literally made me want to cry, I can't even begin to imagine how difficult eveyday must be, and I hate watching this going through the emotions when they ask her "do you recognise this face" as if her answer is going to change
it's really sad when she said " i've lost everybody, like everybody is gone..." also too crucial to let her know the face she couldn't recognize was herself...
I understand that it was necessary for the producers to put her through that to demonstrate the condition, but the more I watched the more I felt that they were just being cruel. Poor Woman to not be able to recognize you own face.
+Edward Mathenge I agree with you. You look at her face at the very end, and her eyes are so sad. It's almost like she realizes she is lost in the world.
I had a hard time sitting through this video, she was so obviously distressed and nothing useful was being unveiled through the repeated test. The message would have gotten through just as well if they stopped at the polaroids, so why prolong her suffering?
But actually it was helpful for me as a medical student .. I am studying now and I want to know how someone prosopagnosia will be like .. I hope all the best for her and to over come this struggle
@@ReginaldTheRooster why are u people so judgemental.. they did not intend to make her suffer.. even she probably agreed to do the test and experiment in the first place.. it was in her own consent to do so.. and i believe this experiment is also intended to raise awareness among common people about this cognitive disability.. so we may get enlightened and understand about how they feel, what they are facing that make them even unable to recognize their own face.. i believe it is intended so we may embrace and have deeper understanding on those poor people..
@@marsel4812 you're right. I think the difference maker here is whether they got her informed consent on what they'd be doing to her. Based on her reactions it doesn't seem like they did. Maybe she's a good actor, maybe they were intentionally vague with the information they gave her, maybe it was like most older psychology research and it was horribly unethical.
I have this problem since I was born. It bothers me a lot and drives me crazy. I can only recognize my parents BY VOICE. I feel anxious when going to crowded places because I wouldn't be able to recognize my company if we got separated. I have trouble making friends because I react like a stranger when they say hello. I get frustrated all the time and it makes me less inclined to acquaint new person. No one seems to understand my condition when I try to talk about it but I don't blame them. In order to compensate this, I have to remember one's voice, build, the way they dress. It doesn't always work out for me but It helps me get some friends that I had. It's hard for me to talk about this because I had given up explaining my condition long time ago.
aword3213 You should read the book "Holding Up the Universe" by Jennifer Niven - it's where I first found out about this condition and you may relate to it. it's about a teen going through the same things that you've just said xx have a nice day
It makes you unique and that can be used as a positive. It's really interesting and shows the amazing complexities of the human brain. I'm very incapable of understanding and memorizing the difference between pronouncing a word as it is written when in fact it is pronounced differently. For example colonel or epitome. I am incapable of getting the proper way through my head and in learning new words and definitions in general. Since this doesn't impact other people really it isn't seen as a big deal compared to facial difficulties.
I have prosopagnosia and it is a terrible thing to experience . Some times in my life it was not so bad but it's killing me now. There's a movie that came out maybe 15 years ago give or take a few years , it was called "50 First Dates" That's what prosopagnosia is like. What has made it so bad for me is too many people lie and play games these days and don't listen. I need to be around honest intelligent people so I can get better because like I said it's killing me .
It's a very common disorder frequently found in people who owe you money. Most people who borrowed money from me started to suffer from Prosopagnosia. This is often accompanied by Amnesia. I have decided not to lend anymore until they find a cure for this disorder.
it's crazy.. people think their lives are so bad, and then you run across stories like this.. it makes you appreciate what you have. God, help this woman get through life as happily as possible. She suffers from a great loss, but I know that you can make her strong through it.
I have prosopagnosia and it is a terrible thing to experience . Some times in my life it was not so bad but it's killing me now. There's a movie that came out maybe 15 years ago give or take a few years , it was called "50 First Dates" That's what prosopagnosia is like. What has made it so bad for me is too many people lie and play games these days and don't listen. I need to be around honest intelligent people so I can get better because like I said it's killing me .
Joyce Geissinger hi Joyce! I'm really sorry that you have to live with this condition. I can only imagine how hard it is every day. I'm praying for you that you do not give up hope for a better future. I would encourage you to ask God why you have this. Expect an answer and He will give you one. Also if you read the Bible at all you will see Jesus healed people. He can do the same for you. I don't say all of this to be some crazy Bible thumper, but because He healed me of a different condition in my brain. I hope and pray you are doing well and that you can find hope in Jesus because He seriously wants to help you. Please let Him. I love you and God bless xoxo
This is interesting and extremely sad at the same time. My heart goes out to her, although the clip looks really old, she's probably in her 70s or 80s now.
