So what is prosopagnosia have you heard of face blindness all that's coming up.
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Yeah.
I am doing a video on prosopagnosia.
Now this is an interesting video because I have, um, known about, um,
prosopagnosia for a long time, but I didn't know the full kind of terminology
or the name for it, which is quite interesting because prosopagnosia
is also known as face blindness.
That face blindness is when you cannot recognize.
Somebody else's face or you can't recognize faces on people.
And so autism being such a complex condition as it is, um, autistic people
sometimes have issues recognizing people's faces or recognizing
even their family members faces.
Now I have this issue as well.
It's really interesting.
So when I, when I meet people, I listened to that voice and look at their shoes.
And that is how I identify the person in the future, because I have an
issue with looking at people's eyes.
Like most people be able to the spectrum.
And because of that, if y'all not looking someone in the eyes, you're
not really looking at their face.
And if you're not looking at a face, how on earth are you
gonna recognize them again?
And again and again, but prosopagnosia actually is a condition where the.
Prosopagnosia is a condition where the actual communication part yeah.
Of seeing somebody's face it's almost missing.
So the face becomes kind of unrecognizable completely.
And this is, um, also, uh, uh, a condition that can be, uh, diagnosed
with other conditions like down syndrome or other kind of learning difficulties.
Right.
So prosopagnosia is independently diagnosed, but actually comes as
part of almost like an autism.
Bolt-on kind of part of it.
You know, an autism spectrum disorder, although I've never
heard it been diagnosed.
Prosopagnosia I just hear his like face blindness and autism.
Now lots of autistic people have this issue, but some autistic
people don't have this issue.
It's not something that is given.
It's not something that like every single autistic person has faced blindness.
That's not what it is, but it can occur in also see people,
I would say it's like 50, 50.
Most of the people I know who are on the spectrum actually have the same issue with
not recognizing people's faces as well.
And, you know, I do all the time.
I don't even recognize my family members sometimes.
And they could like walk past me in the street unless I hear them.
And again, you've got to think about zoning out when an assistant person
is in a situation or scenario, or they're thinking about that situation.
If someone, you know, walks past them, Because they're
not part of that situation.
They ain't going know they're not gonna, they're not gonna be like, Oh yeah, yeah.
That's blah, blah, blah.
Because you know, you're focusing on the task at hand, not focusing on
what's going on, what else is going on?
And can I spot anybody?
Do I know anybody's faces, but this does lead for some really difficult situations.
Like I remember I was sitting down listen to a talk by Dr.
Luke Bearden, uh, when we were doing keynote talks in,
um, in an autism conference.
And he was saying that he had a girlfriend once and that he went onto a house.
To call, you know, just to call her and see if she was in to hang out.
And, um, when they were in university, And, uh, so there's going to the door.
He asked for his girlfriend and his girlfriend was like,
what are you talking about?
It's me.
Like she answered the door and he didn't recognize it because face
blindness doesn't, doesn't blow easy.
You know, it's not, it's not something that you can really deal with.
And especially if you've not met somebody that often, and you haven't really gotten
used to their, um, That the mannerisms and just being around them by the, by knowing
their voice in that, the way they talk, uh, which is basically my main way, I can
hear people's voices and identify them and just kind of like how I identify actors.
I can't just look at a movie and say like, Oh, that's that guy from the thing I have
to like, listen, I go, Oh yeah, yeah.
The voice is the actor from this thing.
And that's how I recognize all the, uh, all actors that I know from movies.
I just recognize them by voice.
So it's a quite a difficult experience.
Actually.
It's quite an interesting one, but it does cause issues, you know, not knowing
when you know, you meet somebody who they are and you've met them a hundred times.
It's really, really difficult, but it's part and parcel of prosopagnosia
and sometimes autism as well.
Guys.
I'd love to know what your take on it.
Do you have face blindness?
Do you have issues like this?
Pop it in a comment down below.
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