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Hi, my name is Leigh. I'm curious about ADHD, autism, and prosopagnosia.
Hi, my name is Leigh. I'm curious about ADHD, autism, and prosopagnosia.
Does anybody of you have this condition with the strange Greek name of PROSOPAGNOSIA- The inability to recognize other peoples faces.
Can be sooo embarrassing.I talk to someone, it is a good time, we have fun. next day- I don't recognise this person because all people seem to have the same facial features.
At least I know I am not alone with this rare condition. Brad Pitt seems to have it, as Newspapers here in 🇨🇭 middle Europe reported last week.
My dad and my Uncle have it, and so did my late Grandpa.
There is no cure. I do have thick glasses because of high short sightedness, but they dont help for this condition.
Anybody out there who has the same problem? #InvisibleDisability #InvisibleDisabilitiesWeek #shortsighted #Blindness #EDS #Autism #brad Pitt
Hi Mighties,
My atypical hEDS goes together with High Myopia. I have like minus 7 dioptria left, minus 5.75 on my right eye. So I wear those glasses with quite thick glass.
My problem in society is that I can't recognise people by seeing their face.
So I might spend an evening chatting and talking and having fun with a couple of people I just met.
Next day- really embarassing🙈- I dont recognise the person any more.
This makes me look arrogant.
I have read in media, that Brad Pitt seems to have the same problem, but he does not know anybody else with this problem called Prosopagnosia- the inability to recognise people by their face.
At least I am not alone with this problem. My Dad and my Uncle, both with even higher Myopia than me (-15 or so), also have Prosopagnosia. We recognise people by their gaith. So when somebody stands or sits down, it is impossible to recognize this person 🙈
Does anybody out there also have Prosopagnosia? #eds #Depression #myopia #visual impairment #brad Pitt #bendy #SocialAnxiety #Blindness #Blind
I did a research that inability to recognize faces is a symptom of Prosopagnosia.
But what about having an ability to recognize faces, but having trouble understanding the context of facial expressions? Is that a milder symptom of Prosopagnosia? It's a symptom of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Communication Disorder.
The way I had Freguli-like expirences from my early childhood, is when I had profound symptoms of Prosopagnosia, when I saw everyone's faces, it looks like dark web mask, thought, and misidentified my family with others, because I thought that they are all the same.
I was aware that that I had severe developmental problems and was self-aware of Fregoli-like expirences throughout my childhood.
I knew that my beliefs were false, but my belief was still fixed, and sometimes misidentified my family with others, but I kept it to myself, because I knew that I would come off as strange.
I have been wondering. If it wasn't a delusion, I don't know what else to call it, because what I had is similar to Fregoli-like experiences.
I did have a little bit of anosognosia, but not to severe extent.
When I had profound Prosopagnosia from my childhood, when I saw everyone's faces, it looks like a dark web mask, thought and misidentified my family with other people, because I thought that everyone was the same.
I wonderd if Autism Spectrum Disorder is related to a delusional belief, in the context of issues with social skills.
When I used to have severe symptoms of Prosopagnosia, I had a fixed false belief that no one has facial expressions, that phenomena became milder with therapy and social skills training, I stopped having this belief when my social skills improved in my late adolescents.
I wonder if Angosia is a form of Misidentification Syndrome.
When I had severe symptoms of Prosopagnosia when I was a child, I had a belief that everyone's face was poker face. When I was a young teenager, I started to see facial expressions, but still had hard time reading people's faces expressions, and still thought they had poker face until I was an older adolescent.
I have Autism Spectrum Disorder.