I'm studying cognitieve psychology right now. Face recognition depends on complex relationships created by the face's overall configuration - the spacing of the eyes realtive to the length of of the nose, the height of the forehead relative to the width of the face, and so forth. People who suffer form prosopagnosia generally have normal vision. They can gerenerally tell you whether a face is a man's or a woman's, and whether it belongs to someone young or old. But they cannot recognize those individual features. They cannot recognize their own parents or children, whether from photographs or 'live'. They even cannot recognize themselves, sometimes they're looking in the mirror at some stranger when, in truth, they're looking at themselves. This is caused by brain damage of a specific area responsible for recogninzing faces: the fusiform face area. When I read and see this I am so thankfull I don't have this brain disorder! How many things we indeed take for granted! I hope she gets understanding and much love from people in her surroundings, because this I think is so hard for her to have.
This is pretty accurate, I’ve had it since birth so I don’t really see having prosopagnosia as anything but normal. But it’s not that I can’t see faces it’s just that once I look away from someone I have no idea what they look like. What sucks the most about having it is that all the conversations I have with people just blur together because I can’t remember which person told me what.
The more i learn about the way people work and the challenges many have the more i am open and understanding towards others. My wish is that nobody should feel bad about how they function or dysfunction. I know the challenges that they face and being afraid to socialise shoud not be one of them i wish.
Thank you. This video helped me with a patient of mine who has this disorder. Not to this extreme but, this video helps explain to her the situation. My blessing to you.
I'm really curious as to what exactly she's seeing. Is she incapable of distinguishing facial details and only see a blurry mass, or can she just plain not associate a face with anything?
I think it might be a little similar to distinguishing animal faces. I think that can give you an idea of how it's like, even though you're probably still better at distinguishing animal faces than she is with human faces.
The reason she can't recognize faces is that her temporal lobe has been damaged. Often times we take our unconscious processes for granted because we don't know what life would be like without them. For this woman, she is completely unable to recognize anybody. Every person she sees is a complete stranger--no matter who they are, and the sight of their faces doesn't stir up any form of recognition or memory.
I believe I have this disorder, though not nearly to this extent. The intensity to which people have it is a spectrum, with this woman being at the high end and me probably at the low end. For me, a lot of people look similar, which makes it kinda difficult, but not impossible to get to know a person's face. It just takes time to memorize faces. Short story: Just the other day, my hairdresser I've been going to for years said "hello" to me at an autumn/fall party and I looked hard at her and could not for the life of me figure out who she was. In my head, she looked like 1000 other women I have seen (granted, she was wearing glasses and I didn't expect her to be there, so that also threw me off). I said "who are you?" and her mouth dropped... lol. But I instantly recognized her when she told me who she was, so I told her I'd see her in a few weeks for a haircut :)
Shouldn’t put all your eggs in that basket. It isn’t like she absolutely cannot tell people apart. Voice, mannerisms, dressing style, body types, hair color/style, ethnicity (yes) etc. all go into forming the person. It isn’t like everyone is an indistinguishable automaton. There’s so much other material to go off of that face blind people (at least the mild cases) can go years without realizing the issue. Difficulties are chalked up to “inattentiveness”, because that’s the pseudo-moral interpretation of social-addicts. A more relevant challenge is people demand you know them by their face alone and might retaliate if you fail to do so.
I have prosopagnosia and it is a terrible thing to experience . Some times in my life it was not so bad but it's killing me now. There's a movie that came out maybe 15 years ago give or take a few years , it was called "50 First Dates" That's what prosopagnosia is like. What has made it so bad for me is too many people lie and play games these days and don't listen. I need to be around honest intelligent people so I can get better because like I said it's killing me .
I've got the same illness - the hardest thing is that people often thought I was just ignorant or just didn't care about them - that was before I had the diagnosis. Now a lot of my rural ppl still think that way, but at least I know why I can't recognize them
This is very sad. I have bad eye sight, even with glasses, so I can't recognize faces until they are like 3 feet away from me, so anyone I cross in the street further than that also think I'm avoiding them on purpose, even if they are someone I love or someone I'd be delighted to bump into.
