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@pete First, I’ll add the #ActuallyAutistic hashtag and tag the group @actuallyautistic - it’s totally ok for you to use these! That’s even if you’re still not sure if you’re autistic. It’s a way to ask the autistic community questions, along with the #AskingAutistics hashtag. The main ‘autism’ hashtag also works, but it tends to be used more by the autism industry, not necessarily by autistic people themselves.

And yes! Face blindness seems to be quite common for autistic people, to varying degrees. The word for it is prosopagnosia. You’re not alone there!

I’ve also heard the opposite - that some autistics are extraordinarily good at recognising faces. And this is because autism is a spectrum with people having traits that are often outside the ‘norm’ (statistically speaking) and that can go either way. But mostly I’ve heard autistic people talk about the challenges of face blindness versus strengths of facial recognition.