cyn bigelow

i thought i had prosopagnosia for some years... have no visual memory of faces. then i realized that didn't explain my condition because i also couldn't visually remember cars or dogs or directions or... anything, which led me to aphantasia. what was puzzling to me is that i do very well in the facial identification tests for propopagnosia but when looking at an actual person i have no idea who they are unless i've met them many many times in a fairly short period of time. finally, read (or maybe it was on a podcast) that people with aphantasia have no problem remembering something when they see it, but can't describe it or recall what it was visually. this would explain (if accurate) a difference between the 2... people with propopagnosia will not recognise someone in a photo... people with aphantasia can but, if we close our eyes, can't describe or recall what they were just looking at. this has been my experience and is why i now think i do not have propopagnosia but do have aphantasia.