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		JohnBooty on April 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind It's not uncommon, I don't think. A lot of people have trouble with faces (in various ways, and to various extents) despite having otherwise "normal" visual processing and memory.

patrickburke on April 23, 2016 [–]

60 mins did an episode on face blindness, and apparently the psychologist Oliver Sacks couldn't even recognize himself in the mirror.

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