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

Everything I read I imagine neck down. I could tell a police sketch artist everything about a person from color of shoelaces to type of collar on their shirt, but nothing of their face. After 5 years together I couldn't describe my partners face from memory.

Reading I notice I see what's happening in my head from over the characters shoulder a lot. Reading Kitchen Confidential and I feel like I'm following Bourdain and watching him live from 5 ft behind