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Faces

Marjorie195

I had a reply from Aoch re faces, and just tought I would answer as a new post.

I have difficulty with faces. One of my kids had a friend whose mother, I was totally unable to recognise. To make matters worse, my husband played squash against her. I never recognise her in the street, and I have heard that she thinks me incredably rude. Some faces are easier to remember than others. This problem can affect me when watching tv. Sometimes, I have difficulty disdinguishing characters in a program. I have to ask other people which person is on screen at the moment. I just give up on programs like that, too much like hard work.

I have read that some asd people have prognoposia (something like that). I think I may have a mild problem with that. I am realising that these things are more subtle than the books suggest.

I wonder if this affects our ability to read faces. Some are perhaps more readable than others. 

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  • I have problems with war films or gangster films, where they are all dressed the same. Remember getting half way through one very confusing film before I realised the one main character was actually two people! 

    Too many embarrassing incidents to list where I have not recognised people, usually work colleagues in the street, eg one I had been working with a week earlier in a temp job, and another I worked with for a year and didnt recognise six months later. Recently it was a colleague I bumped into with her family and mistook her for a neighbour - they all looked totally baffled. Had she phoned me I would have recognised her voice immediately though. 

    I'm not sure if this is necessarily linked to the ability to read emotions though, as I seem to do OK on those tests. And am usually painfully aware if I am p- ing someone off!

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  • I have problems with war films or gangster films, where they are all dressed the same. Remember getting half way through one very confusing film before I realised the one main character was actually two people! 

    Too many embarrassing incidents to list where I have not recognised people, usually work colleagues in the street, eg one I had been working with a week earlier in a temp job, and another I worked with for a year and didnt recognise six months later. Recently it was a colleague I bumped into with her family and mistook her for a neighbour - they all looked totally baffled. Had she phoned me I would have recognised her voice immediately though. 

    I'm not sure if this is necessarily linked to the ability to read emotions though, as I seem to do OK on those tests. And am usually painfully aware if I am p- ing someone off!

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