About 2% of the population has some difficulties with facial recognition. The scientific term for this is prosopagnosia. It turns out that different people who have prosopagnosia have it to varying degrees of severity. Check out http://www.faceblind.org for information and a bunch of links.
So to answer the question, yes it is normal for a subset of the population.
Is it normal to forget people's faces?
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About 2% of the population has some difficulties with facial recognition. The scientific term for this is prosopagnosia. It turns out that different people who have prosopagnosia have it to varying degrees of severity. Check out http://www.faceblind.org for information and a bunch of links.
So to answer the question, yes it is normal for a subset of the population.