My system is very much based on visual clues, including motion. My system is very typically male, and few females would exhibit it. In Chapter 8B , another face blind man, Pertti, will discuss his system, one which some males and a high percentage of females use. A word must be said, in particular, about hair . It is reported far more than any other visual trait as important by face blind people.
Long hair is particularly easy to recognize, but it is also particularly easy to change.
Many face blind people say that if a person pulls long hair back into a pony tail, for example, that the person will appear to be someone else entirely, and they will not be recognized as a result. Above we considered that people have differing abilities. Using me as an example, I sense motion and three dimensional depth very well, but body language and mannerisms very poorly. And it turns out one of my best ways to remember people is by calculating their body shape by how their clothing moves . There is no way to describe an individual that way in writing, any more than one can describe his face.