The expression she has when she's told that's her in the picture is how I feel every day looking into a mirror... I know it's me but I don't recognize me...
My face recognition is weird and pretty terrible. I can differentiate two faces when shown both but then I think that a great many of faces are very similar to the point where I would mix my friend's face with a stranger's face. I can tell if I like a face or not though. When I look at my own face - I almost see a blank space. I tried many times to describe my own face and categorize it but can only remark on the *most* obvious details.
A good way around faceblindness is voice recognition. Unfortunately for some with prosopagnosia they also have another problem that prevents them from properly interpreting what they hear. That is not the case with me. My ears are my best friend, they are what allow me to hide my faceblindness so well.
@twixiechick I wasn't offended by your comment at all. I'm just letting you know that it's only lonely if you let it be. You take what you get in life and do with it what you can. I can't pick my own picture out of a family album, but I'm not sad about it. I'm a very happy person.
I guess its a fluid border between prosapognosia and bad face recognition. I am so used to it that in movies and real life I have so many often subconscious ways to tell people apart that many times it doesn't even seem like I hab a problem. E.g. I can tell from the way a character behaves if he's a main character or not. But if there is no context at all (which rarely happens in movies) and different/not remembered voice, clothes etc. I can forget very, very long known people :-)
As someone who has a tough time with faces, the only picture that stood out as incorrect was the one on the right. The grey hair gave it away. I guessed the correct picture--however, for the exact same reason she did. The shirt. I also didn't guess the second slide correctly--I guessed it was her mother, again.
I don't recognize people outside the context they "belong to". I cannot picture faces as a whole (also family members)but only some details, which are the cues I use to recognize people, for example :scars, moles, make up style, skin tone. I cannot picture facial features (for example eyes or nose) but I can describe them using words. For example I can remember that a person I know has "big round eyes" but I cannot picture the eyes and they shape in my mind. Voice recognition helps me a lot.
I have prosopagnosia and I easily recognize my mom because of her hair, eyecolor, etc. And most of all voice. Actually I use those things to recognize most of people I need. Bit if you wear a wig I may not recognize you lol
Face recognition is handled by a specific area of the brain different of other object-recognition areas. She can see the face as good as anybody but she cant connect the face to the "person"(mother, brother etc).
i have this too not as severe as this women though mine is mild, i have to find another thing about them, like shoes or their coat or something to recognize them. And i usually say hi and see if they respond and then i can figure out if i know them or not. Even friends sometimes it takes awhile to recognize them Its pretty embarassing at school and work and when i just met somebody its near impossible for me to remember them. I totally get what you said about generic small talk! its a pain tho..
@rustymozzy Do peoples voices help you? Like if one guy has a particularly deep voice or one friend, despite his/her age still has a childish sounding voice, does that help you remember them?
When asked to pick out her mom from those photographs, why couldn't she tell from the backgrounds in the pictures?? They were all different, and she should remember where she was when she took the picture...
@RHIANNAKM It wouldn't matter because they were showing her random pictures. If they were showing her pictures of a particular group of people and she knew her picture was in there somewhere, the hair texture / style might have tipped her off that it was her. That picture could have literally been anyone and pictures from the neck up are the most difficult. There's no height, body type, or movement to use as clues. Hair can only help so much but you still to put it in context.
That is absolutely fascinating! I've never heard of this before. I'd bet there was a decison or a command like "everone looks the same" or "can't recognize anyone" or something simular connected to a moment of massive pain/injury and that blocks the ability to recognize the faces or simply makes them look the same in her mind. Find that moment, find the connection and it will most probably "unlock".
Okay, can people stop making this condition look like a total tragedy? Sure, it might be harder for me to recognize people without their usual style, voices and hair, but people usually have hair and clothes. Just because I can’t immediately recognize others or myself doesn’t mean I’m constantly suffering or don’t see faces.
Its so unimaginable to me... i really hate her look in the end, its kinda heartbreaking. You can see she's hopeless and left with no other option than to accept her faith. Really feel bad for her
Yes, if a persons face is unique, or it's general appearance, or even a very unique detail, i will recognize him/her. I do recognize emoticons (if i didn't i would not even know wheher your face was a face or not). You have to imagine this like some sort of insecurance about what you feel who that is...there are so many details for my brain - personality, voice, context...that most of the time there is only one option on who that is. Unless the person is a very unique one, i will first categ...
