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by MiddleEndian 1308 days ago
In contrast with everyone else, I struggled a lot with this when just looking at the faces. I made twenty attempts and got ten successes and ten failures. After reading other comments, when attempting again by looking at the backgrounds, I tried ten more times and went nine and one.

But I believe I am somewhat face-blind. I have never understood how people were able to describe faces to the cops to make those mockups of criminal suspects. I also struggle to recognize faces sometimes, including celebrities and new dating partners. At a past job, I remember thinking two of my coworkers were the same coworker until I saw them at the same lunch outing and it suddenly clicked. I recently got confused by two characters in an action movie with less than a dozen characters total, and realized shortly after that they had different ethnicities.

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Similar here. Although my inability to distinguish faces is only mild. But for the longest time I thought Donna Noble[1] and Sarah Jane Smith[2] were the same character. They still look the same to me, modulo the wrinkles.

[1]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Noble>

[2]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jane_Smith>