Yours Sincerely

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Umm so hi! Please if you have facial blindness stay. Becouse I need help. So...I am not diagnosed. And I didnt even knew that it was a thing, but Im starting to think I have it, so...yeah, please tell me if Im right if u have it. So its getting really bad. It started by just me not being able to remember faces. Like not being able to picture them in ny head. If I knew the person real good I would remember their features one by one, but I could never put it together. Then I started forgetting how people look and not recognizing people I dont know well. Like for example every time I meet someone I make little notes in my head abt their nost noticable feature. I met a boy who had a weird haircut and I noted that. We saw each other sometimes, but one day his hair was on a ponytail on one side and I didnt recognized him. It happens eith everyone. I met a woman last year and when we had to meet her again my mom was questioning why I didnt recognized her. Am I supposed to be able to do that? Please, tell me Im not exaggerating.

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P.S. It hasn't been that way always. I dont know why it developed, but its slowly getting worse and worse. I dont quite remember my face either and when I am wearing different hairstyles I feel like my face is totally different. (Theres a lot more, just examples)

i totally understand what you're saying! I have a mild case of prosopagnosia, so I'm a little less severe than some people. if someone asked me to draw my face or a close relative/friend I would struggle. it's like I know my features but I can't picture them together if that makes sense. I know i have 2 eyes, a nose, lips, etc but I can't make a face out of them. and envisioning a face in my hesd is completely out of the question. i cant put peoples faces together to actually "make" a face. everyone starts to look... the same (?) a lot of movies depict faces as "blurry" but obviously thats not what we see. best example is that its like showing me the ingredients for a cake. i know what the ingrediants are but i dont know how to put it together. I get celebrities confused all the time because theyre always changing their hair and outfits. they also wear a lot of makeup so distinctive scars or marks are hard to spot. not "knowing" your own face can be really... sad sometimes. it can almost make you feel lonely in a way. go to a doctor because I feel it will really help explain things you don't understand. at least it did for me. I always just thought i had bad memory, but trust me, there's a difference between bad memory and facial blindness. there's ways to help cope with it but i don't think there's a cure yet.