I Thought I Was Really Bad At Recognizing People. Then I Discovered I'm Face Blind.
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One time, "I asked about the identity of someone in a group photo my roommate had posted on Facebook, only to find out the mysterious stranger was me."
For the past 15 months, most people have been face blind. With face masks mandatory across much of the world due to COVID-19, facial recognition ― one of the most basic elements of human interaction ― has been stripped from public spaces. It’s a skill that most people take for granted. It develops in babies before they even learn how to sit upright, and now, suddenly, we’re all expected to get by without it. Some have worked around this, counting on clues and cues based on people’s postures, hair, or the arch of someone’s eyebrows to reveal who is who, but awkwardness and uncertainty are inevitable.
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