People looking like other people?

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Errr, oh yeah

I suppose mixing up left and right is perfectly normal though, lots of people do it : )

They do
I always just think which hand I'd go to pick up a pen, so if I could right with my left hand as well I'd be stuck lol
And also if you put your hands out with your palms facing away from you, your fingers together but your thumbs out, your left hand makes an L shape (incase you ever forget )

I can`t even recognise my own family from a crowd of similar looking people eg same hair.
I think the skills to recognise faces is learnt in the first year of life and somehow we never do after which it doesn`t matter how much you stare at a face you never get the fine detail for good recognition.
I rely on associating people to places coupled with big details like hair, size, glasses etc (people at work are cutting their hair now it is spring so it is really confusing...)

Oh, yes, even when I was a kid, I used to say, people look all the same, esp. females

i always thought i looked like this guy

Try going to Arizona State University. Everybody DOES look the same because it is 60,000 of the same person.

I didn't know cloning advanced this far , wow

Sad, but rather true! My buddy is moving from here in Vegas to Phoenix next week, and he will fit in with that crowd.

My life is not complete unless i'm going on about people that look like others.. or a cross between others. LOL.

I noticed that Jamie McLachlin, the actor who plays Roger Bannister in the movie Four Minutes, looks quite a lot like Roger. The actors who played his friends Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway (Drew Carnwath and Grahame Wood) look exactly like the real runners. You probably have to have AS to know what they really look like.

Roger Bannister said he once met a runner on a tour of the United States who looked a lot like him in appearance, build and height. He thought it was an eerie experience.

People have said I look like Bill Nye...

I sometimes pick out facial expressions and features in one person and then relate it to a different person and once I tell people they can see it too. I think I'd be great as a casting director for this reason.

I have absolutely no face blindness whatsoever, but I believe part of my asperger's is being able to recognize actor's faces. I can see an actor in a commercial, a cameo role, or even as an extra and recognize them for the rest of my life no matter where they are. I can even identify child actors as adults even if I saw them in just one movie, but that's more the facial expressions that I'm picking up on. I actually recognized a young female actress in a role playing a boy and everyone thought it was a boy, but I was like No! It is absolutely this twelve year old girl that I saw in this other movie and when I returned home from the theater i was right, she was playing a boy! And this is an extremely little known actress.

So, I don't know if this is related or not, but that's my deal.

When I was in High School there was this History teache I had, whom looked 110% identical to Tina Turner and often I would make a notion about it which, often caused a negative reaction still, it's hard not to notice such things for, there were times when various people that I came across in School for reasons that did not make since often stated, I resembled the scientist from Back To The Future cause, of my appearance in general as well, there has been other individuals who've I've been attributed to looking like in regards to characters in tv shows or movies yet, to me this is something I find okay and make nothing of it.

ProfessorX

I thought I say Martin Scorsese at the grocery store, But it turned out to be an old Italian Guy with glasses!

I definitely have that problem, especially with men. I must drive my poor family nuts when we try to watch a film. I have to ask constantly who is who, what's going on, where they are and what all the subtle social bits that I missed actually mean. They're patient with me though. =]

I was wondering, since someone else here posted that they find it harder to recognise women, whether we recognise people within our own sex/race more easily than others, or whether we just happen to randomly find certain shapes/facial structures harder to distinguish than others.

It isn't so much that it will occur to me that so-and-so looks like Joe Bloggs, it’s more that I usually end up thinking that so-and-so is the same person as Joe Bloggs. It can become very confusing. I tend to recognise hair/eyelashes/certain features, rather than a whole face.

Most of my friends are part of the "alternative" scene, which really helps. They tend to have easily recognizable hair styles/colours, and unique facial jewelry, etc. I find that people without some sort of body modification/decoration [even if it’s just makeup] have nothing that I can latch onto, and they blur into a crowd of people that all look exactly the same to me.

I also find that if I can “latch onto” a particular facial feature or hairstyle, over time I can also gradually learn to recognize that person’s face, so that I’d recognize them even if they changed their hair. Whereas, if I never had something to immediately “latch onto” to begin with, I have no starting point and I never learn to properly recognize them.

Men or women, I don't discriminate. I said hello to someone I've met before, and treated her like a complete stranger. I do this to men too. I asked one chap if he was feeling better, and I was confusing him with someone else. Very embarrassing. People think I'm daft, and it's bloody difficult to come up with an excuse on the spot. I used to lie about this question on psychological tests because I thought it was indicative of schizophrenia. Wot's really ODD is when someone comes up to me, and starts talkin' away thinking I'm someone else. You'd think me scratchy voice would be a dead give-away...