{"id":1144408,"date":"2022-07-07T22:40:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T22:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/brad-pitt-says-he-suffers-from-facial-blindness\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T22:40:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T22:40:22","slug":"brad-pitt-says-he-suffers-from-facial-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/brad-pitt-says-he-suffers-from-facial-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt Says He Suffers From Facial Blindness |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you run into Brad Pitt, chances are he won&#8217;t recognize you the second time around.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the award-winning actor says in a new interview with\u00a0GQ\u00a0that he suffers from facial blindness, also known as prosopagnosia, causing him to struggle to remember people&#8217;s faces.<\/p>\n<p>Although he has not been officially diagnosed, Pitt, 58, says he believes he has it.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>&#8220;Nobody believes me!&#8221; he said. &#8220;I wanna meet another [person with it].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pitt told GQ he wants to remember the people he meets and fears his struggle has given people the impression he&#8217;s aloof.<\/p>\n<p>Prosopagnosia is a neurological disorder that can cause people to have difficulty recognizing even family members or friends, according to the\u00a0National Institute of Health.\u00a0Treatment involves developing other strategies to recognize people, such as focusing on their voice.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0research\u00a0shows it can affect as many as 1 in 50 people to some degree.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Pitt spoke about suffering from this condition in 2013, telling\u00a0Esquire\u00a0it&#8217;s why he stays home so much.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: CNN<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\"><\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you run into Brad Pitt, chances are he won&#8217;t recognize you the second time around. That&#8217;s because the award-winning actor says in a new interview with\u00a0GQ\u00a0that he suffers from facial blindness, also known as prosopagnosia, causing him to struggle to remember people&#8217;s faces. Although he has not been officially diagnosed, Pitt, 58, says he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19400,16745,17545,16747,1317],"class_list":["post-1144408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-blindness","tag-brad","tag-facial","tag-pitt","tag-suffers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}