I had been dating and living with a guy for three years and he always had a full head of

hair and a go-t.

That's Rebecca Watson.

She's a YouTuber who does science videos under the name Skeptchick.

And one day he picked me up after work in his car and I saw the car outside, went and

I jumped into the passenger seat and I turned and looked and I saw a complete stranger sitting

in the driver's seat and I said, oh my god, I'm so sorry.

I thought this was my boyfriend's car.

I jumped out of the car and it's only when he yelled after me that I recognized his

voice and realized that that was my boyfriend.

It's just that he had shaved his head and his go-t.

And you know, those were the features that made me recognize who he was and I remember

just thinking what is wrong with me.

Rebecca didn't know it at the time but she soon found out that she has this unusual condition

called Prasopagnosia or face blindness as it's commonly known.

It's going to be pretty much impossible for me to tell you apart from other faces that

bear any kind of similarity to your own.

People with Prasopagnosia often have to rely on non-facial information like hair color

or height to distinguish people, even people they know well.

I tend to focus on any strange part of a person's appearance, you know, if they have weird teeth

or a big nose or a mohawk or something like that.

Which I also think is why I don't find conventionally attractive actors attractive.

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