What is an example of prosopagnosia? How do I know if I have prosopagnosia?

Prosopagnosia, commonly called face blindness, is simply a condition where one is unable  to accurately remember faces.

Some may be unaware they have the condition, instead believing they have a “bad memory for faces”.

But prosopagnosia is entirely unrelated to intelligence or broader memory ability.

How do I know if I have prosopagnosia? As mentioned earlier, prosopagnosia in itself is the inability to properly remember faces so the basic way you can know you have prosopagnosia is when you are unable to recognize persons by their faces.

This difficulty with facial recognition can manifest in a number of ways including; poor recognition of familiar individuals in person or in photographs and an inability to describe faces.

What is an example of prosopagnosia? These are examples of happenings if one has prosopagnosia;

1. Frequently failing to recognize familiar people when you meet the unexpectedly.
2. Becoming particularly clingy in public places.
3. When one is socially withdrawn at school and has difficulty making friends (this may be in contrast to more confident behavior at home, when recognition is not an issue).
4. Finding it difficult to follow the plots of films or TV shows.