Pictures of faces

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Does anyone else get disturbed by pictures of faces? I especially dislike the ones where the subject was looking into the camera and it looks like they're staring at you. I'm constantly turning magazines, etc. face-down so I don't have to look at a face.

I used to be really disturbed by this. Now I'm all right with it, I even have some posters where they seem to be looking at the camera. But I used to not be able to see them at all. I'd cover faces with coffee cups and stuff.

I can’t remember faces. I even forget what my wife or mother looks like. I try to remember people by the way they move. Anyone else have this?

Do I have this issue ? No.
However, it's found (in some percentage of persons)-with or without AS.
It's called prosopagnosia, aka "faceblindness", in which one can't recognize familiar folks (even one's closest family/friends). There was article in "Wired" magazine a few months back about it, and likely more info. if you do a search for prosopagnosia.

Well, yes & no.
Images that annoy me I fold over magazine pages upon. Generic photos of "so-called normal, nondescript humans"-such as one finds in picture frames, strike me as creepy.
Depictions of people tend to (not always) bother me, so I cover them with a different picture that I do like. For instance, I buy engagement calendars (appointment books), cheapest ones I can find-and they might have cover design featuring some random person. So I paste over that with contact paper, using an image that does appeal to my aesthetic taste, visual sense.

I draw over faces all the time.. My "favourite" is giving them sunglasses.

I don't find pictures of the human face ( or pictures of other animals faces ) disturbing, but I often become tired of them as I spend ages studying them as an essential part of my development in learning to read facial 'expression'.



I don't have serious problems with what you describe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia.

However, I do have almost no ability to recognise facial 'expression' at all ( at the moment- I hope my training will change this.).


Magliabechi.

Last edited by Magliabechi on 22 Aug 2008, 2:40 am, edited 1 time in total.

[quote]It's called prosopagnosia, aka "faceblindness", in which one can't recognize familiar folks (even one's closest family/friends). There was article in "Wired" magazine a few months back about it, and likely more info. if you do a search for prosopagnosia.

Thank you.

You're welcome-wasn't sure whether or not you'd heard of it before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/blind.html