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?
I don’t really have facial blindness, I’m pretty good at picturing faces of people I know and identifying people but it’s SO MUCH WORK to come up with a specific face for a character. I just don’t bother usually. They kind of have a face, nose and eyes and whatnot very little specifics I just don’t focus on/think about it. If I NEED a face for something (like they point out a facial detail or expression) then I imagine a face but otherwise it’s like a soft focus with the face not really visible/focused on/almost out of frame?