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I've got prosopagnosia; if you have the same hair color and style as someone else, you might as well be identical twins for all I can tell.
Huh, I never knew the word for it. Thank you.
My wife has said many times, to me and others, that she thinks I have a form of face blindness. I don't think I do.
It came up because every time someone said something like "doesn't X look like Y when they were little?", and I'd respond that I don't see it. So many people say my kids are a splitting image of me... Nope, I don't see that.
I recognise people I know in photos, new or old photos, usually without issue.
I do however often think an actor is someone they aren't. "Hey, is that the person from this other movie", my wife: "what?! No! They don't even look alike". And sometimes I'll ask her if a random person looks like this or that person, usually with the same response, sometimes a strange look and "are you feeling ok?".
Anyway, these guys should team up on a project. /s
I think I also must have face blindness. My wife says that my son is my spitting image, but I think he kind of looks like the postman. Face blindness for sure.
Weird, my daughter also looks like your postman. Funny coincidence isn't it?
My wife has said many times, to me and others, that she thinks I have a form of face blindness.
I wonder about myself sometimes.
I have a really hard time recognizing someone if the context changes unless I know them fairly intimately. If I see someone I work with every day at the grocery store I will have no problem recognizing them. If I see someone who I wave to in the building when we pass, but who I rarely if ever interact with, I will really struggle to notice that it's someone I know. I've run into my son's teachers (who I generally at least see every day during the school year even if we don't interact) and had 30 secs of panic before I could click into place who I was talking to.