Prosopagnosia (face blindness)

[cares677]

To anyone who has been diagnosed with, or think they may have, prosopagnosia (more commonly known as face blindness), I have a couple questions:
Do you frequently look at a celebrity, and see similarities between their faces, and people you know personally?
Also, have any of you struggled, when attempting to create a Bitmoji, Memoji, or other avatar? For instance, you may be asked to choose between such physical characteristics as shape of head, chin, cheeks, nose, ears, or eyes, but not know which are correct?
I have not been diagnosed, but think I could potentially have prosopagnosia. If I am correct, I don't believe I have what is considered to be a severe form. (To my understanding, there are two degrees of severity.)

[bronte448]

I have driven my mother bonkers with my confusing the members of BTS with each other. It's a shame because I'm a big fan of BTS.

[DiegoPalacios]

@bronte448 i don't have Prosopagnosia and they all look the same to me

the similar haircuts and clothings don't help too much

[NickRowler]

I don't have complete face blindness but I do I trouble with some faces. My main issue is that people tend to look the same to me and I often have a hard time telling some actors apart or I do not recognize people in heavy makeup. I tend to have an easier time with people/celebrities with more unique features or I focus on other things like people's hair or skin color.

A good example is the boys from Stranger Things. I can tell who Lucas and Dustin is easily but I struggle with Mike and Will. They look like identical twins to me.

[Awesomeness_Studios]

I literally have no idea whether or not I have face blindness but I'll try to answer this.

When it comes to people I know personally, I can pin point them out really well. It's just people who I don't really care much about that are tough for me to memorize. This is especially true in movies and shows with mostly white cast members who have the same few hair styles and hair colors. If you have the same skin, hair color, and hair style as someone else and I don't know either of you very well, I will probably mix you two up (conveniently, I'll likely be aware if I don't recognize you so well and will probably be too embarrassed to even try to say your name, so you'll probably never know I don't remember who you are after all.)

I've never found myself to struggle with making avatars. I'm probably pretty good at it, though I haven't tried in a while.

I think for me, as long as I focus enough for a long enough time, I can notice the details in people and not mix them up. I'm pretty much required to recognize faces and names for my current job, so that's kinda freaked me out into remembering who everyone is. I just need the drive.

[konori]

With my face blindness, I need to see a person enough times to be able to recognise them out of context. (That could take about a month or two on a daily basis.)

In the case of celebrities, I came to know Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, and I could not recognise them when they were acting in other movies. (Now I think I can recognise Robert Downey Jr outside of Marvel movies, but I still can't recognise Hugh Jackman because I've not seen his face enough.)

Similar to NickRowler's case, there are instances where I just can't tell two people apart in a group (both for movies/shows and in real life), and it'll take me a month or two to be able to finally tell them apart. This also happens with comics/anime and it's a bit of an inconvenience.

As for making avatars of people, of course I'm going to need a reference if it's someone I'm not familiar with, but if it's someone whose face I can picture with my eyes closed, then I should be able to create an avatar of them.

[Noorie]

Don't know if I have it, but it's often hard for me to tell characters in movies apart if they have similar hair and sometimes hard to recognize people I know when not in the context I normally see them, or think I know someone when in reality it's a different person. But I think, I just remember simplified faces, like in cartoons, there are just main characteristics and no details.
About celebrities... Someone has dark hair and a beard? Oh, he's so similar to my dad! Someone has square face and brown straight hair? That's my mum!
But with making avatars it's always easy, because I remember faces already simplified

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