Lost in a crowd. Brad Pitt recently opened up about his unique struggle to remember people’s faces, an experience he thinks is brought on by prosopagnosia.“Nobody believes me!” the Fight Club star, 58, told GQ in his August 2022 cover story.
When the interviewer revealed that their spouse suffers from the same condition, Pitt marveled, “I wanna meet another.”Though he hasn’t received an official diagnosis, the Golden Globe winner noted that large parties and other social settings aren’t always easy for him.
Per the journalist, Pitt’s “face blindness” has led him to wonder whether people consider him to be “remote and aloof, inaccessible, self-absorbed,” no matter how hard he tries to remember names and faces.Prosopagnosia often impacts people from birth, but some patients have experienced it after suffering strokes, traumatic brain injuries or other neurodegenerative diseases.
It can be so severe as to cause some people to not recognize their own relatives or friends, with many relying on details like hairstyles or mannerisms to identify people.Pitt previously spoke about his self-diagnosed condition during an interview with Esquire in 2013. “So many people hate me because they think I’m disrespecting them,” the Moneyball star claimed at the time. “Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I’ll say, ‘Thank you for helping me.’ … You get this thing, like, ‘You’re being egotistical.
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