Brad Pitt opens up and makes candid revelation about his rare health condition

He continued: “Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I’ll say, ‘Thank you for helping me.’ But I piss more people off. 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. I am going to get it tested.”

Pitt tells GQ magazine that he has not yet received an official diagnosis of prosopagnosia because an official diagnosis requires undergoing extensive facial recognition tests in addition to research.

What on earth is prosopagnosia?

Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, means difficulty recognizing a person based on their face. Due to prosopagnosia, even the faces of familiar people, such as classmates or family members, can go unrecognized.

At its worst, all faces may look the same without any differences. In such cases, it’s difficult for a person to recognize another without another clue such as their voice.

Many people with face blindness may learn to recognize people through various means and may not even realize they’re suffering from the condition.

There are two different types of face blindness: congenital, known as developmental, and acquired, resulting from injury.

Various brain injuries, such as strokes, can, for example, cause symptoms of prosopagnosia afterwards. While there isn’t a universally applicable treatment for prosopagnosia, therapy typically involves acquiring compensatory strategies to utilize in social situations requiring facial recognition.