can remember.I also sometimes have trouble realising that a reflection is me. On the other hand i have been known to mistake people of similar build and haircut to each other for each other or think a stranger is someone I know because they have a similar outline to someone I know.

Happens to me all the time. If I haven't seen an acquaintance in a while... or see them in an unfamiliar setting... I'll get a nagging feeling I know them but I can't place who they are.

I am so bad, I would not recognize my husband in a store if I thought he was a 100 miles away at work!

Try this website : www.faceblind.org

They have some tests for faceblindness.