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The Advantages of Dating a Prosopagnosiac

One of the more interesting side effects of the stroke I had about 18 months ago - was that I lost the ability to recognise people’s faces.

Bruce Fielding
Oct 24, 2017
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One of the more interesting side effects of the stroke I had about 18 months ago - was that I lost the ability to recognise people’s faces.

It’s called Prosopagnosia and it’s caused by damage to the fusiform gyrus on the right hand side of the brain. It’s not that I can’t physically see people’s faces, it’s just that they don’t mean anything to me or rin…

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