While I'm completely hopeless with humans, I am somehow able to tell apart cats and dogs with the exact same fur and colour just from their faces alone.

Please tell me I'm not the only one!

Smart glasses seem to be coming back with Ray-Bans Meta smart glasses, after this tech didn’t really kick off with Google Glass. I see a lot of potential in this as facial recognition tech is so good these days (Think Face ID, airport security, 2 factor authentication, etc.) Facial recognition is becoming more widely used. Imagine if when wearing tech glasses and looking at someone, it could tell us their name.

It would require input data, just like how the iOS photo album allows you to search photos by faces, and you can label the faces with a name. I’ve noticed this even works with partial faces and sideways photos. As long as we have an existing photo of that person and add a name to whatever app, then someone could develop some app that works with the glasses to add a label.

I can see this having appeal for those who don’t even have prosopagnosia but are just bad with names.

My dad was an identical twin and I was wondering if seeing two people with the same face when I was a baby impacted my ability to trust how I identify faces. Like, maybe there's a critical time during a baby's brain development when seeing two people with same face just screws up the wiring?

I am in college with a small class group of 20 people for a year now. 70% of the time when I see them on campus I dont recognize them or I tHINK i recognize them but in reality it is a different person (awkward...) I always say the names wrong I have no idea who is who and now all of them completely ignore me and dont greet me at all. I told them a few days ago that I have a problem of recognizing faces and most of them think now i am saying this as an excuse or something and they dont believe me. Only on of them always tells me who she is when she sees me which is really helpful but it suckd that people think that I am lying...

1. I am absolutely trash garbage at lining up name to face (I work in a setting where I have to do that- greeting people by name is expected)
2. I cannot distinctly remember many peoples faces, not even my parents or my own in detail- I couldn't list a particular feature or anything, except maybe eye colour (ony my own and my mothers)
3. I can't distinguish distinctive features on someone's face unless they are really obvious- like a very large nose, or very red eyes.
4. Even after meeting someone for the first time once and having a long conversation and looking at them several times (I make a point of it) I might jsut not remember them at all the next day even if they were to indicate they remember.
5. As my job requires knowing people, I have started a list of people's names and any setting or scenario I can remember seeing then in to remember them.

Occasionally, I'll get a random miracle where I just know someone after seeing them just 2-3 times, but aside from that everyone else is just a total blur and essentially all the same to me. Everyone else at my work (given some have been working there far longer) can recall people with ease and I'm wondering if it's a me thing.

Even after making a new friend one day I will forget their name the next hour after unless I think of it again.

Do I have a problem or am I just forgetful??? Can people normally envision faces in full?

For example, I've been on two dates with this guy. I know I like him and am attracted to him. He doesn't have the best pictures on his dating profile so it doesn't jog my memory well and as of right now, I cannot picture his face in my head at all. Another guy I dated a while ago, I saw him 10+ times. At one point I could remember his face, but right now, I cannot picture his face any more. I just always have such terrible memory for faces but after time, or if I study their picture a lot, I can memorize their face. I've literally met people and cannot for the life of you describe them. Like if I witnessed a murder and had to describe the killer.... I probably couldn't describe the face, color shirt, shoes or really any descriptor aside from mayyybe general height and build. But even then, not reliable. I'm always amazed in shows or movies where people can describe a person with such detail; I thought it was made up.

Does this sound like Prosopagnosia? I would like to use it as an "excuse" to explain to people (mostly at work) why I have such a hard time remembering faces but I don't want to assume because I generally can remember them over time. But it takes a while...

This is his brother’s face on the present. I know prosopagnosia stops me putting pictures with faces on the wall, but this was unexpectedly horrifying today 😭🤣

What is your experience?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027724001021

Hi all! The Visual Cognition Lab at Bethel University in Minnesota is conducting a study looking for adult participants (18 years of age or older) who have or strongly suspect that they have Developmental Prosopagnosia (rather than acquired from brain injury).

The study involves a test of face recognition, a test of object recognition, and a couple of questionnaires and takes 15 - 30 minutes of your time. We are hoping that the results of this study will help us to identify the neural mechanisms that are shared between face recognition and attention. If you are interested in participating in this study, please click this link: [tstbl.co/632-762]. 

If you are not able to participate, we understand! We would love it if you could, instead, comment below with a topic that you would love to see research on related to prosopagnosia! This will help more people to see this post and will also help us to generate ideas for future research that is in-line with the needs of the community for whom the research is beneficial. Thank you in advance! 

Finally, if you happen to know a person without prosopagnosia (e.g. a partner) who would be willing to participate as well, that helps us too as we need a good group of control subjects. For non-prosopagnosic controls, please email us at iey22582@bethel.edu and we will share a different link to participate.

Note: This post was created after the deletion of the original due to an issue with the title, which could not be edited. Those who have already taken this study should not do so again. Also, please do not share details of this study with anyone who hasn't taken it because of potential demand characteristics. Thanks!

Hey there, first post.
I suffered from face blindness for nearly my whole life and i finally had the idea to check if there was a reddit for that issue.

