Trouble finding people (related to face blindedness or...??)

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I don't know if this is an ASD thing or not but when I'm somewhere with a reasonable number of people: restaurant, supermarket, church meeting etc and am looking for a particular person I have a lot of difficulty. This happens even if I've just been with them and am looking to find them again. For instance when I used to go shopping with my mother I would have to go get a second trolley when she went to the checkout and if I didn't take specific notice of what she was wearing, or what the checkout chick looked like or count the number of checkouts between my mother and the trolleys I would have awful trouble trying to pick her out and get back to the right place.

Has anyone else experienced something similar (if so share) and do you think this would be related to sensory overload or face blindedness or what???

Well if it was face-blindness, you wouldn't be able to try and remember what the checkout person looked like. I have face-blindness, and in situations like that, I look for something numerical, like the number of the checkout.

In a store there are lots of people moving around, bright lights, noises and conversations. It would be harder for someone that can not block all this out normally to find someone, I imagine. I recognize people by their apparel and their hair. When I am trying to find someone I tell myself not to panic, and I take my time.

Part can be due to face-blindness too. But, if you were finding someone and they were standing the other way, you wouldn't really be /looking/ for their face in the first place. I think it's more sensory and poor sense of direction (I think that's supposedly more NVLD though).