Problem remembering faces?

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I actually don't know if I have asperger's, but I thought I saw once that people with it have trouble remembering faces? Is this true?

I have trouble remembering faces the first time I meet someone. When I try to remember what they look like later, I picture the face of someone who looks similar. After I've seen them a lot I can remember though.

Does anything like that happen to anyone else?

This is my issue, REMEMBERING faces. I am not face blind. It's not like I can't tell the difference between people, that has to be INCREDIBLY rare. I really can't picture most people's faces in my mind unless I see them nearly every day, and I usually don't recognize people who recognize me if I've only met them once, possibly even 2 or 3 times.

On the other hand, I think I'm actually pretty good at remembering people who have distinctive features, everyone else just blends together for me.

I feel I have a good memory for faces and I can and have recognised people I have seen months, even years ago.

I have a much worse time remembering names than faces. I had a strange experience recently, however, where I was trying to remember the face of someone I'd met, and I couldn't remember what she looked like. It really bugged me, but then it sort of came back to me.

I hate to break the news, but that is face blindness (probably.... you may also just not notice because your eyes are averted). Aspies generally have a milder form of it (there are infinite degrees of severity). I will only recognize people that I've seen multiple times (as in about a hundred), and I cannot recall any complete face at all unless I'm looking at the face in real life or in a picture. Right now I have no idea what my mother or my sister looks like, and as long as I've lived with face blindness, that is still amazing to me.

I experience face blindness as well. I will meet people around where I live and then when run into them shopping, I don't have any clue who the Hell they are. People actually will get upset with me because I don't know them. This happens all the time when I go home to Indiana, it's so embarassing, seems like everyone knows me but I don't know who they are. It stresses me out far too much because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

I just recently had a problem with this. I went to the dentist, and he has about 3 hygienists working for him. They all look the same to me, so I get really mixed up. I don't like to look at faces that much whilst conversing. I blame my poor recognition on that..

Same here. Doesn't mean that's true of all aspies. I'm not sure it's a problem with my perception either - I'm starting to think a lot of people just copy a style they see on TV and everyone ends up looking the same.

I remember faces, better than I remember names. That's the issue that I've always dealt with.

Well CRAP, that's one more point for potential AS.

I can't picture my mother right now either, or any of my friends. I didn't recognize my cousin when we ran into each other once so I just didn't say anything to him. That was a big WTF moment when Thanksgiving rolled around.

LOL.

But I CAN recognize some people very well. I recognize all the cashiers at grocery store and I don't see them all the time.

My problem is not remembering which name goes to which face. Like I can remember faces and names, just not which goes with which.lolAlthough I think I am relatively good at recognizing people when they are related to my special interests. I can just about always recognize a picture of Marie Fyodorovna, Xenia Alexandrovna, Irina Alexandrovna, and Elena Vladimirovna. It never ceases to amaze me, how excited I get when I see a pic of any of my favorite peope in history. I'm like, 'Oh, look! It's Princess Irina/Grand Duchess Xenia/or whoever!! !'.

I'm a visual thinker rather than a linguistic thinker, so I tend to remember faces better

I don't remember faces and I don't remember names. When people call me they tell me their name which is useless because I can hear who they are. They ought to do that when I meet them in real life instead! That would be a much better help! LOL!

I can only recognize people I see a lot in a crowd or a strange place. Else I'm lost.

The strange thing is I can't really imagine how a person looks but if I have a photo of them I can remember how they look in the picture... Also I took a test for face blindness and I wasn't face blind at all, but when you were supposed to recognize the people once more they used the same photos! I'm sure I would have done awful if they had used the same people and different photos.

This is me! I think maybe I am confused by the way this term has been used somewhere. My bad, I need to research it better. I have never had a test for it.
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But I have a bad time of recognizing people and I cannot recall what they look like in my mind unless I have seen them regularly over a long period of time.
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When I was young, I don't remember having this problem. Infact, I would associate how X person's eye's looks like Z person's eye's and so on and so forth with their other facial features as well.
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Weird huh!?! I wonder if it's because I don't have or take the time to stare at their faces like I did as a child or I am paying more attention to what they say now as an adult
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I have lots of pictures of someone I have never met before IRL, from the time he was a baby through not too long ago I imagine.
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I also have some of his mother and brother and it finally dawn on me they were related to him.
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But yeah, looking at his pictures in the comfort of my home and away from other distractions, I know his face well and I would recognize him if I ever met him IRL.
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Taupey

I was pretty good recognizing people as a child. I don't know if it was because I was really better at it or because there was a smaller circle of people around me that I saw on a constant basis. But I have a feeling I was really better at it.

Oh man, this is a really annoying problem. Meeting people when they're wearing sunglasses is annoying. When people I pass look at me I don't know if they're just being friendly, if I forgot who they are, or if I met them when I was too... thirst-quenched... to remember. On my way to class I passed a girl who I think I may have kissed but GEEZ her face itself didn't look that familiar, but come to think of it she had a lot of similar features.

BAH I am always too afraid to be the first to say "HI" (this is kind of unrelated).

Also, when I don't remember a face, my BRAIN just picks the face of someone I know who looks similar. Weird/annoying.