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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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[–] quats5@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I can only mentally picture simple objects and colors; I don’t really “see” anything while reading. Instead, I “feel” and get flashes of impressions. It’s a bit like being in the brain of the main character without access to the eyes.

Example: winter night forest scene is an impression of dark / crunchy snow underfoot / crisp winter pine smell / flashes of moonlight through trees + emotion of scene (determination? Romantic? Fear of being followed?)