Prosopagnosia

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Any other aspie have no problem recognizing faces? It's easy for me. If I see how I can analyze even small details, I've never had trouble recognizing. Is it normal for people in the spectrum not to have that difficulty?

I don’t have trouble recognising faces, but I can’t picture them in my mind. Just know that I’ve seen them before when I see them. Frequently struggle with names though.

Not everyone on the spectrum has prosopagnosia.

However, if someone does that does not mean they're not analyzing small details. In general people are better at recognizing individual faces than at recognizing individual trees (not the position where it stands, but the tree) or individual fish or any other creature or object. There's a specific brain region responsible for face recognition but not general object recognition. Someone with prosopagnosia might not be better at face recognition than at object recognition or even worse. The brain region that is specific to face recognition is affected, not the one for object recognition. Unless you do have prosopagnosia and compensate for it with another brain region, your ability to recognize faces well and your attention to detail might be mostly unrelated. Likewise, someone can be good at face recognition but not pay much attention to detail in general.

It is not a particularly common trait of autism. Especially aspergers. I have partial face blindness. Like some people have partial color blindness I guess. My autism is somewhere between moderate and severe.

I have face blindness, probably intensified by the fact I don't make eye contact or look at people directly when I speak to them. It's so bad I can't tell my brother's adult stepsons apart although I've known them several years and they are a few years apart in age. They don't look alike but I'm clueless about who is whom because I don't look them in the eye.

I'm better with photos of strangers because I can notice small details.

This is the frustrating thing about autism. There really isn't a common issue everyone has. Even socializing! Some of us can mask well enough that it isn't obvious to the casual observer. My mom could have guests for 2 days maximum.

I am face blind (Prosopagnosia)

Many times I will be approached by someone and they will begin a conversation. I will talk with them as if I knew them. Then when they leave, I will turn to my wife and ask her "Who was that?"

I didn't realize, until I came to WP, that face blindness was a thing and then over the past couple years, realizing that I have it. If I don't see someone in context, I have no idea who they are. I cannot picture a face (or anything else for that matter) in my brain no matter how well I know someone. Even my husband who have looked at for more than a decade.

For example, the other day I was sitting in a room waiting for a meeting to start. The mother of the client entered the room. The only reason I could identify her is because I knew she was coming. If I saw her someplace else, I'd have no idea who she was until it was more or less revealed to me by conversation.

I am very good at recognising clothing, hairstyles etc. also details like glasses help, so I can go a long time without trying to introduce myslef to people I already met several times... but it does happen from time to time.

I have issues with prosopragnosia. I heard that 60% (It may have been a higher percent) of people with prosopragnosia are on the autism spectrum. It is one of clues along the way which pointed me towards the autistic spectrum.

Perhaps it is more common than I thought.