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.)

I don't think I've had that problem--well not one I could resolve, anyway. If I can't recognise you out of context, you are not in my facial recognition system, period. I needed that space for someone else, and you and I, we're going to have to start from scratch. But that's an interesting issue.

And, wow, is this ever matter...

Here's my attempt at bringing it back around...

They demonstrated on the show that people with face blindness use other clues about a person that might help them recognize, so I didn't really buy the friend being mistaken for the wife long term. Once, I could see, but the wife now living as the maid - her voice, or something, no recognition there at all? He "recognized" a stranger in a line up from a widow's peak and a voice recording. Show is not selling me on its plots.

I've had trouble recalling someone's name when meeting them out of context, but I recognize faces unless they've changed drastically since the last time I saw them, so not a worry for me.

I recognize people who were customers, fellow bus riders and who moved out of my district in kindergarten. I do not have the face blind worry. I do sometimes replace actors in movies with other actors in my memory. For example movie Buffy is Chriatina Applegate and the boy in Blue Lagoon in Willy Aames