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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'm very bad with faces in other contexts. This is a real handicap for a lecturer. I couldn't recognise tutees out of context, and had many embarrassing moments being totally unable to recognise a student who felt hurt by this. Often they were asking for something, and I had to ask who they were.

    I recall many difficult episodes of total recognition failure

    I frequently don't recognise people in the street, even though i know them well in another context.

    I've had to learn to bluff it out. I'm forever meeting people and chatting to them, even going to sit down for a coffee in the hope of resolving the problem. I've just had to hope my responses to the conversatiion made sense.

    Being spottable/recognisable myself, I guess it is much easier for the other party to identify me.

    As to films, similar looking characters cause me great problems following the plot.

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  • I'm very bad with faces in other contexts. This is a real handicap for a lecturer. I couldn't recognise tutees out of context, and had many embarrassing moments being totally unable to recognise a student who felt hurt by this. Often they were asking for something, and I had to ask who they were.

    I recall many difficult episodes of total recognition failure

    I frequently don't recognise people in the street, even though i know them well in another context.

    I've had to learn to bluff it out. I'm forever meeting people and chatting to them, even going to sit down for a coffee in the hope of resolving the problem. I've just had to hope my responses to the conversatiion made sense.

    Being spottable/recognisable myself, I guess it is much easier for the other party to identify me.

    As to films, similar looking characters cause me great problems following the plot.

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