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Prosopagnosia - Why YOU Cannot Recognise Faces (Autism) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So what is prosopagnosia? Are you head of faced blindness?
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  All that's coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan, I have Autism
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  Guys, welcome back. What is going on?
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  Different thinkers. The aspy world is a place where
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  we think differently daily. What's up different?
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  Think of Pham. I am doing a video on
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  prosopagnosia. Now this is an interesting video
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  because I have known about prosopagnosia for a long time,
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  but I didn't know the full kind of terminology or the name for
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  it. Which is quite interesting
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  because prosopagnosia is also known as face blindness.
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  Now face blindness is when you cannot recognize somebody else's
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  face or you can't recognize faces on people.
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  And so autism being such a complex condition as it is,
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  autistic people sometimes have issues recognizing people's
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  faces or recognizing even their family members faces.
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  Now I have this issue as well, which is really interesting.
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  So when I when I meet people, I listen to their voice and look
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  at their shoes, and that is how I identify the person in the
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  future because I have an issue with looking at people's eyes
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  like most people in the autism spectrum.
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  And because of that, if you're not looking someone in the eyes,
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  you're not really looking at their face.
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  And if you're not looking at a face, how on earth are you going
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  to recognize them? Again and again and again?
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  But prosopagnosia actually is a condition where the
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  prosopagnosia is a condition where the actual communication
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  part of seeing somebody's face is almost missing, so that the
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  face becomes kind of unrecognizable completely.
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  And this is also a condition that can be diagnosed with other
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  conditions like Down syndrome or other kind of learning
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  difficulties, right? So prostopagnosia is
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  independently diagnosed but actually comes as part of almost
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  like an autism bolt on kind of part of, you know, an autism
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  spectrum disorder, although I've never heard it being diagnosed.
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  Prostopagnosia, I just hear is like face blindness in autism.
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  Now, lots of autistic people have this issue, but some
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  autistic people don't have this issue.
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  It's not something that is given.
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  It's not something that, like every single autistic person has
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  face blindness. That's not what it is.
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  But it can occur in autistic people.
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  I would say it's like 5050. Most of the people I know who
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  are on the spectrum actually have the same issue and not
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  recognizing people's faces as well.
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  And you know, I do all the time. I don't even recognize my own
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  family members sometimes. And they could like, you know,
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  walk past me in the street unless I hear them.
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  And again, you've got to think about zoning out when an
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  autistic person is in a situation or scenario or they're
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  thinking about that situation. If somebody know, walks past
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  them because they're not part of that situation, they ain't going
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  to know they're not going to. They're not going to be like, Oh
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  yeah, yeah, that's blah, blah, blah.
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  Because, you know, you're focusing on the task at hand,
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  not focusing on the what's going on, what else is going on?
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  And can I spot anybody? Do I know anybody's faces?
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  But this does leave for some really difficult situations.
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  Like, I remember I was sitting down listen to a talk by Doctor
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  Luke Burden when we were doing keynote talks in in an autism
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  conference. And he was saying that he had a
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  girlfriend once and he went around to a house to call, you
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  know, just to call for us if she was in to hang out and when
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  they're in university. And so this girl answered the
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  door, He asked for his girlfriend and his girlfriend
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  was like, what are you talking about?
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  It's me. Like she answered the door and
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  he didn't recognize her. Because face blindness doesn't
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  doesn't bow easy, You know, it's not it's not something that you
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  can really deal with. And especially if you've not met
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  somebody that often and you haven't really gotten used to
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  their their, their mannerisms and just being around them by by
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  knowing their voice. And that the way they talk,
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  which is basically my main way, I can hear people's voices and
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  identify them. It's just kind of like how I
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  identify actors. I can't just look at a movie and
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  say like, oh, that's that guy from the thing I have to like,
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  listen, I go, Oh yeah, yeah, The voice is the actor from this
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  thing. And that's how I recognize all
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  the all actors that I know from movies.
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  I just recognize them by voice. So it's quite a difficult
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  experience, actually. It's quite an interesting one.
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  But it does cause issues, you know, not knowing when you know,
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  you meet somebody who they are and you've met them 100 times.
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  It's really, really difficult. But it's part and parcel of
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  prostopagnosia and sometimes autism as well.
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  Guys, I'd love to know what's your take on it?
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  Do you have face blindness? Do you have issues like this?
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  Pop it in a comment down below. I read every single ones.
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  That would be super, super awesome.
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  Also, guys, if you thought this video was awesome and it can
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  thumbs up and I'll see you in the next one.
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  Guys, peace.