It’s Oddly Hard for Me to Recognize Faces
Can you relate to any of this?
Our psychology professor showed us a video about a woman who had trouble recognizing faces.
Her disability made it hard to maintain relationships with other people. It sounded like a nightmare. I felt so sad for her that I teared up.
Her condition was called prosopagnosia.
So imagine how stunned I was when the clip ended, and my classmates burst into laughter!
“BBC shows are so melodramatic,” they said. My prof agreed with a smile.
What the hell? How could my classmates be so callous? No matter how much the BBC dramatizes things, what the woman went through was still real.
Prosopagnosia? What Prosopagnosia?
I never thought I could have this condition, though, since I could recognize my friends’ faces. Right?
My friends Brittany and Daniel were my lunch buddies in my undergrad. I saw them twice a week.
One day, Brittany had her glasses off.
When I got to the table where we usually sat for lunch, I saw a stranger next to Daniel. I wanted to be friendly, so I held out my hand to her. “Hi, what’s your name?”
