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Prosopagnosia is not what aphantasia is.

• skinkestek 1y ago
  No, but it wouldn't be surprising if they might be somewhat correlated? I can recognize my wife easily now, but the first few months as we dated I was always scared that I wouldn't see her because I don't know what she looks like, I just recognize her and everyone else when I see them. To the degree I have any day to day mental imagery it only works as a very very brief "overlay" when my eyes are open and I only see certain pictures: a passport image of my Mom that I have in a photo book a picture of my wife before we married that is my phone background and that I therefore have seen many times the wedding photo of my parents from the hallway as a kid (even though I meet them a few times a year and often see other pictures of them) And these images are faint, overlayed on other images and disappear in milliseconds.
• loco5niner 1y ago
  She has both. I described both, and I think they are related.