I have partial facial blindness which makes it hard to picture faces that aren’t super familiar and I can’t create new faces in my head. I end up picturing faces of people I know and celebrities.
It becomes frustrating when I’m reading as the faces morph constantly into my head. I constantly stop to get the faces right. Sydney Sweeney ended up as 2 characters when I read “Bunny” lol. I also get a biased view of the characters this way. It makes it really hard to enjoy reading nowadays. Any suggestions? Different strategies for picturing or reading without picturing?
It’s not really a big deal, just don’t picture faces if doing so annoys you…
Heaps of people, including me, find it difficult to visualise anything at all, best I get is a very vague and fuzzy idea of something - and yet I manage to absolutely love reading books, as I have done for the last 45 years of my life. The name identifies a person, you don’t need to picture exactly what they look like as well to understand what’s happening in the book.