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Tips for reading with facial blindness? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by thottistic@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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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?

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[–] Sea-Operation7215@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have aphantasia so I don’t picture anything when I read ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] glitchywitch@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Same! It's so wild to me to imagine that most people see pictures in their heads when they read. Like, I would love to know what that's like. It just sounds like magic to me, haha.

[–] lj_86@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Same here! I just found out a few months ago that other people could visualize things in their head. I am often looking at cover pictures because I just can't visualize what someone looks like. Now that I know other people can see full pictures in their head and hear people's voices I feel a little like I've been missing out.