Face recognition problems and a game to test it

[Ron Obvious]

11. Your experience is the same as mine

I know that friends feelings have been hurt or think I am arrogant. Actually I have been told many times over the years that I am standoffish when the truth is i have no clue who the person I am talking to is.

That's exactly my experience. A lot of people think I'm standoffish as well. It even causes problems when watching TV or movies. I often have to ask my wife "now is that the same guy as the one in the beginning?", and she'll look like at me like I'm a moron and say "of course it is", or "of course not - it doesn't even look like him at all".

It's funny, but my she and I watch a lot of old TV series and we enjoy spotting well-known actors when they were young. She's much better at it than I am, of course, but sometimes I spot a face that she doesn't. Sometimes I'm completely wrong and there isn't even a resemblance to who I think it is (or at least no one else thinks so), but sometimes I spot one that nobody else does. We must notice different things about faces than ordinary people do.