"There are people who hate me": this is prosopagnosia, the rare disease that Brad Pitt suffers
The actor confessed almost 10 years ago that he suffered from a pathology that 2.5% of the world's population also suffers and that for him is a nightmare
Hollywood actor Brad Pitt announced in 2013 that he suffered from a rare disease classified as prosopagnosia, a condition that affects 2.5% of the population worldwide. The protagonist of 'Fight club' and the ex-husband of Angelina Jolie came to assure that it is a disorder that causes people who work and, in general, live around him to end up hating him on some occasions, even if it is Of something you can't help
But what does prosopognosia really consist of and how does it affect Pitt? The simplest summary is that people who suffer from it have great difficulty recognizing the faces of people with whom they have previously established a relationship. This is how the interpreter confessed in an interview for the magazine 'Esquire', where he commented that it is a neurological disorder that produces a disconnection between the brain and sight.
How does prosopognosia affect Brad Pitt?
In the same interview, the protagonist of 'The curious case of Benjamin Button' claimed that coming across people he knew but could not recognize causes a hostile reaction on many occasions. "There are many people who hate me because they think I'm disrespecting them," lamented the Hollywood star.
Another complication of this disorder is that it has no treatment or solution, so experts can only recommend that people who suffer from it try to remember features outside the face such as hair or accessories such as piercings.
In any case, there are two types of prosopognosia. The first of these is the apperceptive, in which the person is not able to differentiate one face from another. The second, which Pitt suffers in this case, is the associative one, where if he is able to distinguish some traits but he would not be able to associate them with the known person.
"It is very hard"
Although it is striking that Hollywood stars such as Brad Pitt suffer from this striking disease, there have been several reports in various media about 'anonymous' people who also face this disorder.
In an article for the BBC Boo James, from Cardiff, said that she was once surprised to see how a strange woman greeted her on the bus. A lady who turned out to be her own mother: "It is very hard. It can be physically and emotionally exhausting to spend a day in public constantly wondering if you should have talked to someone," she commented to the British media.
