Does anyone else have Facial Blindness

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I have this, have kind of known for a while but find the whole thing so embarrassing. I was just wondering if anyone else has it and how they deal with it. Please no piss takes cause I'm feeling a bit yuk about the whole thing right now.

You seem very stressed about it, OP. I tend to regard it as an inconvenience at worst and mildly amusing at best. So what if you didn’t recognise your BIL and he said something to your sister - do you really, genuinely think they’d judge you for it?

If I make a social misstep because of it I just laugh, apologise and explain. I’ve never had any negative reactions (beyond a couple of ). OH probably finds it the most frustrating because I’m always asking who people are, but he believes by now that I’m not just putting it on.

A friend of mine also suffers, and has a policy of downloading peoples’ linkedin photos once she’s met them and saving the picture to their contact number, which are also grouped by context. Then she can scroll through at social events and try and match the faces up. I’m nowhere near that organised, but thought I’d mention it in case you thought it might help?

I don't have this but very very unobservant when it domes to people. If I bump into someone out of context I have a hard time recognisinb them or placing them. People always tell me that I have walked passed them and not said hello.

I tend to remember dogs and children though.

Yes me. I teach approx 550 pupils a fortnight and I find learning names incredibly difficult. I explain it to the kids though and tell them that if I call them the wrong name just to tell me “It’s X, Miss”.

Give me a pupil name though and I can give you a great potted history of how they are getting on - I know WHO they are, just not always what they look like. Hair colour is my first reminder trick, seating plan, similar to siblings and overt behaviour / movement characteristics are my others.

It takes me ages to be able to recognise people's faces. Many times I've been talking to someone and had no idea who they were. They clearly knew who I was and I had to listen carefully for clues to figure out who they were (without being rude and asking them). It's embarrassing and DH often has to help me out by whispering a name to me

Yes- me and my dad have this

As a teenager I once walked into a shop and saw a girl walking towards me. I thought, "that girl's wearing the same top as me. And she's got the same bag." It was only when I got close enough to see the edges that I realised I was looking in a mirror.

There've been times when I haven't recognised my children, my husband, my twin, my mum, my best friend, house mates, colleagues I see every day.

Like some pps I'm good at remembering names and anything about people, like their favourite cheese or mild dislike of sparrows or whatever, but faces just don't stick in my mind.

I work in retail and sometimes go and look for things in the stockroom for customers and half the time they wander off to another part of the (admittedly very small) shop. There've been so many times I've had to make a wild guess at which customer it was and been met with utter bemusement as I've tried to hand someone a pile of romance books they have no interest in, with the words "this is all we have at the moment, if you want to have a look through them."