face blindness

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do you know of people who have face blindness who are NT? is this even possible?

i met a guy last night who is faceblind. he wasn't making eye contact during most of the conversation.

I thought faceblindness was something different from not making eye contact, or are you saying you think he isn't NT?

Face blindness is when you don't recognise faces..

And yes there are NTs with it -> prosopagnosia

Yes, typical people can have prosoprog... damned if I can spell it, and I'm good speller. Thing is that I don't know how to SAY it, so I have nothing to base the spelling from. But we all know what we're talking about.

Your quote doesn't mean what you want it to mean. It's saying it's possible that all people with ASD have face blindness... not that all people with face blindness have ASD.

I don't have the link now, but the most detailed and helpful description I've ever read of prosopagnosia was written by someone who was not autistic.

It is basically the same thing as when you lose your keys, you can see them in the drawer or on the mantelpiece but your eyes scan right over them because they are not used to seeing them there, exactly like face blindness, I can talk to someone one week and the week after completely forget who they are if they are taken out of the initial environment

I don't think it is so serious as forgetting what you look like or anything that drastic, but not being able to recognise people when taken out of context, and yes I do this sometimes myself and forget who people are when passing on the street unless I know them really well

it turns out there are two types of prosopagnosia - developmental and acquired.

developmental means you grew up with it, and acquired means you got it later in life.

i'm willing to bet the NT's with prosopagnosia are the acquired cases.

and 100% of those with developmental prosopagnosia are on the autism spectrum.

anyone have any links that can disprove this theory?

https://www.faceblind.org/research/

Scroll down a bit. There are many reasons for developmental prosopagnosia, including genetics, early brain damage, and vision issues.

Is it possible to have face-blind problems but not, for example, be completely unable to recognize family/friends? I definitely have issues remembering/recognizing faces, but it's not to the point where I won't be able to to tell who my mom is.

Example of how it affects me - I have a coworker who sits a few feet away from me at work. I see her 5 days a week. I recently saw her outside of work, and I only had the faintest idea that it was her - the only way I was able to have more of a solid idea was looking at her shoes, which I was able to better recognize than her face. Part of this is surely the fact that I have trouble with eye contact and thus don't look at peoples' faces as much, but it can't all be attributed to that when it's someone I'm around for 40 hours/week.