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   Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 06:57:56 JST Rocketman

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   • Cait the Proud Trans Woman

   @oldladyplays I have the same problem, and use the same strategies.

   Generally, the more I know about someone, the easier it is for me to recognize them. An interesting side effect is that I don’t really recognize an actor from one movie when I see them in another. I just don’t have enough relevant data available!

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     Cait the Proud Trans Woman (oldladyplays@wargamers.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 06:57:57 JST Cait the Proud Trans Woman

     Question: Anyone out there with prosopagnosia got recommendations on how to learn to, y'know...identify people by their faces?

     I'm only coming to realise now that my life has been one long exercise in compensating for prosopagnosia (face blindness). People show me pictures of before and after facial surgeries, and I can't see the changes. You'd think that'd be easy, but my eyes just slide off people's features or something. I don't know how it works, I just know I'm coping with it, poorly, and I want better strategies.

     Mostly I use other things, like what glasses they're wearing, or how they typically style their hair, their build, their clothing choices, all kinds of things, to compensate for my inability to tell similar faces apart. But all of those things are changeable, and indeed often changed.

     So anyone else out there like this? And how do you deal with it?