theforestcat:

I have prosopagnosia, which means “face blindness”. I have had it since birth, and I think it accounts for some of my neuroticism. When I was little, I was often scared that I’d accidentally go home with the wrong parents. Over my lifetime, I’ve learned to identify people in other ways, so it almost comes as naturally to me as someone without facial processing difficulties. I still make mistakes and people get frustrated with me quite often. I’ve also begun to recognize the body language of someone who recognizes me, although I’ve messed that up when someone has just been “checking me out”, which has lead those people to believe that the attraction was mutual… oops. Luckily the bus usually comes in time. xD

However, with movies, I often have difficulty following the plot because I cannot tell the difference between many actors, even if they are of different ages or ethnicities. (It helps a lot if they have different hairstyles.) This is why I prefer cartoons, although I have the same problem with a lot of anime where the characters look similar. I think I would enjoy anime a lot more if I did not have this mental deficit.

Although I haven’t seen this movie, the two men on the left would look identical to me, and I probably would not enjoy this movie due to that.

The first one from the left has brown hair (what’s left of it) and the second one has silver hair (ditto). God help you if they ever wear hoods, though. (And having to rely on a single trait like that would likely make it harder. You’re always having to do “Okay, so it was the brown one that did x and the silver one that did y…I think”.)

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