Brad Pitt Says He Has Facial Blindness

 

The famous American actor Brad Pitt recently revealed he suffer from a condition known as prosopagnosia or in a simple term – facial blindness. It is a condition where one suffer from recognizing and remembering the face of other people or a neurological disorder.

According to him when he shares his condition no one believes him and even given him an impression that he is aloof or people might see him or have an impression he is aloof. However, he is not yet formally diagnosed about but he only suspects he has it and he struggle with for years. His condition according to him led him to stay home so much. He spoke about it in his interview in GQ and in Esquire 2013, he said his condition become so severe that lead him to isolate himself and stay home.

What Is Prosopagnosia?

It is not a memory loss neither visual impairment nor forgetfulness but just face or facial blindness according to health experts.

The condition varies in severity and has two categories according to health experts. Those who born with the condition and those acquire it later in life.

Brad Pitt (image from Botanica website)