Can any of you see the differences?
Yes. Easily. In all of them. They are very small but very noticeable to me. But only in still shots and the first video images before you press "play".
That said, the video just overwhelmed me -- I have very slow information processing so judging from that video (at regular speed - might be better if I slowed down playback speed, which I often do for animated short documentaries or videos where someone is talking and the words are the only actual information) is just impossible...
The video all just turns into a blur of meaningless, fragmented (metaphorical) nothing...
Also it is an artificial scene using not-very-realistic faces where you cannot see individual muscle groups or skin creases --
they are like cartoonified wax statues, basically --
And it causes information-overload with side-by-side comparison of THREE pairs of faces simultaneously in a perfect grid-row of six....nothing about that imitates any real life context with any number of actual people and that automatically throws me
off....
The video is a
very different thing to looking at still shots of real or artifical comic-like faces; Or even just a more natural side by side comparison of 2 real or animated faces....
Notes:
(1) I do
not have alexythemia. Not at all. Have been told I am unusually self-aware of both my emotions and other inner-state things like why I think and do things compared even to many neurotypical people.
(2) I have
extreme hypervigilance when it comes to the nonverbals of other human beings. Plus visual-spatial strengths that compensate for verbal weaknesses in all aspects of life, including social interaction...
(3) I have spent my life relying on my ability to notice even the tiniest subtle changes or "ill-fitting" bits of people's nonverbals to help get me through interactions where I did not know what was happening or what anyone was saying...nonverbals are a really helpful clue;
And responding to the nonverbals generally is often good enough, and all I can do when I can't figure out what they are talking about....
Sometimes, though, it gets me into trouble (for example:_) because I respond to something the other person is deliberately trying to hide...they then respond to my response by feigning confusion and/or get angry and start arguing something I cannot compute and I become more lost and often panic...
This is a survival thing, I think, not just a strength in visual-spatial vs verbal...I have complex PTSD and a life full of continuous traumatic stress -- my earliest memories of child abuse start at about 2 years old. Seeing the subtle details in people's facial expressions helped me to notice asap when things were going downhill or about to be dangerous, because someone was getting upset even if they were trying to hide it....it helped me eventually idenfity bullying when I never understood the insult/joke or what was going on...to this day it helps me protect myself from people with predatory intent....
(4) But the fact that I see tiny details easily doesn't mean I interpret them easily;
Usually I can categorize very broadly into positive, negative, or neutral emotional range;
But only sometimes can I guess specifics ... a lot of the time I see the tiny changes, the fine details, and have no idea what they signify nor how to respond to them.
Maybe some tiny differences but so small that they make no difference.
