an ASD test where one tries to read eyes.

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I took a similar test and was completely unable to determine emotions from only the eyes.

I've noticed also that, having avoided eye contact for most of my life, I recognize people better and see more similarities in them from the nose down.
As an example, I tell my wife that someone looks like a celebrity. She can't see it unless I cover their eyes and all she has to go on is the rest of the face. We've done this so much that she is starting to be able to see it as well. For some reason I've been unable to train myself to recognize people the "normal" way.

I took an online quiz like that.....and I really don't have an issue identifying the differnt emotions, but the thing that test does not test is can one pick up on those while focused on trying to talk to someone? That is the issue I run into I can tell what facial expression someone has or what emotion their eyes indicate in a photograph but IRL when talking to someone I cannot focus on all that stuff.

There's someone famous that reminds me of my cousins because of the way she looks when she smiles. I think it's mostly the way her mouth looks, though her eyes may be some kind of factor. I now think of them every time she does that in a video. My mother thought of that kind of smile as being a family grin, but this woman is not related to us, as far as I know. It's kind of strange to get that sense of familiarity with someone who's not in my family. Not bad, just strange.

I guess sometimes I have a vague initial bad or good feeling about the expression of the eyes in the pictures, and after looking at the list I suddenly realize that it is actually the opposite what I thought. I'm not sure, though, when an expression is considered positive or negative.

One of the online tests shows the right answer after each example (it can be stressing and distracting), so I know that I'm worst at pictures that involve flirting. Somehow I tend to perceive them negative rather than positive.