Is it possible to have aspergers but be good at reading face

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Is it possible to have aspergers but be really good at reading faces at the age of 25? Sucked in social interactions in childhood though, and many other symptoms.

I got 32 out of 36 points on that "Mind in the Eyes" test.

I did it again and it seems I'm improving. My test score was in the single figures 2 years ago, now I got 12 Yay I'm learning. That being said most of those were guesses that just happened to be right.

I didn't even think it was possible to tell what people were thinking by looking at their eyes, I thought people were lying about mind-reading

Do I... have a low IQ, btbnnyr? I hope not

I've never heard of Mind in the Eyes test.

I did very poor on tests of reading social cues in my neurological exam. However, I believe in real life, I do better than almost everyone I know--with some caveats. I almost never see anger or a person ready to do harm, so I'm strongly biased away from those. I also think I have a *much* more crude system of analysis than others--typically, I can only tell if another person is feeling "good" or "bad"...not the finer details. In real life, then, I seek to find out from the person and help resolve issues. In this way, my way may be significantly more functional, even if it is "simpler".

I've been training myself to read facial expressions, so I end up doing pretty good on those tests. I watch a lot of shows and documentaries that talk about expressions (I started doing this thinking it would help me with my own expressions, but it hasn't helped...)

I got 27 in the test, which is almost right on average.

I found the test. I got a 29, which is above average. Cool.

A lot of us have areas where we are not effected as much by autism. I do really bad on face reading tests. But I am good at figuring people out online and am called funny and good at sarcasm online.

One of the differences between aspergers and kanners is that the aspergian can learn just about anything he sets his mind to.
indeed, it is quite possible to train your "mind reading", especially if this happens to be your special interst.

that said; i also did this test, but only 4 questions had the answer i thought it should be as an option (and, as you guessed, a wrong option). for example: the obviously hostile expression had the options: "happy/content/flirting/interest"
i got an 8 in score, by guessing.

I got 26 which is incredible, I have done similar tests in the past and scored really low. I have been teaching myself facial recognition for a few years now and it appears to be paying off. That said, when I looked at the photos without looking at the multiple choice I had little to no idea, it was only by getting clues from the answers that I was able to get so many right. Unfortunately in the real world peoples faces do not have a pop up screen with written clues. But hey progress is progress.

Yes, why not? Everything is possible

Sure. It's a syndrome, and not all of us will match all the descriptions. For example, I am clumsy, but have worked
on that for years by taking dance classes, and now am quite average. I myself cannot recognize people easily unless
they have an extreme physical trait. Or, if I run into them outside of the where I see them all the time, I do not
recognize them. Used to be really bothered by this, thought I was just a rude, self absorbed person, but now I
just say, "Sorry, not good at recognizing faces" and move on.