Faces and Names

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Do you guys ever associate somebody with a name and then call them that when you don't pay attention?

i associate my opbjects by names but not ppl , the only time i even show interest in ppl is with their hands to shake or bite their hands, or if they squat down i climb on them lol, other then that their basically jus a wall lol that sounds so bad, but i have more interest in my objects.

I remember faces better than I remember names.

I don't remember faces or names well and cannot place people out of context.

I remember people by details about them. Like . . . "the woman who likes cats and works for the post office". And I will confirm their identity out loud in this manner.

Then they seem to mind less when I confess to not remembering their name or face. They think I care because I remembered trivial facts about them, when in fact these facts are the only way for me to organize them in my head.

Terrible with names and faces. I try to avoid calling by name.

Do a lot of nicknaming, rarely unintentionally use to owner's face.

interesting, that reminds me of shrub [last POTUS]- NOT that i am comparing you with him! but gwb usually used nicknames with his staff- for example, he called karl rove "turd blossum" [a texas flower]. nicknames for nearly all staff high and low. i wonder bush had any aspie traits?

I am relatively good with faces.
I do not easily forget a face.
Names I forget much more often.

I have problems with this. I need much time to learn who-is-who - counting in months, not days. If I meet sb once, I won't remember face, I won't recognize on the street.
I live in Students House, but I don't recognize people living on the same floor. What a shame.
Beginning of the school: Hey, people, are you my classmates? Sometimes I mistake exercise groups and I go with another

People think they're sooo unique, but they are all the same.

Names are easier for me, but connecting name + face is horrible.

I tell people that's because I have sight problems, I wear glasses blablabla... They usually believe

It takes me a really long time to remember names. It's almost embarrassing.

I have real trouble telling whether I have seen somebody before (and if so, where).

Often people come up to me and say "hi" and I have to tell them "I'm sorry, I don't know who you are". Sometimes I recognise them a bit, and sometimes I do not recognise them at all but they recognise me!

I get extremely embarrassed about this. Often, I say "I must have been drunk when I met you!" Because I am semi-alcoholic, this is usually plausible. But it is not really the truth (not all the time, anyway!). I know that really I don't need to be drunk for this to happen. Firstly, I don't look at people's faces as closely as others do. Secondly, my eyes dart around so I only get a general impression of the face. Thirdly, when I meet a new person and talk to them my anxiety level goes sky-high and blocks out any chance I would have of concentrating or remembering anything.

Perhaps that is one reason to get a diagnosis. When it happens, I can say: "I'm sorry that I don't remember you, but don't take it personally. I have Asperger Syndrome and it makes it difficult for me to remember faces." That would be nice.