Brad Pitt – Actor announced the sad news himself

Great producer and actor Brad Pitt shared some big news with his fans recently. The star spoke to QG and said he’s been facing difficulty in recognizing people’s faces, prosopagnosia a condition known as “face blindness.”

The Hollywood star with a sad tone in his voice, revealed that he isn’t yet been completely diagnosed with it but he is concerned that he has it.

He’s sacred of the condition for not being called by people as “remote and aloof”. And even desired of meeting other people with same condition.

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Mostly people not herd about this condition of face blindness, the situation is real and people have to live with it.

According to research, prosopagnosia is a neurological disorder that causes people to have problem in recognizing family and friends aa well that can even affect 1 in 50 people, according to the National Institute of Health.

Stated by The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes,

that there is no connection between “face blindness” and memory loss, learning impairment. or vision problems.

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In an article for the New York Times, Dani Blum spoke of the signs, its causes, and the remedies of the disorder, stating that severity differs from person to person and “It is not the same as forgetting or occasionally having trouble finding the correct word”.

Further, this condition leads to chronic anxiety or depression due to the loneliness and fear that are frequently associated with it.

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Basically related to stoke, brain trauma, or simply genetic predisposition. while those suffering from it doesn’t seem to have any visible structural abnormality.