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 picture the books I’m reading very vividly, but oddly I don’t really picture faces.
Instead, I usually make micro expressions with my own face, so I “act out” what the characters are doing with their faces. This helps me “picture“ what they’re expressions look like but without picturing their faces.