my ADD-PI: stimming and prosopagnosia (difficulty recognising faces)

[belenen]

icon: "ADD-PI (two electromicroscope photos of crystallized acetylcholine, overlaid & warped in several ways)"Some people say ADD is on the autism spectrum, and I certainly see a lot of similarities between my experience as an ADD person and other people's experiences with autism. Someone with autism mentioned having trained out their stimming

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[kehlen]

The prosopagnosia may also be partly why you have so many icons with your face on them.

I can slightly relate to this. While I recognize faces and know where I've met the person, even if it has been years earlier, I cannot, for the life of me, remember their name. Much less awkward than not knowing who they are, but awkward enough when I'm supposed to talk to them, or when I'm in a small class/group of people and keep asking others for names/writing them down and waiting for someone else to address them to confirm which name belongs to whom.

Might be problematic if I end up teaching.

[lorelei_sakti]

I have the face problem too, and the stimming. I've picked at my thumbs with my fingernails for as long as I can remember. It happens more when I'm stressed out. I also get self conscious and hope people don't notice I'm doing it.

And I have a hard time with faces. I ran into a coworker one day a short while after work at a grocery store, and he recognized me, but it took a few moments before I recognized him in regular clothes. And I spent the entire first half of a play sitting next to a girl I'd met before and thinking she was a total stranger. I was very upset with her taking the seat next to me that I was reserving for my friend Noelle while she had to sit in the row behind me. It wasn't until Intermission when I finally recognized her, lol.

It gets tough at jobs sometimes when people seem to look alike. Takes forever to learn names because of that.