Face blindness - Prosopagnosia

[blade_bunny]

There's a fascinating article in Wired about face blindness (or as it is properly known, prosopagnosia). I was particularly suprised by how common they are now finding developmental face blindness, people who have never been able to identify faces but we just written off as shy. The article suggests that as much as 2% of the population may suffer

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[jatropheus]

Huh, fascinating... Funny, too, that they keep saying things like "thought they were just bad with faces" - isn't it pretty much the same thing, only now they've got a name and reason for it?

Looking over this now, I'm going to do most of it as a friend-locked entry, between my paranoia and the fact that it turned into more of a self awareness thing. It got kinda long...

I'm intrigued as to how it works for others (with and without prosopagnosia), and how to compare these things, particularly perception. Like, in your memory/imagination, are the faces fuzzy or just non-issues? I'll have to get back to that, myself - it's being very frustrating at the moment, I can't tell. Just parts, maybe, a particular smile for this person, the worried brow for another...