Understanding Prosopagnosia

5. Hallmark Symptoms

Symptoms of this condition range from mild to severe. Aside from the inherent inability to recognize faces, people with face blindness consistently avoid using people's names and may not introduce themselves to anyone or two people to each other. They may become lost in large crowds. When meeting someone who appears to know them, people with prosopagnosia often ask generic questions to help them identify the person to whom they are speaking. The necessary adjustments such people must make sometimes lead others to assume they have other developmental disorders or disabilities.