My Life with Prosopagnosia (PPG)
Prosopag-what ?... I have a bewildering and peculiar disorder; it is called prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize or remember faces.
"I've never seen that person before in my life " is my usual mental response to 'familiar people' I encounter daily . Though I clearly view persons in my visual field my brain fails to 'store' most faces in memory thus I usually don't remember a face after I see it. My world, it seems, consists mostly of strangers. I suppose when they passed out that facial recognition skill (in infancy) I must have been snoozing, (somebody should've nudged me ;-) .
This inability to connect the visual input of faces to the proper storage area in memory, only recently named 'prosopagnosia',
'PA' , or 'face blindness' primarily affects face recognition and often has other accompanying peculiarities such as difficulty differentiating between some generic objects (cars and houses etc.). Since this is a newly examined disability I will be presumptuous enough herein to give it the acronym I use ; 'PPG' (for ProsoP-aGnosia).'
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