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?

  • Pinkmongoose@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m face blind- I just don’t picture faces. I either find something distinct about a character and use that or make something up myself. “This character has curly blond hair.” “I’m going to assume this guy is wearing fancy red boots.” It doesn’t really matter. A lot of time I just don’t picture anyone distinct at all.