Face blindness

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Dose anyone else suffer from Prosopagnosia? LINK---> Prosopagnosia <---LINK
And did I ask this question already?? I'm having a really bad de ja vue moment.

Oh my God, I am absolutely horrible at remembering faces! Even if I've known the person for years (even my best friend), I still won't recognize their face! I'm equally horrible at names, too. So when bullies harrass me, I can't tell on them because I don't know their names and I can't recognize them. Then I get hounded about it.

Here is a good example of Face Blindness plays with my head:
I was in a long process of buying a car. Because I have a financial guardian through the VA Hospital system it took about 2-3 weeks. During that time I spoke almost daily with a man named Jerry. Every time I saw him, he was sitting behind his desk. One day I walked in and said hello like I usually did. I saw that Jerry wasn't sitting at his desk so I turned to the closest warn body and said "When is Jerry going to be in?" Only when he began to speak and I recognized his voice did I see that he WAS Jerry. Fortunately, I had the fore sight, at that point to tell people in advance about my inability to recognize faces.

In a word, yes. I am very bad with remembering faces.

A strange girl knocked on my apartment door one day and asked if she could come in. After about 30 seconds of me giving evasive and noncommittal answers while trying to figure out what was going on, I was able to determine from her voice and the content of what she was saying that she was my sister, who had changed her hairstyle in the couple of months since I had last seen her. Fortunately she never figured out that I hadn't recognized her. She thought I was just acting really awkward and nervous.

I've had false positives, too. I was once in a restaurant and became about 90% sure that the guy at the table next to me was a longtime friend. Since he apparently hadn't seen me yet, I decided to pretend I hadn't seen him until he acknowledged me somehow. Over the course of the meal I figured out that he was a complete stranger.

I don't recognize people until I've been around them for a week or two.

Totally bad at it. Bad with remembering names, as well.

I can easily remember faces and names.

Tim

I'm pretty awful at remembering faces, but didn't know there was an actual term for it, or whether or not I'd actually fall into it.

I'm fine with people I know well, but I'll struggle with anyone outside of that if I don't see them regularly. I've stared baffled at many people when they have spoken to me, usually bluffing myself through enough conversation to work out exactly who it is.

I'm really good at recongizing faces. I'm always pointing to someone on the street who looks like someone else I know, or like a celebrity.

Can't remember names easily, though.

Yes. That's my problem! I can't recognize people's faces until I have been around them for more than a week. I have problems recognizing my classmates.

Last year, we had on school an electronic congress, and I had to pay for it before the day when congress began. I paid a part of the money to a boyon the stand, and he told me I would receive my ticket for the congress when I paid the rest, I forgot ask for his name.

Two weeks passed, and I wanted to pay the money, but there was a girl on the stand and she told me I had to pay the money to the same guy. When she asked me "What is his name?" and "How do he look like?", I was confused because I couldn't remember his face, I only remembered his hairstyle and his sunglasses. When the boy appeared, I didn't recognize him because his hairstyle was different nad he wasn't wearing sunglasses, but he recognized me and he told me he had been searching for me. I paid the money and got my ticket.

I'm faceblind. All faces look the same to me. I try to remember by distinctive features like red hair, or even weird shoes. A voice is good, I can match people to their voices.

I remember seeing my wife one time, when her hair looked much lighter from the sun, and thinking what a pretty girl that is - it took me a while to realize that it was she. She was flattered, but I'm not sure that all people would be.

Yes.

I can tell people apart by hair color, by voice, by body shape, and by any unusual feature.
I can tell the difference between races only if the skin color is deep brown or white skin/blonde hair, or if the distinctive Asian eye shape is present; otherwise I don't know whether you're a dark-haired European or a Mexican.
I've looked at pictures on a face-blindness test, among them Elvis and George W. Bush, with everything but the face cropped out, and I was unable to identify all but 20% of the famous people I knew well.
I can't recognize most co-workers or fellow classmates, it took me two weeks to tell apart my boss and my immediate superior, and I didn't realize there were four secretaries who looked alike (not just one) until four months into my part time job cleaning a church.
I can thankfully tell my family members apart, though I can't recognize family that isn't close to me--for example, cousins I haven't seen in five years or so.
Former roommates and hall mates will stop to talk to me, and I have no idea who they are.
The worst to recognize are the "pretty" people--those whose faces are regular--especially if they are classically pretty, not exotic-looking.
Meeting people out of place is also problematic; people I usually recognize are hard to recognize in situations such as for example, meeting a co-worker at the grocery store.

I'm bad with this also. 8-(

Steve

I am notoriously and horribly bad at this...I won't even go into it.