Faceblindness - Prosopagnosia

[brad11003]

also, "faces in the crowd" movie brought me here

[brad11003]

she looks like Olivia Wilde

[danieldaring]

I knew morris was a fucking jew-god their ugly

[sableandbenzene]

I'm moderately faceblind and I usually recognize people by their voice. I am skilled with drawing so over the years I've learned to recognize people by the detail of their nose, eyes, ears... and I usually categorize my classmates with famous people who look similar.

[deadpoetoftheyear]

I have mild prosopagnosia. There are some people I would never confuse, I easily confuse a brunette with a blonde, but I would not confuse a child with an adult. And never ever would I confuse a woman and a man. I wonder in cases of severe prosopagnosia, if they put 2 people side by side of which one was male and the other female, does anyone ever get them wrong? I actually have confused a white guy with a black guy which might seem weird, but that was in a movie, not in real life.

[mastermalone]

I found a test on test my brain and scored less than 1%. My sister and mother don't have this problem at all. My dad seems to have a hard time telling people apart when he watches movies. I don't know if that means he has it to a mild degree. I'm not sure.

[mastermalone]

On the famous people's test I scored 23%, I couldn't find the other test. But I'm faceblind so this result isn't shocking to me.

[Texemosis]

dude who the hell thumb downs this stuff? Propagnoisa is one of the most fascinating discoveries.

[antiHUMANDesigns]

97% unfamiliar faces. I thought I was below average.

[Mariet31]

I got 67% : /

[phatmanqwerty]

96% for unfamilar faces

[Volcanic9]

%100 on the test, that's how artists do it bitches

[PrimoKarim]

Hell even I got the two ladies mixed up and got a 71/72 on the stranger face recognition test.

[isabeljolie]

96% correct ! yupi!

[iheartunibrows]

this is interesting and i cant imagine how terrible life must be for people who have it. Like i would not be able to handle it if i had it

[Axl207]

@iheartunibrows i have it and its definitely a problem but like most things in life you get used to it and develop strategies to work around it. For eg i can identify almost anyone ive met just once by their voice if i meet them again

[broncofan92slay]

73% correct

is this almost prosopagnosic?

[Volcanic9]

@broncofan92slay no, just stupid

[broncofan92slay]

@Volcanic9 thank god

[amylNRG]

I'm prosopagnosic, and just want to say that I loathe the term "face-blind". I'm not blind to faces, I just can't tell them apart. Please could we stop using this term: it was invented by well-meaning people who aren't themselves prosopagnosic, by analogy with dyslexia being known as "word-blindness". Let's say "prosopagnosic", not "face-blind".

[M2nson]

@amylNRG loser

[fishkybuns]

@amylNRG It's fucking layman's terms. If you have CANCER you say "I have cancer". Not "I have a malignant neoplasm". Because then no one would know what the fuck you were talking about. People need to stop being so touchy. Jesus christ.

[jamjamboree]

wow that guy has adapted really well

[chailizard]

I'm faceblind. It's funny.

[Fers1296]

My dad has this disease since an accident he had playing football like a year ago. He doesnt recognise any face.

[rsasian]

I love you baby, and no, I can not recobnise you with your face bout I do in with the heart.

[moe354sa]

i recognize faces faster than most people,, it is extremely extremely helpful and to not be able to recognize a persons face could put you at an extreme disadvantage.. the best que is the gape between teh eyes.

[Senwyn1]

I got 33%. But I knew I had prosopagnosia. I actually couldn't tell the difference between the two Hilaries until she spoke. Once she spoke, I recognised her voice so I knew it was her.

[ytcarol]

I got 97% on normal face recognition (70 out of 72) and 90% on famous faces (27 out of 30). I couldn't remember Captain Picard's last name!! (Patrick Stewart), couldn't identify Tony Blair or Rowan Atkinson. Interesting test - take it!

[zakedestro]

Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 64.

In other words, you got 89% correct.

yayyyy. i tried to contribute a personality to them (like 1 looked like billy corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins, and another one looked like an (imaginary) tougher brother of bill). some of them were a lil fatter, so made them 'hungry', and so on.

[amidreamingitisbliss]

i got a 94%

[DrunkAtheist]

Ha ha I got 100 % for both tests.

[jaideepster]

i got 22%

[Shennir]

I'm faceblind, I know it allready.. :P I just have to deal with it.. :P

[lovelylostlady]

i got 78%

[7LucidDreamZ]

Woah--that's really interesting.

I've always been MUCH better at faces than names.

I just did one of the tests and, out of 72 faces, I correctly identified 68 (94% correct)

I'd recommend trying it.

[lovelylostlady]

i couldn't find the quiz ware on the site was it

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[SonicMountain]

Google Cambridge Face Memory Test.

I got 100 % on the famous faces, and 96 % on the Cambridge test.

[vincechan]

Hilary Doyle rocks!