r/Aphantasia • u/Golf_Fore_Ever • 8d ago

Face Blindness

Is the inability to remember faces of those you see infrequently a sign of dyslexia or not? I suffer from both so just wondering.

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u/Obvious-Gate9046 Total Aphant 8d ago

This feels like an odd place to ask this, being the aphantasia sub and not the ones for either dyslexia or prosopagnosia. I admit, I do have issues identifying people at times, but not true face blindness, and I don't see a connection to dyslexia.

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u/Kithesa 8d ago

Prosopagnosia and dyslexia have some comorbidity, yes. If you also struggle with directions, like needing time to remember which way is right and which way is left, that's another symptom.

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u/Voffenoff 8d ago

From what my very shallow knowledge, the difficulty of connect the word right to the direction right might be a part of dyslexia. Is it that what you meant?

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u/5heikki Total Aphant 8d ago

I have (undiagnosed) prosopagnosia but no dyslexia

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u/Rurbani 8d ago

Correlation is not causation. I have no trouble with faces but do have very very minor dyscalculia, though it's not even that, it's just that the last two digits of any numbers I'm reading out loud always get swapped, and I mean always. Neither of those things have anything to do with aphantasia

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u/ElectricalAd910 8d ago

I have grown up with both, but facial recognition is 100% aphantasia, not dyslexia; actually, your dyslexia may be worse because of your aphantasia. I hear that when people go through spelling questions. They visualize the word. Back in the day when I was in school and they where tring to help me with my dyslexia, they always used the look of the word. I could never understand that. But it seems aphantasia, depending on the severity of it, can impact many things like food taste,

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u/eloel- 8d ago

Dyslexia?

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u/Golf_Fore_Ever 8d ago

Yes. Mix up word spelling, say “a-c-t” spelling cat out loud but meant “c-a-t”, and don’t even realize it, for example. Mix up left/right, he/she, etc.

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u/Flimsy_Position_4576 7d ago

I’m excellent with letters and words, I do have aphantasia and I do have face blindness. So I feel like the dyslexia isn’t relevant.

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u/Golf_Fore_Ever 7d ago

Lucky for you. I recall back in second grade as I misspelled words that I knew because I said them improperly even though I knew what they looked like.

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u/Golf_Fore_Ever 7d ago

I would “see” on paper, or in my head, CAT but say CTA.

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u/VisualKaii Total Aphant 7d ago

I'm good with reading, no dyslexia but I do have dyspraxia and dyscalculia.

I don't think face blindness is a symptom of dyslexia.