Brad Pitt is making headlines once again and is not because he is starring in another movie or because he is getting married to another superstar, but because, according to him, he suffers from prosopagnosia.
This condition doesn’t allow him to recognize people’s faces.In a recent interview, the 58-year-old actor said that although he has never been formally diagnosed, he had struggled for years with the condition, he said. “Nobody believes me!” he told GQ.In 2013, he told Esquire that he wanted to isolate himself as a result. “That’s why I stay at home,” he admitted.“So many people hate me because they think I’m disrespecting them,” Pitt said at the time. “You get this thing, like, ‘You’re being egotistical.
You’re being conceited.’ But it’s a mystery to me, man. I can’t grasp a face, and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view.”According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the condition is not related to memory loss, vision impairment, learning disabilities, color blindness, or overall visual impairment. Dr.
Borna Bonakdarpour, a behavioral neurologist at Northwestern Medicine, told The New York Times that prosopagnosia varies in severity. “Some people with the condition may have trouble recognizing a familiar face, like a friend or family member, while others may not even be able to identify their own reflections.
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