Prosopagnosia – the condition that can make you unable to recognise your own children

Prosopagnosia – or face blindness – could affect as many as 2% of the UK population, and its symptoms can even lead to it being mistaken for autism

Kate Jones once walked straight past her husband at a train station. She knew that he was picking her up – but still blanked him. It wasn’t that she was angry with him. Jones (not her real name) has prosopagnosia – known as face blindness – so finds it impossible to recognise faces, however familiar.

Even her children’s features don’t cut through the condition; watching her daughter at a ballet show recently, she was unable to spot her among the other girls in identical buns and leotards. “I know who my children are, because they come out of school and run towards me,” she says. “And of course, I know what they are wearing. But yesterday I went to meet my mum and had to text her to wave at me.”

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