Prosopagnosia is a neurological disorder, typically referred to as face blindness, which causes difficulty with facial recognition
Brad Pitt is getting candid about his everyday struggle with social interactions.
The 58-year-old Oscar winner briefly opened up to GQ about the shame he feels dealing with what he believes to be prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder typically referred to as face blindness.
Pitt explained that, though he hasn’t been officially diagnosed with prosopagnosia, he has extreme difficulty recognizing people’s faces which he said has led others to think 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 previously told Esquire that he’s often dubbed as “egotistical” and “conceited” for his inability to remember people. “That’s why I stay at home,” he admitted.
“So many people hate me because they think I’m disrespecting them,” Pitt said at the time. “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.”
The Bullet Train star said he once tried to nicely ask people to remind him where they’d met, but “people were more offended.”
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