So would getting a small tattoo on your own face help things slightly? It's the psychical features, nose, eyes, mouth that can't be matched up but you got a distinctive tattoo that doesn't register as a facial feature then I imagine it would at least help you recognize your own face.
uh, how about no?? this condition isnt the living hell videos make it out to be, i can still usually tell that i’m looking at me and a tattoo wouldnt help anyway.
Hang on- the mother's pink dress was visible before the photo was uncovered completely. How come she didn't recognise the clothes and wall straight away?
I think the sadder part about this is the fact that her prosopagnosia was caused by an injury, so in her case she's lost something. I'm 4'9" so the way I can tell myself in a picture with other people is because I'm usually the shortest one and if that doesn't work I usually can use certain context and place myself from what I might have been wearing one day. However there was a wedding I was a bridesmaid in a few years back and all of use were wearing the same color dress
I may have lost someone who I love so much because of this impairment. I have a very high IQ and so does she. I pray she reads this and understands why I didn't know who she was. Half way home I did. Went back and she was gone. TBI did me a bad number. Hurts a lot.
Look up Bill Choisser. He wrote an online book about prosopagnosia and he too has a problem with interpreting what he hears. I asked to have a phone conversation with him once and he turned me down for that reason.
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Her face when she got told that's her on the picture... I can't even begin to imagine what life must be like for her.
literally made me want to cry, I can't even begin to imagine how difficult eveyday must be, and I hate watching this going through the emotions when they ask her "do you recognise this face" as if her answer is going to change
It goes beyond faces to things like cars, logically. Inability to recognize shape-relations.
wait a minute!
aren't you jesus? for christ's sake fix it.
This is just so sad.
Thumbs up if your psych teacher sent you here!
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Not a psych student, but I'm currently working on a series about mental illness!
Cognitive Science 001
im not but im really interested in psychology so i do my research lmao
psychobiology!
it's really sad when she said " i've lost everybody, like everybody is gone..."
also too crucial to let her know the face she couldn't recognize was herself...
My heart dropped the moment she realises it was her in the image.
I understand that it was necessary for the producers to put her through that to demonstrate the condition, but the more I watched the more I felt that they were just being cruel. Poor Woman to not be able to recognize you own face.
+Edward Mathenge I agree with you. You look at her face at the very end, and her eyes are so sad. It's almost like she realizes she is lost in the world.
I had a hard time sitting through this video, she was so obviously distressed and nothing useful was being unveiled through the repeated test. The message would have gotten through just as well if they stopped at the polaroids, so why prolong her suffering?
But actually it was helpful for me as a medical student .. I am studying now and I want to know how someone prosopagnosia will be like .. I hope all the best for her and to over come this struggle
@@ReginaldTheRooster why are u people so judgemental.. they did not intend to make her suffer.. even she probably agreed to do the test and experiment in the first place.. it was in her own consent to do so.. and i believe this experiment is also intended to raise awareness among common people about this cognitive disability.. so we may get enlightened and understand about how they feel, what they are facing that make them even unable to recognize their own face.. i believe it is intended so we may embrace and have deeper understanding on those poor people..
@@marsel4812 you're right. I think the difference maker here is whether they got her informed consent on what they'd be doing to her. Based on her reactions it doesn't seem like they did. Maybe she's a good actor, maybe they were intentionally vague with the information they gave her, maybe it was like most older psychology research and it was horribly unethical.
I have this problem since I was born. It bothers me a lot and drives me crazy. I can only recognize my parents BY VOICE. I feel anxious when going to crowded places because I wouldn't be able to recognize my company if we got separated. I have trouble making friends because I react like a stranger when they say hello. I get frustrated all the time and it makes me less inclined to acquaint new person. No one seems to understand my condition when I try to talk about it but I don't blame them. In order to compensate this, I have to remember one's voice, build, the way they dress. It doesn't always work out for me but It helps me get some friends that I had. It's hard for me to talk about this because I had given up explaining my condition long time ago.
aword3213 You should read the book "Holding Up the Universe" by Jennifer Niven - it's where I first found out about this condition and you may relate to it. it's about a teen going through the same things that you've just said xx have a nice day
i feel bad for you.
i can be friend will you
It makes you unique and that can be used as a positive. It's really interesting and shows the amazing complexities of the human brain. I'm very incapable of understanding and memorizing the difference between pronouncing a word as it is written when in fact it is pronounced differently. For example colonel or epitome. I am incapable of getting the proper way through my head and in learning new words and definitions in general. Since this doesn't impact other people really it isn't seen as a big deal compared to facial difficulties.
