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Problem with names and faces

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I googled this and could find anything exactly like my condition. I have problems with recognizing faces, visualizing faces and relating names to faces. I could be in a class with someone all year, and if they get a haircut I wouldn't know who it is. With people close to me I can recognize them, regardless whether they change anything. Visualizing faces is far worse. ANY person I try to visualize comes out blank, blurred or distorted. This includes friends and family. If its someone I don't know well I can never visualize them, I have to focus hard to picture friends or family. Sometimes I can be in the same room as one of my friends, and have looked at him like 2 seconds earlier and I cant properly visualize him. A picture of my friends however, I can always remember. Because I cant remember faces I cannot relate names to people (with exception of friends and family). I cannot remember actors either. If I'm reading a book however, I can picture settings and characters, and I can also remember them. If I make up someone in my imagination I can remember name and face usually. In my dreams friends and family are remembered vividly, imaginary main characters are vivid, everyone else is faceless. Does anyone know what this is called? also preferably how to treat it, but all I realy care about is what this is.

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  1. I have a family member with a similar problem and I have seen a TV documentary about this type of condition. It is called Prosopagnosia and it can result from a brain injury or you can be born with it. There is quite a lot of information available online about it.

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