My brain’s opinion is that an accurate diagnosis as early in
life as possible is important.
This can form the basis for teaching people about face blindness and making a
game of helping them recognize
specific facial features rather than just the overall composite, and
other ways of recognition. Certainly, how to talk about it in a neutral and
unashamed manner. Every brain has some challenge.
Knowing this has been of great value to me several
times when a person I thought would recognize me did not. It would have been
easy to do a JOT behavior: jump to conclusions that were way out in left field,
overreact and possibly burn a relationship bridge, and take it personally. AAA
replacement behaviors, and knowing a bit about prosopagnosia, allowed me to ask
questions, act calmly while I processed the information, and reframe the
incident so I did not take it personally.
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