Anyway, this issue poses a lot of problem at my work. I work at a bar with a lot of regulars who will pull the classic 'Give me the usual' line. Which always pains me as, in my mind, this was the first time i saw that person.
So i made a notebook i keep in my pocket, adding names, details of apperance and the usual they get.

One of my coworker took the notebook away from me and read through it and she laughed at me and showed it to her friend, telling me i'm silly.

I do like to follow some political commentary, but its takes me years to know the key players enough to recognise them in cartoons. Im in the UK if you hadn’t guessed 😜

I'll try so search a teacher or student without looking at the name only trying to identify them by their hair

I have a quite severe case of face blindness, but have my own ways to get around, like all of us. But still I can never be completely sure who’s in front of me until they confirm it, I’m sure you know the feeling.

Now I have had wonderful people in my life who make it so much easier for me. But have you had people who don’t do that?

My previous bf messed with me sometimes & I sometimes worry he might still be. But it’s hard to be sure, when I can’t trust what I see. Sometimes I’m so sure it’s him, but he’ll deny it & I can never convince myself to be 100% certain of what I saw.

Do you have any things you did to deal with people who messed with you? Or didn’t take you prosopagnosia serious?

I went to pick him up from football practice. Unbeknownst to me, there were another team playing on the grounds as well. He recently got a new distinctive haircut and was wearing a red t-shirt. So I see this kid with the same haircut and a red t-shirt playing and I stand next to the pitch for five freaking minutes staring and smiling at this stranger kid like a complete weirdo before he came close enough and I realised his hair was not the same and he was older than my son. I nearly died of shame.

And then he walked into the tea room at our work and I didn't recognise him at first! I had to say "sorry, I just thought you were... a man"

He already knows that I have (usually quite mild) prosopagnosia. it was fine, we laughed

But how do you deal with moments like this when it feels... Less fine?

The constant buzz of low grade social anxiety is the tricky thing about prosopagnosia for me

I guess funny moments like this are the good bit! I'm happy to laugh about it

Stolen from Me !!!! If you ask what ? It's my life I know I have prosopagnosia for more then 20 years .... I get used to it , I depend on unique characteristics to recognize people , skin color , body shape , eyes , the way they talk , behave ..... That's my life and I get used to it .... 7 years ago my memory become worst we don't why , I mean by we me and the doctors.... Now my brain can't archive any new information ... if I see you one month ago and I talked to you after one month or less I will never remember that encounter as if it's the first time to meat you .... So now I can't know names I can't remember faces as if every day is a new day for me meating new people .... May be I can handle my situation but I can't handle people face expression when they meat them and I don't simply know them , I don't know anything about them when and where we meat ...but they know everything about me. That why I feel my life is stolen from me I am just a body eat drink sleep and work alone in the word ....

Ever since i found out that face-blindness was a real thing, i was thinking about my whole life up until this point-- mostly difficulties in school that are related to my face blindness.

I had a great friend in school with a facial difference. I don't know what condition she had because i genuinely didn't care about it and I never asked. Everybody looked the same to me except for her, and seeing her and KNOWING what she looked like made me feel very safe and comfortable around her.

I've always loved her and I would've loved her a lot regardless of what she looked like, but she looked familiar to me and i felt at ease whenever I was around her.

With every other person, it's like they're a copy of someone else. I constantly feel like I'm having deja-vu because I always feel like I've seen the person in front of me before. Everyone looks the same, or like slightly-altered versions of the same person. I cannot even pick my own family out of a crowd if they've changed their hair, shaved their beard, they got glasses, etc.

I also noticed that a friend I had in high school was missing her left arm. Nobody else in my school was missing their arm, so I always knew exactly who she was and i never had to guess about it-- and that made me feel safe and comfortable.

It's nice to be around people who I don't have to stress about remembering the kind of clothes they're wearing so i can identify them. I see hundreds of people a day (retail employee), and i feel at ease whenever i see someone who is different. I immediately feel safe.

When i feel like i cannot identify someone, i feel very anxious. I feel like my face blindness contributes heavily to my fear of going in public.

I have what I think of as "a bit of face blindness". When I meet someone new it usually takes me several meetings before I'll be able to recognize them. I usually can't recognize people from photos (I used to always wonder what the point of those "lost child" photos were!)

One time I was at a social meetup event. Someone came over to me to talk and then said that he had face blindness, so it was likely that if I saw him again I'd have to reintroduce myself. I laughed and said that chances are I wouldn't recognize him either, so that's ok don't worry. He was really nice, and sometimes I wonder if we've been at the same social event again and just never happened to notice.

It was so exciting when they finally came together. As i saw the same actor results with each one I googled. I’m 44 years old and have seen all these shows and movies multiple times yay lol

I just get so excited when I’m right about identifying actors and actresses, because I’m usually very wrong.

Anyone else have any wins to share lately??

Anyone else watch this show? The latest plot twist hinges on the same actress appearing in multiple roles through the season. She had a different costume and style each time. I didn’t notice until I read about it online.