Prosopagnisia

Prosopagnisia is a condition also called face-blindness. The person in this condition cannot recognize people's faces. I heard about these people who had an accident and became one, and I thought that this was a very rare condition. However I discovered that there are people who were born with it, and not completely unable to recognize the faces, but have difficulty recognizing the faces. When I read about this, I noticed all the things that I had difficulties with recognizing faces.
For those people who didn't have an accident and having difficulties, I have read that in some theory, they suspect that eye sight during the young age could contribute. If this theory is true, then my case would fit perfectly. I had horrible eye sight but never used any glasses until 13 or 14. I could not see the blackboard in class at the front seat at that time and I got my contact lenses. So I had lived with bad eyesight for a very long time.
I don't have difficulties with all faces, but some particular type of faces make me very confused. For example, when I was in grade school, there were some skinny boys with glasses. I couldn't distinguish them. When I was helping a teacher to return the result of the quizzes to people, I always had to ask my friend which one was which. I thought that I couldn't recognize them because I didn't play with them and I don't really look at them. But this wasn't the only time.
My husband has lots of friends. Sometimes when we were walking outside, he sees his friend and introduces him to me. Almost 100% of the time, if we see the same person again on the street, I have no memory of his friend's face. My husband thought that I wasn't paying attention, but I just couldn't remember the face of the person I only met few times. I do recognize faces eventually if I see them often enough, but drastic changes could cause problems.
One day, my husband's cousin introduced us to his new girl friend. Brown hair with very striking looking beautiful young lady. We talked together for a while and we decided to see each other at the restaurant in the following week. We spent time together talking, and nothing was particularly odd as we all talked. In a course of three months, we all went out at least three times or so and we saw one another at different occasions. One day, we went to visit his aunt's house. She is the mother of my husband's cousin. He was living alone at different location, so we didn't expect to see him there, but he has several brothers and sisters, so any one of them could be there. When we got to the door, a blond lady opened the door and greeted us. I thought she must be a girl friend of his another cousin because I didn't recall seeing her before. My husband started talking with her and we all sat together and just talked. Since no one mentioned her name, I didn't know who she was but she was very easy going and we just sat and talked like old friends. About one hour passed there, someone says something indicating that this girl is the girl friend of his cousin who I met many times before. My husband says to her that she looks nice in blond, and now I realized that who she was. Thank god that I didn't say anything like asking her name or who she was, because that would be very embarrassing.
Another thing that I noticed was that I think I recognize faces so much slower than others. If I see someone in a mall and if I notice the person is someone I know, he or she already knew. I think often people think that I ignored them at somewhere but probably I didn't recognize them. I had many incidences that I start making friends with someone and after a while they start ignoring me. I might have passed them by somewhere and they thought I ignored them, but I just didn't see them. I might be looking at the direction of them but it doesn't mean that I recognized their faces.
I also have problems with TV and movies if there are many characters. Before I become familiar with them, if they change hairstyle, hair colour or clothes, I get confused. I see the person as a new character, so of course things don't make sense. Once I went to show my daughter children's play at the local theatre. This was a small theatre with a few actors and only about 30 audiences would fill the space. During the play, some actor changes clothes and I had to ask my daughter which character he was. It was a bit difficult for me to follow.
I am never diagnosed with anything, but I suspect that I do have some minor face blindness tendencies. Not sure if that was something to do with my poor eyesight or neurological.