Thread by @A_Silent_Child

I can never get into old black and white tv shows.

Mostly it's because I can find things like that difficult to enjoy because of things like the misogyny.

But also I legitimately think I have a difficult time telling characters apart without color.

I know many autistic people struggle with recognizing faces.

I don't have much trouble with it in person. I have a little bit - like I used to get kids at summer camp mixed up if they had the same hair color and cut.

But generally I don't have too much trouble recognizing people.

I do know that I am primarily informed by broader details. I can't remember people's facial features unless I intentionally study them, but I do remember things like hair color and cut, skin color, face shape

I think when I watch black and white tv I have to work a lot harder to understand what is going on, because I don't spend much time looking at people's faces in real life. I find eye contact too overwhelming. So I've learned to tell people apart primarily by colors & hair cut.

Most of the time I never have to look at a person's face to know who they are or talk to them.

I don't remember anyones eye colors but my family. 😅

I've also noticed I haven't gotten "zoom fatigue" yet and I think honestly it's because I don't look at my classmates faces.

So when all the characters hairs are a shade of grey... and honestly in those old movies and shows their hairstyles are often all so similar too...

I think it takes too much work to follow 😂

But that's just a theory 🤷🏻‍♂️