“We’ve Met Before”: The Stress of Living With Face Blindness

Jennifer Nelson
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readMar 19, 2024

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A woman with red hair and an orange shirt has her face blurred out.
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Did you know that some people struggle to recognize other people’s faces? “Face blindness” is officially called prosopagnosia, and it’s something I’ve struggled with for as long as I can remember.

Some people struggle with prosopagnosia so much that they can’t even recognize the faces of their family members. I don’t have it to quite that degree, but I can’t…

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