I have prosopagnosia and it is a terrible thing to experience . Some times in my life it was not so bad but it's killing me now. There's a movie that came out maybe 15 years ago give or take a few years , it was called "50 First Dates" That's what prosopagnosia is like. What has made it so bad for me is too many people lie and play games these days and don't listen. I need to be around honest intelligent people so I can get better because like I said it's killing me .
Goes to say how many things we take for granted :(
I like your profile pic
Nanoria Bates Thank-you :)
This is the most heartbreaking video I've seen in a long time.
It's a very common disorder frequently found in people who owe you money. Most people who borrowed money from me started to suffer from Prosopagnosia. This is often accompanied by Amnesia. I have decided not to lend anymore until they find a cure for this disorder.
Not making fun of any disorder here, but that comment was legit funny😂😂😂😂
So true!!! I agree with Sharon.
Lol.
Or maybe…. They did not want to pay and it’s all an act like the movie, “dumb and dumberer”. 🤷🏽♂️
it's crazy.. people think their lives are so bad, and then you run across stories like this.. it makes you appreciate what you have. God, help this woman get through life as happily as possible. She suffers from a great loss, but I know that you can make her strong through it.
I have prosopagnosia and it is a terrible thing to experience . Some times in my life it was not so bad but it's killing me now. There's a movie that came out maybe 15 years ago give or take a few years , it was called "50 First Dates" That's what prosopagnosia is like. What has made it so bad for me is too many people lie and play games these days and don't listen. I need to be around honest intelligent people so I can get better because like I said it's killing me .
Joyce Geissinger hi Joyce! I'm really sorry that you have to live with this condition. I can only imagine how hard it is every day. I'm praying for you that you do not give up hope for a better future.
I would encourage you to ask God why you have this. Expect an answer and He will give you one. Also if you read the Bible at all you will see Jesus healed people. He can do the same for you. I don't say all of this to be some crazy Bible thumper, but because He healed me of a different condition in my brain.
I hope and pray you are doing well and that you can find hope in Jesus because He seriously wants to help you. Please let Him. I love you and God bless xoxo
This is interesting and extremely sad at the same time. My heart goes out to her, although the clip looks really old, she's probably in her 70s or 80s now.
As I watch this video on Prosopagnosia I understand how phenomenal and complex the brain is
I'm studying cognitieve psychology right now. Face recognition depends on complex relationships created by the face's overall configuration - the spacing of the eyes realtive to the length of of the nose, the height of the forehead relative to the width of the face, and so forth. People who suffer form prosopagnosia generally have normal vision. They can gerenerally tell you whether a face is a man's or a woman's, and whether it belongs to someone young or old. But they cannot recognize those individual features. They cannot recognize their own parents or children, whether from photographs or 'live'. They even cannot recognize themselves, sometimes they're looking in the mirror at some stranger when, in truth, they're looking at themselves. This is caused by brain damage of a specific area responsible for recogninzing faces: the fusiform face area. When I read and see this I am so thankfull I don't have this brain disorder! How many things we indeed take for granted! I hope she gets understanding and much love from people in her surroundings, because this I think is so hard for her to have.
This is pretty accurate, I’ve had it since birth so I don’t really see having prosopagnosia as anything but normal. But it’s not that I can’t see faces it’s just that once I look away from someone I have no idea what they look like. What sucks the most about having it is that all the conversations I have with people just blur together because I can’t remember which person told me what.
The more i learn about the way people work and the challenges many have the more i am open and understanding towards others. My wish is that nobody should feel bad about how they function or dysfunction. I know the challenges that they face and being afraid to socialise shoud not be one of them i wish.
That ending was heartbreaking
Thank you. This video helped me with a patient of mine who has this disorder. Not to this extreme but, this video helps explain to her the situation. My blessing to you.
