it’s literally part of his medical condition many people who have face blindness go through similar issues bc they don’t see emotions it’s like a missing link in the development process they go off gesture and tone even then if they aren’t specifically taught it’s even harder it’s like someone texting you something and it gets misconstrued bc the lack of tone level room for misunderstanding or interpretation like there are cases where people can’t even see their own face in the mirror like imagine devotional stunt you have from being a baby and not being able to recognize your mother’s face and if it’s not caught very early on in the learning years, it’s the same as a language if you’re not top for the age of seven, it gets substantially harder and for them the differentiation is so hard that they tended treat all relationships the same a lot of it is on the broad spectrum of indifference or straight kindness because you can’t tell the difference between your loved one a stranger most of the time and people will bring up being blind you learn at a very young age that you’re blind you live with that and are taught in a specific way to communicate and develop emotions like a lot of people with face blindness prefer reading over watching movies and TV shows because they can’t follow it and even when they read, they’re not making up faces in their head because they won’t see faces you could describe something to them, but they’ve never known
it’s literally part of his medical condition many people who have face blindness go through similar issues bc they don’t see emotions it’s like a missing link in the development process they go off gesture and tone even then if they aren’t specifically taught it’s even harder it’s like someone texting you something and it gets misconstrued bc the lack of tone level room for misunderstanding or interpretation like there are cases where people can’t even see their own face in the mirror like imagine devotional stunt you have from being a baby and not being able to recognize your mother’s face and if it’s not caught very early on in the learning years, it’s the same as a language if you’re not top for the age of seven, it gets substantially harder and for them the differentiation is so hard that they tended treat all relationships the same a lot of it is on the broad spectrum of indifference or straight kindness because you can’t tell the difference between your loved one a stranger most of the time and people will bring up being blind you learn at a very young age that you’re blind you live with that and are taught in a specific way to communicate and develop emotions like a lot of people with face blindness prefer reading over watching movies and TV shows because they can’t follow it and even when they read, they’re not making up faces in their head because they won’t see faces you could describe something to them, but they’ve never known