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tagutcow 
Certainly not. From what I understand, at the advanced stages, prosopagnosia inhibits the ability even to recognize a face as a face. I suppose I'm in a grey area between prosopagnosia and severely shitty social memory.
I often don't recognize the same person five minutes after I meet them, so I do find myself trying to remember them by their clothes. After meeting a person about five or six times on different days, I can almost always greet them by name.
Supposedly, prosopagnosias have a tendency to choose unusual/extreme appearances for themselves. I'll theorize that it comes from a desire for people to physically differentiate themselves from each other to a greater degree. I wouldn't be surprised if a few people on a board like this had the condition.
Unless you're not giving us full details, I'd say you're normal. I don't remember names of people I've played ultimate frisbee with for over a year. Why? Because I don't care to pay attention.
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RedLantern I don't think it's fair to generalize aspergians. My older brother has it and i've been to a few of his aspie group meetinings and the diversity of intellect, level of functioning, quirks, social abilities, etc is astonishing. If you've met an aspie, you've met one aspie.
So you're saying that humans are unique?
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redcaimen I dont think anyone meant to cast aspergians on the whole group.
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Mountains Self-diagnosed Asperger's is mostly just bullshit. Most anyone who thinks they have it is probably just an extreme introvert, or good old-fashioned anti-social.
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RedLantern ftfy.
This is the problem with this entire threak, and why I posted my joke threak in DT. Why do we all think we need to be diagnosed (professional or informally) to be special? In real life whenever someone says they have depression, anxiety, etc., I have to ask them if it's been professionally diagnosed. Online, I dismiss it out of hand.