Cruel reporter, isn't she? "Yeah, here's a reminder that you can't recognize your mother or even yourself!"
u have to accept your reality and then u can be at peace
These videos are done for educational/research purposes with full conscent of the patient.
It's hard to wrap my mind around that....
I'm really curious as to what exactly she's seeing. Is she incapable of distinguishing facial details and only see a blurry mass, or can she just plain not associate a face with anything?
I think it might be a little similar to distinguishing animal faces.
I think that can give you an idea of how it's like, even though you're probably still better at distinguishing animal faces than she is with human faces.
SulfurNeon
"normal people"
+SulfurNeon "normal people" don't tend to think all of any race looks alike smh I get where you were going with that, but come on
The reason she can't recognize faces is that her temporal lobe has been damaged. Often times we take our unconscious processes for granted because we don't know what life would be like without them. For this woman, she is completely unable to recognize anybody. Every person she sees is a complete stranger--no matter who they are, and the sight of their faces doesn't stir up any form of recognition or memory.
she is seeing strangers.It happens when the fusiform gyrus in both sides of your brain is damaged.
I can't even wrap my head around what this would look like for her, it's so crazy
doing this for me class...glad I watched this. Makes me want to do deeper research because it's sad how it impacts people's lives. Never knew.
I believe I have this disorder, though not nearly to this extent. The intensity to which people have it is a spectrum, with this woman being at the high end and me probably at the low end. For me, a lot of people look similar, which makes it kinda difficult, but not impossible to get to know a person's face. It just takes time to memorize faces.
Short story: Just the other day, my hairdresser I've been going to for years said "hello" to me at an autumn/fall party and I looked hard at her and could not for the life of me figure out who she was. In my head, she looked like 1000 other women I have seen (granted, she was wearing glasses and I didn't expect her to be there, so that also threw me off). I said "who are you?" and her mouth dropped... lol. But I instantly recognized her when she told me who she was, so I told her I'd see her in a few weeks for a haircut :)
I have the same condition as you😢 and people think I'm being rude by not minding them after I've communicated with them once before. It sucks
this makes me wanna cry, im so grateful that i dont have to deal with something so lonely and confusing
Shouldn’t put all your eggs in that basket.
It isn’t like she absolutely cannot tell people apart. Voice, mannerisms, dressing style, body types, hair color/style, ethnicity (yes) etc. all go into forming the person. It isn’t like everyone is an indistinguishable automaton.
There’s so much other material to go off of that face blind people (at least the mild cases) can go years without realizing the issue. Difficulties are chalked up to “inattentiveness”, because that’s the pseudo-moral interpretation of social-addicts. A more relevant challenge is people demand you know them by their face alone and might retaliate if you fail to do so.
Holding Up The Universe brought me here
sameee
me too
samee
Omg same!
Same
I'm doing a Dramatic Interpretation about a mother whose son has prosopagnosia and my teacher recommended watching this. Now I get why
the kdrama "The secret life of my secretary "brought me here.
Such a brave women ❤️thank you for serving in the fire department
I see... I can grasp it a little better now. I'm very grateful you cared to explain.. thank you very much :)
I have prosopagnosia and it is a terrible thing to experience . Some times in my life it was not so bad but it's killing me now. There's a movie that came out maybe 15 years ago give or take a few years , it was called "50 First Dates" That's what prosopagnosia is like. What has made it so bad for me is too many people lie and play games these days and don't listen. I need to be around honest intelligent people so I can get better because like I said it's killing me .
Can you please tell us the name of the documentary this clip is from?
My own curiosity brought me here after watching drama
omg same
I've got the same illness - the hardest thing is that people often thought I was just ignorant or just didn't care about them - that was before I had the diagnosis. Now a lot of my rural ppl still think that way, but at least I know why I can't recognize them
This is very sad. I have bad eye sight, even with glasses, so I can't recognize faces until they are like 3 feet away from me, so anyone I cross in the street further than that also think I'm avoiding them on purpose, even if they are someone I love or someone I'd be delighted to bump into.
The expression she has when she's told that's her in the picture is how I feel every day looking into a mirror...
I know it's me but I don't recognize me...
3:16 that’s just heartbreaking.
