"I've been in a crowded elevator with mirrors all around, and a woman will move and I'll go to get out the way and then realise: 'oh that woman is me'."
Heather Sellers has prosopagnosia, more commonly known as face blindness. "I can't remember any image of the human face. It's simply not special to me," she says. "I don't process them like I do a car or a dog. It's not a visual problem, it's a perception problem."
It's pretty fascinating to think about what it would be like to have conditions like these that cause people to see the world in a different way.
I'm sure that many (most?) people without face blindness have never even consciously realized that recognizing faces is a special thing that we humans do.
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Mindscapes: The woman who can’t recognise her face – health – 02 May 2013 – New Scientist
Heather Sellers has one of the worst cases of prosopagnosia ever recorded. She can’t recognise any face – even her own – so she uses gait to
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