On Prosopagnosia

[gaudior]

Oh, hey, look, it is an opportunity to explain how people look to me!

As I've mentioned before, I have prosopagnosia, or face-blindness. I think it's hard for people who don't have it to understand what that means. I mean, Hannibal had a character who had it, and tried to replicate the effect by always blurring everyone's faces whenever they

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[ryenna]

I have been made aware that I am kind of eerily good at facial recognition, so yes, I can identify him in every one. When Andy and I were going through our movie project I found myself picking out people in the background who'd been in other things. Strangest one I caught: A dude in bit parts in both Flash Gordon and The Empire Strikes Back. Not the most useful innate skill ever, but it does help in my job, given how many people I deal with on a daily basis.

[fiddledragon]

John Malkovich is not someone I instantly recognize, but on looking at the series I can tell for about 2/3 of the pictures that they're the same person. For the Einstein one even if I flip back to one of the other images for reference I can't tell it's not the original photo.

[ashnistrike]

I have mild prosopagnosia (get about 30% on a famous faces test that normal people get above 90% on, and can learn to recognize familiar faces though I hope none of my housemates get a haircut without warning me). I only learned a few months ago that I actually had the thing rather than just being "bad with names," in spite of having described it many times in Intro Psych

[jinian]

I'm with sovay, they look off first because I've seen the original images. A form of image recognition but not quite the right one.

[sandrylene]

That whole page is extremely confusing. I am not amazing at recognizing faces, mind, and I definitely take cues from hair sometimes, but a lot of those are just "the artist asserts this is the same person? Really?" I'm guessing they're all from a similar time period due to the notes on the article, but they just don't look it and I"m so confused. Really about the only thing I can use to cross compare right now is eye wrinkles, and that's not consistent.