Ahh I think I understand that! Yes I agree with there being more passive information. Thank you very much C:
My face recognition is weird and pretty terrible. I can differentiate two faces when shown both but then I think that a great many of faces are very similar to the point where I would mix my friend's face with a stranger's face. I can tell if I like a face or not though.
When I look at my own face - I almost see a blank space. I tried many times to describe my own face and categorize it but can only remark on the *most* obvious details.
She seems very unhappy and uncomfortable in the video, I feel very sad for her. I just hope she is doing fine now.
The last one was shocking...
This is so sad. I hope they found a way to cure this!
they havent found a way to cure it yet,but scientists are working on it.
My own curiosity brought me here.
Oh my gosh, this is so sad
God bless her 😭
That's heartbreaking
Interesting to read what you say about also not being able to properly interpret what they hear . I have this problem and mild Prosopagnosia
The end is so damn sad....
A good way around faceblindness is voice recognition. Unfortunately for some with prosopagnosia they also have another problem that prevents them from properly interpreting what they hear. That is not the case with me. My ears are my best friend, they are what allow me to hide my faceblindness so well.
@luvav7x That's a good point, I never thought of that.
Maybe she has difficulty recognising other details too?
I believe I may have some form of this, I can remember the faces of those I see a lot but not those I don’t
@IrishNickO what are they actually perceiving when they see a face?
It's 2020, this video shouldn't exist anymore.
Surely she could have recognised her mother by the number on her bracelet and what doors she is able to open?
@twixiechick I wasn't offended by your comment at all. I'm just letting you know that it's only lonely if you let it be. You take what you get in life and do with it what you can. I can't pick my own picture out of a family album, but I'm not sad about it. I'm a very happy person.
I guess its a fluid border between prosapognosia and bad face recognition. I am so used to it that in movies and real life I have so many often subconscious ways to tell people apart that many times it doesn't even seem like I hab a problem. E.g. I can tell from the way a character behaves if he's a main character or not. But if there is no context at all (which rarely happens in movies) and different/not remembered voice, clothes etc. I can forget very, very long known people :-)
As someone who has a tough time with faces, the only picture that stood out as incorrect was the one on the right. The grey hair gave it away. I guessed the correct picture--however, for the exact same reason she did. The shirt.
I also didn't guess the second slide correctly--I guessed it was her mother, again.
I don't recognize people outside the context they "belong to". I cannot picture faces as a whole (also family members)but only some details, which are the cues I use to recognize people, for example :scars, moles, make up style, skin tone. I cannot picture facial features (for example eyes or nose) but I can describe them using words. For example I can remember that a person I know has "big round eyes" but I cannot picture the eyes and they shape in my mind. Voice recognition helps me a lot.
The secret life of my Secretary brought me here after being curious if this case is really legit
@IrishNickO Does that mean that she also lost the ability to recognize faces from before her accident.
Like memories of her parents?
I have this too, I guess I'm lucky I was born with it because I'm used to it.
I have prosopagnosia and I easily recognize my mom because of her hair, eyecolor, etc. And most of all voice. Actually I use those things to recognize most of people I need. Bit if you wear a wig I may not recognize you lol
@Preacher898 nope temporal lobe. if it was parietal lobe then she would probably have trouble with touch
Face recognition is handled by a specific area of the brain different of other object-recognition areas. She can see the face as good as anybody but she cant connect the face to the "person"(mother, brother etc).
i have this too not as severe as this women though mine is mild, i have to find another thing about them, like shoes or their coat or something to recognize them. And i usually say hi and see if they respond and then i can figure out if i know them or not. Even friends sometimes it takes awhile to recognize them Its pretty embarassing at school and work and when i just met somebody its near impossible for me to remember them. I totally get what you said about generic small talk! its a pain tho..
why am i crying in the club right now
all i could think whilst watching this was that following what's going on in Game of Thrones would be impossible with this condition
@rustymozzy Do peoples voices help you? Like if one guy has a particularly deep voice or one friend, despite his/her age still has a childish sounding voice, does that help you remember them?
@GydoKamst Haha me too. I was so curious about it when playing that I looked it up
Dr. P. is "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" from one of the case histories in Sacks' book of the same name.
@ChaosN yes, she can.
@Gik1618 Hmm, maybe so.. Or maybe she didn't think to look at them
Really sad.
