I freak out all the time that I can't call up faces perfectly in memory. But in person, it's never happened. Although NOW I AM SCARED IT WILL, THANKS.

Ditto, and ditto. Although I would not say mine rises to "freak out." But I do wonder if I'll recognize people and I always do. Recognition, not recall!

ION, why oh why did they put a sick cat in Suits???

Hmm. Last thing I saw her as apparently, was as Shawn's girlfriend on Psych for several eps. I'm still trying to sort out what I'm seeing when I think of her as playing someone homicidally nuts. She must remind me of someone else? This is going to bug me.

I have actually failed to recognize people. Usually it's a context thing, like when a woman I only ever saw casually at D&D games turned up dressed to the nines at a Christmas party, and I didn't recognize her. She was unaccountably affronted.

I have walked past family members on the street, but that's me thinking really hard as opposed to face blindness.

The times I haven't recognised people, I've actually managed to excuse myself, that's the thing. I have reasonably few cases of me kicking myself and going "Damn! You really should have known him!"

Well, there was cousin Alex at that wedding, but they stopped us before it was not lega...it was always gonna be legal--they stopped before it was gonna be scarifying.

Ha! Just think. I could have been one of the descriptors at a family wedding.

Remember the New York incest wedding? OMG, great buffet, right? There should always be all you can eat plantain!

I have actually failed to recognize people. Usually it's a context thing

That happened to me freshman year at college. I rounded the corner in the campus convenience store and, ran into this guy, and I stood there with my mouth hanging open, because I 100% knew I knew him, but I could not make my brain get there. He was a guy I knew from high school - not a close friend, obvs. He seemed pretty annoyed when he said, "it's Paul. From A.I." Not my most graceful moment ever. We chatted a bit, but I think he remained kind of offendedish. Sorry, Paul.

ETA: It's happened with people I've met briefly, too, but Paul was totally a context thing. If I'd seen him at home, I wouldn't have choked like that.

See, it never occurred to me to worry that I wouldn't recognize people if I saw them. It just disturbed me that I would try to picture, say, my mom's whole face and get pieces instead of the whole thing.

The context thing does make a difference, too.

I don't really worry about either thing. Watch, I'll have a dream tonight about sudden onset face blindness because of you all...

My oldest brother showed up out of the blue in my dorm room my freshman year of college, and I honest to goodness didn't recognize him for a moment, because he was so completely out of context. Very strange.

Right? Context is very helpful,

(Edited. Wrong thread.)