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"Face blindness" & autism?
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<blockquote data-quote="--Eleanor--" data-source="post: 59903" data-attributes="member: 3620"><p>Both my son (High-Functioning Autism (HFA)) and my mom (never diagnosed with anything but has lots of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) traits and hyperlexia) both have pretty severe face-blindness. My mom tells me, in fact, that when she was growing up, one of her friends was missing an ear, but she never noticed (for more than 10 years) until someone mentioned it. And this was a male friend, in the days of crew-cuts... My son can't recognize his teachers when they change their hair styles or hair color. And I think I've got a bit of this trait--I can easily identify people if they are where I am used to seeing them, but if I run into a teacher at the store, or someone who works at my office in the park, I have to struggle to figure out who they are (although I know that I know them from somewhere).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="--Eleanor--, post: 59903, member: 3620"] Both my son (High-Functioning Autism (HFA)) and my mom (never diagnosed with anything but has lots of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) traits and hyperlexia) both have pretty severe face-blindness. My mom tells me, in fact, that when she was growing up, one of her friends was missing an ear, but she never noticed (for more than 10 years) until someone mentioned it. And this was a male friend, in the days of crew-cuts... My son can't recognize his teachers when they change their hair styles or hair color. And I think I've got a bit of this trait--I can easily identify people if they are where I am used to seeing them, but if I run into a teacher at the store, or someone who works at my office in the park, I have to struggle to figure out who they are (although I know that I know them from somewhere). [/QUOTE]
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