It's so frustating when people can't understand why you're not say hi to them, why you ignore them, why you look at them like you never meet them, like first met.

I have mild prosopagnosia. I can easily get confused with similar faces and at the same time have difficulty recognising faces often until I'm used to it or studied it and given a lot of time to think about it. I mostly can sense eyes, hair, smell, voice, gait/ body movements and clothing style.

I'm currently writing a 10 page research paper about Prosopagnosia. Thank you for the helpful teaching !

I have mild prosopagnosia but I have developed a heightened ability to recognize people by the sound of their voice.

Funny thing: even in my dreams people don't have faces. They never have eyes and very rarely have mouths. That sounds terrifying, but I actually "know" and "feel" when they look or smile at me. In my daily life I work with a lot of patients every day and i kind of started to take notice of other things so I don't embarrass myself. Like clothes or hair, sometimes they have trouble walking or have a certain behaviour. In any case I check their idendity so I don't make mistakes. But when I meet someone after a long time I most certainly can't tell for sure who they are.

I can’t recognize faces…. Like I remember people by their character, or how they talk. I can never remember faces no matter how hard I try….. I’ve had this issue for as long as I can remember. So…. Any advice?

Really helpful thank you very much!

I have the associative type. Not impossible, but pretty bad. Every member of my family for generations.

I have been told many times in my life that I'm definitely someone who looks outside the box. I've found solutions to problems that everybody else thought was pure genius. I think they were overreacting just a little because the idea never occurred to them, is all. I recently learned that I have face blindness (Prosopagnosia). This means that for the most part, I do not recognize people when I look only at their face. Because of this, I have to memorize something different about them. I look for a defining feature, like a scar or their eyes, nose, or the way they speak and so on. Something unique to them. Because I look at things differently, compared to most people. Makes me wonder if this trait carries over into other areas of life and is the origin of a person that is an, "outside the box" thinker?

I have suspected I have this for a while now. I don’t recognize myself in the mirror at all, and have never had an easy time recognizing faces. I have the associative type, I believe, as I can see faces, and often imagine them peeling away from one body and replacing on another when I am bored. Facial features are hard to distinguish. I know what a wide nose looks like, but I would not be able to recognize a face with a specific combination of features including a wide nose. Some people have very distinctive traits which I can see, like extremely downturned eyes(one of my friends) or non facial features such as clothing, gait, voice, style, body type, etc. I’ve always felt very bad when I’ve confused certain POC friends for each other because it is seen as even more offensive than usual, and I feel terrible, but if their style looks different than usual or I only saw them from afar, I often cannot tell. One time, my best friend changed his style and dyed his hair and I had no idea who he was. I had to ask a second opinion to make sure I was not being tricked. I also do not recognize myself in the mirror. I see my face and I understand that it is me, but I do not recognize or understand my face as mine. My trans identity complicates this, though I’ve had this feeling since I was a child and have memories of being startled seeing myself in the mirror, thinking someone else was in my room. This has never gone away and has not been something I’ve understood about myself until recently. Thank you for educating people about this!

The Star Report brought me here.

I'm on a quest to find out how someone afflicted with this would interact with scp-096. I'm quite conflicted, to be honest. On one side, it doesn't seem to matter if you're aware that you're looking at 096's face, like with the scramble goggles, but you do seem to have to be aware that the face is there in the first place, like the mountaineer's photograph that only activated 096's effect once the photographer became aware of the slightly off colour 4 pixels that was 096's face. But here with people with prosopagnosia, they do SEE faces, but they aren't capable of properly processing them. I think it would activate 096, since processing its face doesn't seem to play a factor, the bare fact of being aware you're looking at it seems to be enough.

I love this, it's so helpful. Make more videos like this sir, please

Interesting

I remembered someone with someone else's face entirely. My attorney with who I have met with multiple times recently..I thought he had a completely face. I remembered him having a old man's face. I saw my attorney today and was shocked to see him as a younger man i remembered when I saw him and realized I was remembering with a completely different face. Is this prosopagnosia? I have sle lupus and sensory, axonal motor neuropathy

I have prosopagnosia

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