Sharona Pearl

So they might not be living in that condition of terror or overwhelmingness or sense of loss until later.

But absolutely, that's the case.

And while I'm interested in the way that extremeness itself is something that people have in common, so trying to think about what face-blind people and super-recognizers

themselves have in common by virtue of being on extreme ends of this kind of unusual spectrum, there's no doubt that the challenges of being face-blind are much more significant from all kinds of perspectives, including social and navigational and safety.

But

One of the nice things about this now becoming a category is that people have some language to describe themselves.

And I think that's really important.

I recognize the stigma attached to labeling, but at the same time being able to say, it's not that I'm rude.

I genuinely can't recognize you.

It can be an enormous relief from that fear you're talking about.

Yeah, I mean, I think some of that is, again, about the relationships and the interaction that you're having.

So their face kind of imprints a little more meaningfully on you because you've had this encounter with them.

But I really like the point that you raised that often people do tend to look pretty similar.

Obviously, that's not exclusively the case.

But even for those of us who aren't face blind, it might be really challenging to be able to distinguish between four Hollywood celebrities

actors who all have the same haircut and teeth and veneers and kind of nose and so on and so forth, and it's not accidental.

I mean, there is this enormous pressure for people to look similar to one another, right?

So I think that when you're in a group of people who do tend to look pretty similar, that can be harder.

Well, there's a cultural thing to think about there is the fact that they all became superstars, a function of them all kind of looking similar.

They might, on some level, occupy a similar kind of genre of look.