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Tag: Allison Blazek

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Autism

I Don’t Know His Name, But His Face Rings a Bell

Posted on March 14, 2012November 2, 2022 by Allison Blazek

My particular form of prosopagnosia (facial blindness) includes inability to recognize faces and names.  For example, every year I dreaded our family reunion and the inevitable awkwardness of seeing cousins and aunts and uncles and having no idea what their names were.

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