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Do you have face blindness?
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19 Jul 2017, 7:12 pm

Wilson was a mess of contradictions. He was a racist, yet he was an idealist.

Another thing: If I see a person in a hat, then see the same person without a hat, I won't recognize he/her right away. If the person speaks, though, then I recognize him/her.



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05 Oct 2020, 3:15 pm

JonnaJarvela wrote:
If I'm not exposed enough i cannot remember someone's face. And my mind switches the image with someone else's face. For example: I had an english teacher who wore her hair like Debra from dexter and even tho i've been to her classes for a long time when i try to remember her all i can see is Debra
Another example: We called the police and the officer that came to our house had hair like alec baldwin. We spent an hour together and a second after he was gone i couldn't remember his face when i tried to remember all i could see was alec baldwin in police uniform.
i thought two actors were the same person for quite a long time because they had same hair styles.
I'm not always bad at remembering faces. But my mind creates its own image of a person instead of remembering them if i've haven't seen them enough. So I'm not even sure if I remember people from my past correctly or not.


Yes. It is faceblindness. At times I have looked in the mirror and been rather surprized as I have forgotton what I look like!


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07 Oct 2020, 9:48 am

Face blindness has been the reason for some of my most embarrassing social blunders.



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07 Oct 2020, 12:21 pm

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Face blindness has been the reason for some of my most embarrassing social blunders.


Yours as well? Haha. I have lost people due to it.

Also, about 10 months ago an online friend happened to be coming down to my area of the country and she had a day spare, so we had arranged that I would come down to where she was staying and pick her up so I could drive her around and show her the area.
Now I drove to the car park near the beach. There was the lady waiting for me, so I went up to her and started talking. To make sure it was her I asked "Are you waiting for someone?" She said "Yes". So I walked with her towards my car and I opened my car expecting for her to get in but she seemed puzzled. I then looked up to see the lady I that was supposed to come with me walk towards me and I had some explaining to do! Turns out the other lady was waiting for her husband and we had been talking on crossed purposes or something like that.


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07 Oct 2020, 10:50 pm

I understand this but for me, I wonder if it's actually face blindness or I am not looking at the person enough when I'm talking to them.

I once lost my mum in a grocery shop and had to try and remember what she was wearing before I could find her. I've also seen my optometrist in a shop and didn't recognise her until my partner said hello to her. This could just be not recognising her out of context, I don't know.

Sometimes I have trouble with tv shows or movies where two characters look similar. Mixing them up leads to not understanding the show properly.

My mum has similar problems to me in that she doesn't recognise my dad's golf friends should they meet somewhere not on the golf course. But I don't blame her because they're his friends, not hers. But she asks my dad who they were afterwards and he's incredulous that she doesn't know.



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07 Oct 2020, 11:18 pm

i have unintentionally hurt people's feelings by not remembering their name or their identity. :( it's why i'm a hermit.



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08 Oct 2020, 8:20 am

renaeden wrote:
I understand this but for me, I wonder if it's actually face blindness or I am not looking at the person enough when I'm talking to them.

I once lost my mum in a grocery shop and had to try and remember what she was wearing before I could find her. I've also seen my optometrist in a shop and didn't recognise her until my partner said hello to her. This could just be not recognising her out of context, I don't know.

Sometimes I have trouble with tv shows or movies where two characters look similar. Mixing them up leads to not understanding the show properly.

My mum has similar problems to me in that she doesn't recognise my dad's golf friends should they meet somewhere not on the golf course. But I don't blame her because they're his friends, not hers. But she asks my dad who they were afterwards and he's incredulous that she doesn't know.

Yes. That's faceblindness. Where one is ok where one expects the other pwople to be but meet them somewhere else and it is a different issue.
Prosopragnosia is the correct term.


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08 Oct 2020, 8:52 am

In my case...

It's attention/recall and memory issue than visual processing.

Can't recall anyone well I've met for months or few years. Basically I start failing to remember people I've met since highschool.

Yet I recall everyone I've known before highschool.
I can still recognize them all, with all their changes; haircuts, stances, body type or conditions, age and all.


So some thought I may be face blind, only because I act like it.


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08 Oct 2020, 9:56 am

Edna3362 wrote:
In my case...

It's attention/recall and memory issue than visual processing.

Can't recall anyone well I've met for months or few years. Basically I start failing to remember people I've met since highschool.

Yet I recall everyone I've known before highschool.
I can still recognize them all, with all their changes; haircuts, stances, body type or conditions, age and all.


So some thought I may be face blind, only because I act like it.


I have not really thought about it from the angles you suggest, and my initial thoughts are that it could be a bit of both as I tend to avoid direct eye contact. I do do it to be polite, but when talking I tend to need to look to one side or the other when I am concentrating...
But yes, it is also a memory issue. The strange thing is, in primary school which was up to the age of 11, I can remember most of the children in my class, but only one or two of the others, but from the age of 11 onwards I can't remember a lot. Secondary school for me was rather more distressing. But if you ask me what these people from primary school look like now, I can only picture two... Maybe three or four at the most as the others I have completely lost.
I find names also as well as faces can go.

I think to answer your question though, it is a bit of both, but it is difficult to work it out.


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