While face blindness may be an issue for your loved one with autism, it is easy to confuse face blindness with typical autistic symptoms. Prosopagnosia, also known as “face blindness”, is the inability to recognise faces. It can have a severe impact on everyday life (see below). Face blindness often affects people from birth and is usually a problem a person has for most or all of their life. People with autism who suffer from face blindness may for the first time be in line for a diagnosis of the condition. Scientists at City University and King’s College London have created a questionnaire that they say should help doctors to diagnose … For example, many children with autism fail to respond to non-verbal cues such as smiles, frowns, or other facial "language" – even though they are able to recognize the face they are looking at. 'Face blindness' may involve a failed brain network, and could shed light on autism by Children's Hospital Boston Brain lesions from 44 stroke patients who …