Testimonials – Neither silly, blind, nor snobs, people with prosopagnosia have great difficulties in distinguishing faces, sometimes to the point of not recognizing their loved ones. An invisible handicap that leads to multiple difficulties …
“I can almost remember the faces of my children, but that’s it. »» “I had trouble recognizing several people who presented themselves unexpectedly [sur le pas de ma porte]including my sister. »» “My husband (…) surprised me at the airport and I did not recognize it. »» Would you like to live in a world filled with foreigners, “A magma informs with a lot of heads” ? This is the fate of prosopagnosics. They have suffered since childhood from a funny handicap: an inability to recognize faces.
These people have no vision or memory problem, their cognitive capacities are intact, their normal intellectual quotient. Do not believe them cold, snobs or contemptuous, or that they would have more difficulty than another in retaining the names. But they do not distinguish faces (even, sometimes, if their owners are of different ethnicities), or forget the characteristics in a few minutes, hours or days. A…
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