- ‘Mum, on my way home from school I met a very nice lady. We chatted. She sent you her best wishes.’ - ‘But who was this nice lady?’ - ‘I don’t know, but she knows us all: she asked how we all were doing…’ - ‘Why didn’t you ask her name?’ ‘Oh, mum, it’s so embarrassing…' There is a neurological condition that, though not specific to autism, appears to be quite common in (at least, some) autistic individuals. It’s called prosopagnosia, or face blindness. People with this cond