Faces

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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  • Yup, faces get me confused too.  I try to categorise folk by noting they have long brown hair or wear glasses, but then they go and change their hairstyle!

    I'm not even great with voices and accents.  We have a heavily accented guy at work but I just didn't notice until others pointed it out. 

    I didn't know the difficulty had a name! A kind of dyslexia of humans!

    What I wonder about is - how much have I missed out on and not noticed and don't even know I've missed.  There have been difficult people in my life and some of them have been really random in their responses to me over time, but of course I now know THEY were probably the normal ones and it was in response to something I did or said, but I'm blowed if I know what.

    I just have to shrug my shoulders and admit that there goes another non-relationship.  'Cos I don't even know how to put it right.

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  • Yup, faces get me confused too.  I try to categorise folk by noting they have long brown hair or wear glasses, but then they go and change their hairstyle!

    I'm not even great with voices and accents.  We have a heavily accented guy at work but I just didn't notice until others pointed it out. 

    I didn't know the difficulty had a name! A kind of dyslexia of humans!

    What I wonder about is - how much have I missed out on and not noticed and don't even know I've missed.  There have been difficult people in my life and some of them have been really random in their responses to me over time, but of course I now know THEY were probably the normal ones and it was in response to something I did or said, but I'm blowed if I know what.

    I just have to shrug my shoulders and admit that there goes another non-relationship.  'Cos I don't even know how to put it right.

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