Why Aspies don't recognize faces

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Understimulation. Whenever I don't recognize a face it's because I'm too bored (not just bored; that trivializes it-- seriously starved of stimulation) to pay attention to anything as understimulating as human faces I need light, I need motion. I have some in my head, so I daydream instead of looking at the faces properly.


How about you?

Ana54, stop spamming the same thread under different titles. You have created four threads with different titles, but the same content.

You're right; whenever I want to rememeber a face I do.

I have a hard time with actor and actresses on TV. Many times I've seen them somewhere but can't place on finger on where or which movie. Happens a lot.

I'm actually good at recognizing people! Does that mean I can't be an aspie? Yet unlike NTs (??) I don't focus on the face alone. I see people as silhouettes that move in a unique way. Commonly, when you live with several people, you can identify them by the way their steps sound as they ascend or descend a staircase. Well, I can identify most people I know in that kind of way. I'm also good at recognizing faces by themselves. I think this is yet another effect of studying the people around me in order to become a better fiction writer. I'm not sure if it's a natural ability.

I can read faces in terms of emotions but have a big problem with memory(i.e. connecting faces with names). It's just very hard for me to connect names with faces.

I have no problem with faces. I hardly ever forget a face. But don't expect me to remember the name that goes with it.

I can do faces, though I don't always know where I remember them from. They'll look familiar, and it might only be the accent or the way they move or something they mention that makes me remember where they're from. But that doesn't mean I'll ever remember their names. I cannot for the life of me remember names. I've tried every memory trick in the book, but I'm useless until I've come across them 8 times. If someone comes into my office and talks to me my workmate IMs me their name so I know who I'm talking to now, she knows how useless I am!! I actually forgot my senior manager's name once... (The guy who signs my payslips ).

Im well alrite wid faces its just names im not good wid.

Being NLD, I'm too busy processing visual information to remember a face after one or only a few exposures to that face. I tend not to look at the faces or look at them very quickly. What I do get, I tend to forget, and even if I try to memorize the face....a lot of faces look surprisingly similar to me.

I can even have trouble recognizing people that I have known for a while if I don't see them for a few months.

Hearing their voice always helps a lot in placing them......again, it's an auditory cue instead of a visual one and it's more likely to stick with me.

I'm also bad with names.

It's like I relate to the spirit of the person rather than their physical appearance or what they are called.