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I have learned to live with it. Basically whenever I meet someone I say, "hey, I can't recognize faces". I still recognize people but only by clothing, hair, fa

I have learned to live with it. Basically whenever I meet someone I say, "hey, I can't recognize faces". I still recognize people but only by clothing, hair, facial hair or black thereof, etc. If someone gets a haircut, it completely throws me off. I mainly see software helping me organize my photos. I have always dreamed of a Google Glass like thing that would instantly tell me who everyone is, but I think everybody would find it creepy. Of course currently people find it weird that it takes me >15 seconds to recognize a friend when it seems to take everybody barely 2 seconds.

throwaway189262 6y ago
I've read you can train yourself to be decent. It would be interesting to use output from facial recognition software as "flashcards" for yourself. Look at it like recognizing stuff like cars and watches. Somebody really into the space can tell you the brand of either immediately, and sometimes the model. Definitely a learned skill rather than innate like faces are for most. Just saying, might be fun to try to train yourself to recognize your top X people, for science.