I have partial facial blindness which makes it hard to picture faces that aren’t super familiar and I can’t create new faces in my head. I end up picturing faces of people I know and celebrities.
It becomes frustrating when I’m reading as the faces morph constantly into my head. I constantly stop to get the faces right. Sydney Sweeney ended up as 2 characters when I read “Bunny” lol. I also get a biased view of the characters this way. It makes it really hard to enjoy reading nowadays. Any suggestions? Different strategies for picturing or reading without picturing?
I’m pretty face blind, and I think a big perk of reading is that you don’t have to distinguish external images that other people can easily tell apart! I suppose I envision more of a blur or composite for a lot of the characters that are not distinctive looking, and tell them apart more by their role in the story, name, etc.