Brad Pitt has a rare disorder!
Brad Pitt spoke about a rare disorder that makes him prefer to stay at home.
Brad Pitt spoke about his struggle with prosopagnosia, which is also called 'face blindness '.Although the actor said he's never been officially diagnosed with prosopagnosia, a disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces, he recently told GQ that some people think he's absent, withdrawn, unavailable or self-absorbed because he can't remember them.
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'No one believes me! I want to meet others who suffer from this disorder,' he revealed.
The Oscar-winner has already opened up about this topic in an interview with Esquire in 2013. At the time, Pitt told the magazine that he preferred to stay home rather than go out.
'You meet so many people. And then you meet them again and get to know them,' he admitted. He revealed that he had a hard time remembering people even if he had spoken to them and that he tried to ' trick people ' into thinking he remembered them by hoping that when they met again he would leave some 'trace or context of conversation' that would help him to remember where they know each other. 'So many people hate me because they think I don't respect them,' he complained. He revealed that he tried to be honest with people and ask them where they met before, but that usually backfired.
' I was only making the situation worse because people were offended after my question,' he admitted and added that he felt that people considered him 'selfish' or 'conceited'.'But it's a mystery to me. I can't make out the face,' he said, adding that he plans to get tested.
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, an arm of the US National Institutes of Health, prosopagnosia is considered the result of an 'abnormality, damage or deterioration ' in the part of the brain that ' controls facial perception and memory '. It can be a consequence of stroke, traumatic brain injury or 'certain neurodegenerative diseases'.
In some cases, the institute states, it is a congenital disorder, present at birth without any brain damage.
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