Brad Pitt 58 year old Oscar award winner has come out from the closet to talk about his everyday struggle with his “Face Blindness ” Neurological disorder.
According to the actor in his interview with GQ, he struggles everyday with social interaction and the shame that comes with having to deal with the condition.
Pitt explained that, although the diagnosis of the disorder hasn’t been official, , he has been experiencing associated symptom such as extreme difficulty recognizing people’s faces which he said has led others to think otherwise that he’s self-absorbed and making up the condition.
“Nobody believes me!” he told the outlet for his August cover story, adding that he’d like to meet and speak to another person with the condition.
The actor in a previous interview with Esquire revealed that he’s often dubbed as “egotistical” and “conceited” for his inability to remember people. “That’s why I stay at home,” he said .
He admitted “So many people hate me because they think I’m disrespecting them,” “You get this thing, like, ‘You’re being egotistical. You’re being conceited.’ But it’s a mystery to me, man. I can’t grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view.”
He also disclosed how he once tried to nicely ask people to remind him where they’d met, but “people were more offended.”
“You meet so many damned people,” he added. “And then you meet ’em again.”
People with the Neurological disorder – prosopagnosia, or face blindness, are known to avoid social interactions and can easily develop social anxiety disorder.
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According to the National Health Service UK, prosopagnosia are of 2 types ; developmental and acquired, Developmental : refers to those who have the condition without brain injury, which can be genetic. Studies show 1 in 50 people may have developmental prosopagnosia. Acquired ; refers to those who have the condition following brain injury like a stroke or head injury.
Meanwhile , Dr. Leah Croll, an assistant professor of neurology at Temple University Hospital, during the Good Morning America show said that neurological disorder is “a very real syndrome” that often comes with an extended spectrum of symptoms that can impact the sufferers everyday life. ●
“For some people, it may be just some minor difficulties in remembering people’s names and keeping strangers straight,” she told the outlet. “And for other people, it may be more severe such that they have issues with recognizing their own friends and family or even issues recognizing their own reflection.”
Dr. Croll continued by saying “I think that Brad Pitt is experiencing something that many patients experience which is this funny feeling that something is off, but they’re not quite sure what it is or where to go for help,” Croll continued, emphasizing that she has not diagnosed Pitt herself. “So someone thinking that Brad Pitt story sounds familiar to them or that they’re having similar symptoms, I would recommend they go see a neurologist and get formally tested and evaluated.”
Face Blindness or Prosopagnosia has no Treatment. But with Excellent therapy, those who have the disorder can develop “counter balance Strategies ” .