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• • Difficulty recognizing people outside familiar settings
  • Trouble following movie or television characters
  • Anxiety during social situations

• Fear of unintentionally offending others
• Dependence on non-facial details for identification

Because facial recognition plays such an important role in human interaction, the condition can sometimes become emotionally exhausting.

What Causes Face Blindness?

Experts say prosopagnosia can appear in two primary forms:

• Congenital prosopagnosia, present from birth or early childhood
• Acquired prosopagnosia, which develops after injury or neurological illness

Acquired cases may result from: