201– Prosopagnosia – Face Blindness

Prosopagnosia

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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