I would never testify in a court as an eye witness. Any identification I made would be unreliable since I get people confused all the time. I don't recognize people by their features, and I really don't know how I recognize the people who I'm familiar with. I can recognize someone from the back and across the room as well as I can when right next to them. I know the way they move, their profile, shape, color of hair, and mannerisms play a large part in my ability to recognize people.

However, I don't believe I have true Prosopagnosia because if I could see the features clearly I believe I would be able to recognize them by their features. I have double vision because the muscles in my eyes don't work properly. I get fuzzy images with shadows around objects.

Cross-eyed is the extreme form of my problem. The muscles in my eyes pull my eyes out of alignment. Prisms would work if the amount of misalignment didn't change with looking right, left, up, and down. For prisms to work for me I would have to look at things to the side, etc with my whole body. The kicker is that my eyes aren't bad enough for surgery.

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