Medical Condition That Can Make You Not Able To Recognize People’s Faces

When someone is experiencing facial blindness, they will need to rely on other factors other than their face to recognize people. They may have to look at your hairstyle or listen to your voice before they can recognize your face.

According to Healthline, this medical condition is known as prosopagnosia. It usually happens at a large social gathering, and you find it difficult to remember the faces of people you’ve met before.

Popular Hollywood actor, Brad Pitt recently announced that he had this condition. Some people find it hard to even recognize their friends, relatives, or spouses.

Normally, we should be able to easily recognize friends and relatives we’ve met before, even if they change their hairstyle and look. However, someone suffering from prosopagnosia won’t be able to identify if they’ve seen people’s faces before.

They know that they are looking at someone’s face, but they can’t recall if they’ve met the person before. They walk beside you and believe that you are a stranger. This is because they can’t pick up any other clues on your body to identify you.

Some of them can’t even recognize their faces after looking at them in a mirror. Prosopagnosia is usually a congenital defect. Most people are born with this eye defect because it runs in their family.

Someone who has autism is also predisposed to having prosopagnosia. However, not all those who suffer from autism also suffer from facial blindness. There are different types of prosopagnosia.

Someone can have this condition without having any brain disorder. This type of prosopagnosia happens due to their genetic makeup. Another type of prosopagnosia is the one that happens to someone after suffering from a stroke, injury to the head, or brain damage.

The fold in their brain has been damaged. This affects the normal coordination of the neural system which helps us remember faces.

However, it doesn’t have anything to do with memory loss or eye problems. People who suffer from facial blindness are usually shy and unable to socialize with other people.

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