dealing with faceblindness

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anyone have any tips?
on the job I work on theres about 150 people on the site and 60 in my company. I have to keep track of their names, my dad is real popular there so everyone knows me by extension. I am always sent to get stuff to people and remembering who is who is pretty hard. currently I have remembered the stickers on their hardhats and the clothes they typically wear.

honestly, i'd tell people that i meet that I'm bad with names, then spend months looking at them blankly. its not that i dont remember their names, i just cant associate it to a face. so they remind me.

most people seem pretty happy to oblige me and remind me of their name all the time. otherwise i refer to people by approximation "the guy with no hair who works down on the boilers" or something.

I was very open about my face blindness in my last job, and people were fine with it. It was a huge company - over 800 people in the building so most people didn't know everyone.

Previously I worked in a company of around 100, and what worked for me there was drawing a map of the building with the locations of all the desks, and writing the persons name in the the appropriate spot for where they usually sat or worked.

in the end, I didn't need to refer to it that often, as the process of building up the map help me remember people "geographically" rather than just by face.

edit: if there were a few people who worked in the same room but didn't sit at desk, I'd supplement the names with little stylised smiley type pictures. A smiley with glasses, or curly hair etc, to remind me what people looked like.

I can never recognize people outside of the situation from which I know them. Like if I met a person at a job and I saw them outside of said job, I would have no idea who they are. Happens all the time. I always chalk it up to "Oh I didn't recognize you with that hat/haircut/etc." People are usually forgiving.

Would this relate to forgetting what a person looks like too? I cannot ever remember what peoples faces look like, unless I'm looking at them. If I try to remember what my mum looks like, I can't. I could describe her features because I 'know' what she looks like, but I can't actually remember her whole face.

Same goes for anyone I try to remember, close friends, family, everything.

I don't have faceblindness as such. I just don't look at people when walking along in the street, and I also walk fast, which means I scuttle past people who I know. Some people take it personally and just think I am trying to avoid having to talk to them, so I find myself having to explain to them that I don't look at people so that's why I will walk past you, nothing to be offended by. I even walk straight past my own mum. I really ought to learn how to make eye contact with everyone I pass in the street, without feeling anxious of doing it.

I'm very bad at matching names to faces. This has caused some embarrassing moments at work and back in school. There are about 20 people in my department at work and I'm only sure of 10 people's names, even though I see them every day and I've been working there for quite a while.

For some reason, my brain just can't hold on to people's names. There have been several times where I just can't think of someone's name even though I knew it and had no trouble recalling it before.

I also sometimes have trouble recognizing faces if I see them out of context from where I usually see them. Last Halloween, I saw someone that I know who was in costume, and even though her face was fully visible, I didn't recognize her until about 5 minutes later when someone said her name. I'm kinda glad in that instance that I tend to keep to myself and not greet new people. That would have been embarrassing!