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by NewsaHackO 13 days ago
A lot of people are face blind (including me), and it's extremely embarrassing, especially when I'm supposed to remember a person's name. Wouldn't wear survialiance tech to try to fix it though.
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A lot of people are face blind

3.08%, according to https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-common-face-blindness

so 250 million people? Thats a good amount of people.
That is a lot! Is it a spectrum? do some people recognize very close relatives but not acquaintances etc.?
Wow! At those odds it seems highly likely I know someone who has it and like someone else in this thread said, are good enough at piecing together the other clues that they never had to disclose it.
I didnt know this was a thing, how severe is it for you?

I have a similar thing with names when and I think it's just because my brain somehow decides that interaction meant nothing and the information was not important to save.

3 in 100 is a lot, yet I have never met anyone in person who disclosed that they are face-blind. Your flock needs to break the stigma and mention it more if possible I guess.