Face blindness

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Im wondering about face blindness for those who know they have it and what it means in understanding it for dummies version. What i'm wondering is if someone with face blindness is unable to recognize a famous celebrity they like? Or like if someone with face blindness sees a picture of Abraham Lincoln, wouldn't recognize it?

I have general face blindness. I mean I could sit across the table from someone I met for the first time at dinner, and then have no idea who they are if they came up to me a day or two later and said hello. But I can recognize actors and musicians I like. There was a kid I went to school with for years I ran into at a mall and I didn't know who he was. Part of that is his looks had changed some from growing.

Well it really depends on the level of faceblindness I think. Also, if there are parts of the person that you can recognised apart from the face (so for Lincoln a the beard and suit).

My boyfriend cannot half-recognise some celebrities, but he mixes up celebrities that look different in the face, but have the same hair colour, or similar dress style.

But I think it depends on the person.

If one is face kind then one would not a picture of Lincoln's face.

Fortunately most pictures include hair, and pictures of Lincoln have old fashioned clothes and a top hat that allow one to recognize him.

Pictures of celebrities will have their clothing and distinctive hairstyles.

The context is important for most people in identifying who someone is, more so if you don't recognize faces as you are more dependent on other clues like context, voice etc to know who people are.

I don?t know if I have face blindness but I have exhibited some traits of it. For celebrities I like I can recognize them. Generally if you like a celebrity you pay attention to them it?s not like meeting someone you have a picture you can analyse the picture and memorize it. Also celebrities always have some feature that stays the same about them. Like Justin Bieber comes to mind I forget how much he spent but it was a lot of money on haircuts practically everyday to maintain his look. The majority of celebrities are like that they have a very specific style and they maintain it they don?t go through the average changes people do. It would not be profitable they have a style a sort of brand and they have to maintain it to make themselves marketable. Because celebrities market the person when the person constantly changes you?re pretty much screwing yourself. The product must remain the same or within a certain set limit otherwise people will never buy it.

Now normal people. My brother came over one day and rang the doorbell. I answered and we talked for a few minutes and then he finally mentioned something about parents and I realized oh crap that?s right he?s my brother I?d been trying to figure out who the hell he was throughout the entire conversation. To me he?s red jacket because that?s what he usually wears. My other brother is jean jacket because that?s what he usually wears. My dad is scruffy because he doesn?t shave everyday. And my mom I recognize by voice for some reason. So long as these features don?t change I can easily recognize them like a celebrity but when they do change it takes me a while. The day I didn?t recognize my brother he did not have his red coat on. Nor was I expecting him so I wasn?t mentally prepared to recognize him. I also rely on location to recognize people because I expect them to be at a certain location. You must also remember that there are different severities to face blindness.

I don't know if I am literally face blind, but I'm not entirely sure what it means to be face blind either. Does it mean the inability to read faces is consistent in all circumstances? I feel like it is inconsistent for me. I can recognize celebrities very easily, if I am familiar with who they are. But I miss recognizing who people are in my daily life if I see them outside of the usual context, and I have occasionally missed recognizing a family member. In my job I introduce myself to people I've already met because I don't remember meeting them.

I'm sure I miss a lot of facial expressions, but sometimes I feel like I am hyper-aware of very subtle things in a person's face, like a tiny muscle twitch.

Overall I just don't have a good memory for who people are. I think it's more of a memory problem than a face blindness problem, but it essentially amounts to the same thing, I just don't recognize people when I probably should.

My face blindness is always contextual. If I see someone out of the context I normally see them in then I draw a blank. Although, sometimes I draw a blank with people I DO see in context but more rarely.

I'm not too sure if I have face blindness, I do have trouble recognising people if they're out of context.

Also for me, most people look the same so I have difficulty differentiating, I have to look for distinguishing features.

It's just normal for me anyway, it doesn't pose as too much of a problem.

I have partial faceblindness and can only remember some faces while using ALOT of energy. I seem to remember peoples "spirits" or personalities/character/souls or however you want to put it. Like someone asks me to describe my parents and i will describe their age and biography and how they love me. To ask me to describe a woman i care for it might be "kind nice" or similar emotional words but when pressured for physical traits i cannot do it and would wind up creating Picasso or a pure black face.

Now irony is i can actually differentiate between different asian groups such as japanese chinese and korean pretty accurately. Which is odd since i am white LOL.

I have very bad visual memory, so I do not remember how anything looked or what color it had, and if I meet people just once, I have no idea what they looked like.

On the other hand, I can recognise lots of actors from television, but those have I seen lots of times in nonstressed situations, though I would be utterly unable to make an image of them.

i have major trouble remembering faces.. without a mirror i can't even describe or draw my own face
i always have to go for other stuff like skin color, hair color and what they're wearing.

I also have trouble recognizing my own face. I know it's me if I look in a mirror of course though. Feel weird about not recognizing myself! Glad I'm not alone.