Face Blindness
Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a condition where you fail to recognize or distinguish faces.
There was a time in my life when I was extremely face blind.
All someone had to do was put a wig on and I would fail to recognize them.
This happened when I was nine years old and my Grandmother put one on. My Mother called me downstairs and introduced me, saying it was a friend.
I totally failed to recognize her and was very shy and awkward.
My Grandmother, after a minute or so said: “Now it is enough,” and took off the wig.
For me, it was vaguely worrying that I had failed to recognize someone that I thought I knew well.
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