recognition impairment

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I don't have prosopagnosia but I do have a recognition impairment of some type. It happened today. I was in the grocery store and saw an elderly woman with white hair walking out the door. She glanced my way and seemed a little disconcerted. I recognized her face, I knew that I knew her and I knew she was someone I saw frequently but that's as far as I could get. After a while it came to me that she was a woman I see and speak to every Friday because she helps out at a church I clean. This woman kisses me on the cheek, gives me donuts and calls me 'honey'- I feel bad that I was just looking at her blankly. This happens frequently but never before with someone so familiar. Anyone else experience this?

Oh yeah. If people are out of context, I will likely have a very hard time recognizing them. And then when (if) I do, I always say something really stupid. it's like I don't have a clue how to relate to them even if I DO know them.

Yeah,

I frequently don't recognise people, especially if I haven't seen them for a little while or they've changed slightly, or I see them on unfamiliar territory.

I also really struggle to recognise famous people from photos or on TV by their faces.

Also, if I've only met someone once, I find it hard to remember their face despite the fact that they often remember me.

It's embarrassing!

yes. Mostly because once someone is out of sight... I quickly forget what their face looks like. I can't even reconstruct it in my head. I might remember general features, man, tall, brown hair. But I won't remember any other features. It ends up causing me stress when I have to meet someone again and the meeting hinges on me remembering what they look like. (Like picking someone up from the airport). Unless you are immediate family, I probably won't remember what you look like.

oddly enough, in my dreams no one has facial features. ever.

(I also lucid dream quite frequently, which makes the whole lack of facial features sort of weird).

what is really frusterating is not reccognizing your own family in a crowd. My husband just doesn't get it. I think anxiety plays a big roll in it too.

Well, I'm talking about something a little different. I do recognize the person, I just can't remember how I know them. This is not so strange unless, like my recent experience it was someone I see and speak to frequently.

I have that too, and I call it prosopagnosia too...

I found this test online. I got 85% correct, which is above average. The test didn't address what I experience but I thought I'd put the link up in case anyone wanted to try the test out.

[url=http://]http://www.faceblind.org/research/[/url]

sorry, it says page not valid. I'll try again.


flailed again

I think it's fairly common to recognize someone, but if it's in a different context not know who it is they actually are. For instance, if you see your dentist in the grocery store one day, you may recognize him as someone you know but it doesn't occur to you that he's your dentist because he's not wearing his dentist outfit and he's not in the dentist's office.

I don't think this is an AS trait.

I sometimes have the opposite problem, where I'm convinced I recognize someone as person X, but in reality they are someone else I've never met. I will point out the similarity of this person to another person, but she will say, "No, they don't look at all alike." I think it's because I zero in on particular details of a person's look, and if most or all of those details add up, it really looks like the same person. I guess my wife either sees different details or she sees more of them.

I have developmental prosopagnosia and not acquired prosopagnosia. It is the acquired form that is usually much more profound which is often due to a stroke or brain injury to the fusiform face area of the brain.

Here are my results
That are not good but, or almost as bad as it could get for a first test but I learn to recognize faces eventually which is why I have little trouble recognizing close friends and family, unlike suffers of the acquired form which can be so profound they cannot even reacognize their own reflection in the mirror.

Results:

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Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 36.
In other words, you got 50% correct.


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On our previous version of this test, the average person with normal face recognition was able to recognize about 80% of the faces. If you correctly identified less than 65% of the faces, this may indicate face recognition difficulties.

For more information about face blindness and other face recognition difficulties, please go to www.faceblind.org.

fiddlerpianist wrote:

You're probably right but I no longer assume someone else experiences things the same way I do. For instance I described it to an NT friend and he looked at me blankly and then said "No". The reason I commented on the one experience is it was someone I see and speak to every week.

Thanks for posting that link paulsinnerchild One day I'll remember how to do for good.

Paul, I volunteered for their research and I've filled 2 forms so far. Could you post a link to the test you're talking about? I can't find it in their website.

Recently I've gone back to school and no one looks the same to me. Of course, they are a bit older but you'd think I'd recognize them. I think someone I used to know is someone else entirely as well.

There is one linked below
http://www.faceblind.org/facetests/fgcf ... _intro.php