Faces, anyone else have problems with faces?

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I can't remember what people's faces look like, even people close to me, ill recognise them straight away if i meet them but if you ask me what they look like i couldn't tell you, hell i can't describe what my own mother looks like (she's in bed at the moment, it is like 1am afterall). what is this? is anyone else having this problem? my theory is that its because i don't typically look at peoples faces that often, so my brain hasn't stored what they look like very well i guess.

Prosopagnosia is a common symptom of Asperger's. Mine isn't as bad as yours, but I have had people take advantage of me and say they're someome they're not or tell me someone else is someone they're not. People have also gotten offended because I didn't recognize them.

I need to think HARD to be able to remember someone's face. Trying to imagine my mother's face at the moment I can think of specific parts of her face, not all of it simultaneously. If I dream of someone, I see a blur or just some lines.

I can imagine my grandfather's face, though. But he has very different, comic appearence from everybody else. I can linguistically describe, but I'm unable to picture people's faces.

Forgetting people names also happen to me regularly. Even if I've talked to that person for a year. I don't know why.

I have difficulty with faces too. I am unable to recognize anyone but family and close friends.

I'm ok with it if I see them in the same context, but as soon as I see people out of context (like I see my coworker at the mall), I have trouble.

I use hair and voice as cues to help me recognize people. It doesn't work as well as faces, but I am EXTREMELY good with voices. I once recognized one of my teachers in a bookstore by his voice and laugh.

I'm worthless at faces. I've failed to recognize my own kids because they changed clothes and did their hair different.

I never forget a voice, though.

Me too. Not too long ago I failed to recognize my own granny at a railway station just because I never met her there before.
Often, even when I think I recognize someone but they're not in the context I usually see them in, I need to hear their voices to be sure I'm not mistaking someone else for them.

I see peoples faces as generic templates much like the meyers-briggs personality types. If you put two different people with the same face type together, unless I have something to go off of to differentiate the two, they'll look to me more or less like identical twins.

That also happens to me. Mainly in movies, parties, family gatherings.

I can rarely recognize faces. I usually will recognize people by one feature, whether it be hairstyle, glasses, attire, or things like piercings and tattoos.

This is also true to me. I can imagine my grandfather's face exactly because he has very comic features. Big glasses, Santa's beard, straight hair combed to the side and huge nose. He's cool.

I experience it like so - i know i know the persons face, but the time and place where i know it from and their names takes forever to be processed to words/language

didn't think it could be something to do with being an aspie, ill give an example just so people can sort of get what im like with this:

I see my mother in a car park waiting to pick me up, i immediatly know its her and come over and get in the car and we go home, all is fine.


what does my mother look like?

uhhhh.........she has greyish hair with a little light blonde in it?.........um............kinda thin...........and im lost, yet id be able to point her out in a crowd.


i really hope someone close to me doesn't go missing or im not a witness to a crime because well, we'd be screwed when they ask me what they look like

I have this problem with my own father, i can't recognise him when he comes to pick me up, i recognise him by his car really, but when i get there i know its him, but not at all from a distance.

I remember peoples appearances by everything except their face. If you get a haircut or change your clothes- i dont know you anymore

If you recognize them right away it might be that you cannot make a mental image of them. Can you make a lifelike mental image of other things, like your room, a ripe apple, a building?

Do you recognize people right away if you only have seen them a few times?

How Much Asperger's Is Really Face or Emotion Blindness by John Elder Robison