On the other hand, every time I see my wife, is the first time.
But if I can articulate details about a person in language, I can remember that language. It’s got a poor accuracy rate, but is better than nothing. Usually it’s just remembering clothing, style, and hair.
So you can remember faces by features? “Blue eyes, red hair, mole on lip => Debby”? I can imagine that gets difficult, especially with relatively homogeneous cultural groups.
I’m kinda the opposite, I recognise faces, but because I can’t picture them, I can’t describe details unless I deliberately committed them to memory. Realised about 10 years in that I didn’t know my partners eye color.
Can you picture other stuff? Anything that’s not human faces? Prosopagnosia is real, and I have it too.
Not really, at least not as an “image”. I have a concept of what an apple looks like, I just can’t image it in my mind.
Yup, that’s full-on aphantasia!
The tricky part, and I guess its true for many conditions, is that I can’t imagine any other way for things to be.
Also, nothing like the movie :D
Having sat down and read some more, I dont think I have prosopagnosia. I can’t picture her face, but I can recognise/remember people by their faces.
It sounds pretty tough to live with, have you always had it?
Yeah. It got worse after my second stroke.
On the other hand, every time I see my wife, is the first time.
But if I can articulate details about a person in language, I can remember that language. It’s got a poor accuracy rate, but is better than nothing. Usually it’s just remembering clothing, style, and hair.
So you can remember faces by features? “Blue eyes, red hair, mole on lip => Debby”? I can imagine that gets difficult, especially with relatively homogeneous cultural groups.
I’m kinda the opposite, I recognise faces, but because I can’t picture them, I can’t describe details unless I deliberately committed them to memory. Realised about 10 years in that I didn’t know my partners eye color.
Yeah, that’s basically it!