Very sad. But this is much like me. Nice to know however that I am not alone.
devastating... fingers are crossed for some new technologies.
When asked to pick out her mom from those photographs, why couldn't she tell from the backgrounds in the pictures?? They were all different, and she should remember where she was when she took the picture...
@RHIANNAKM It wouldn't matter because they were showing her random pictures. If they were showing her pictures of a particular group of people and she knew her picture was in there somewhere, the hair texture / style might have tipped her off that it was her. That picture could have literally been anyone and pictures from the neck up are the most difficult. There's no height, body type, or movement to use as clues. Hair can only help so much but you still to put it in context.
"the Girl who sees scents" tv series brought me here :)
its Korean drama
Mysterious World me too
Inside beauty brought me here.. the male lead has the condition
That is absolutely fascinating! I've never heard of this before. I'd bet there was a decison or a command like "everone looks the same" or "can't recognize anyone" or something simular connected to a moment of massive pain/injury and that blocks the ability to recognize the faces or simply makes them look the same in her mind. Find that moment, find the connection and it will most probably "unlock".
Interesting and also sad, so does it mean she visualizes faces in a different way or just bad with names. ?
she was most disappointed to learn that was indeed her
the same disappointment my dad and I share when we both see me,
oh! thats so sad!
Oh wow that'd be so scary to know that you have that and not be able to do anything about it
i was just thinking that while reading the Wikipedia page about the condition
Okay, can people stop making this condition look like a total tragedy? Sure, it might be harder for me to recognize people without their usual style, voices and hair, but people usually have hair and clothes. Just because I can’t immediately recognize others or myself doesn’t mean I’m constantly suffering or don’t see faces.
Its so unimaginable to me... i really hate her look in the end, its kinda heartbreaking. You can see she's hopeless and left with no other option than to accept her faith. Really feel bad for her
Yes, if a persons face is unique, or it's general appearance, or even a very unique detail, i will recognize him/her. I do recognize emoticons (if i didn't i would not even know wheher your face was a face or not).
You have to imagine this like some sort of insecurance about what you feel who that is...there are so many details for my brain - personality, voice, context...that most of the time there is only one option on who that is. Unless the person is a very unique one, i will first categ...
So they can’t even recognize based off the hair colour? This is really sad.
So would getting a small tattoo on your own face help things slightly? It's the psychical features, nose, eyes, mouth that can't be matched up but you got a distinctive tattoo that doesn't register as a facial feature then I imagine it would at least help you recognize your own face.
It would be if you could forcibly tattoo everyone in the world.
uh, how about no?? this condition isnt the living hell videos make it out to be, i can still usually tell that i’m looking at me and a tattoo wouldnt help anyway.
she seems so sad. poor lady
Me too. I think i low prosopagnosia. I can't remember face is not have something special in face. An if i meet someone. Is blank for one second.
John D thank you for the info😀
if people with this disorder can still recognize different shirt, can't they just focus on specific parts of the face? like eyebrow or the nose?
@mastermalone Oops I meant limo, not cab.
I'm here because I read the book " Holding Up The Universe" by Jennifer Niven
Holding up the universe
The kdrama handsome guy and Jung Eum brought me here 🙂
Hang on- the mother's pink dress was visible before the photo was uncovered completely. How come she didn't recognise the clothes and wall straight away?
She couldn't see the shirt with the cover?
Even I had some problems with the faces in this video. And reading the comments I am not alone here.
I think the sadder part about this is the fact that her prosopagnosia was caused by an injury, so in her case she's lost something. I'm 4'9" so the way I can tell myself in a picture with other people is because I'm usually the shortest one and if that doesn't work I usually can use certain context and place myself from what I might have been wearing one day. However there was a wedding I was a bridesmaid in a few years back and all of use were wearing the same color dress
so you have the condition? So interesting, I'm a med student and learning about it.
I may have lost someone who I love so much because of this impairment. I have a very high IQ and so does she. I pray she reads this and understands why I didn't know who she was. Half way home I did. Went back and she was gone. TBI did me a bad number. Hurts a lot.
Right one Fusiform Gyrus
Look up Bill Choisser. He wrote an online book about prosopagnosia and he too has a problem with interpreting what he hears. I asked to have a phone conversation with him once and he turned me down for that reason.