Have you ever had trouble identifying someone by their face? Does it occur frequently enough to be annoying? Ushna Shah experiences it to such an extent that she disclosed on social media that she had prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, a condition that impairs one’s capacity to identify faces.
Face blindness is “a mystifying condition that can trick us into believing we recognise people we’ve never met or make us fail to recognise those we have,” according to Harvard Medical School. According to a recent study that was published in Cortex, up to one in 33 persons (or 3.08%) may fit the description of prosopagnosia.
