Face Blindness: When everyone is a stranger
From: 60 Minutes - 03/18/2012 & 02/28/2016
By: Lesley Stahl

Imagine you couldn't recognize people's faces, and even your own family
looked unfamiliar. Lesley Stahl reports on face blindness, a puzzling
neurological disorder

Most of us take for granted that we can instantly recognize people we know by
looking at their faces. It's so automatic, it almost sounds silly to even say
it. Friends can put on a hat, cut their hair, and we still know them by their
face. We can do this for thousands upon thousands of faces without ever
giving it a moment's thought. But imagine for a second what life would be
like if you couldn't, if your wife or husband looked like a stranger; you
couldn't tell your kids apart; couldn't recognize yourself in a mirror. As we
first reported a few years back, that's what life is like for people who
suffer from a mysterious condition called face blindness, or prosopagnosia,
that can make it nearly impossible to recognize or identify faces.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-face-blindness-when-everyone-is-a-stranger

Links:
Prosopagnosia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

What It's Like to Be Profoundly Face-Blind
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/07/what-its-like-to-be-profoundly-face-blind.html

I Can't See Faces
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1568-5-insane-realities-life-when-you-cant-see-faces.html

Prosopagnosia Research Center at Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and
  University College London
http://www.faceblind.org