Woman's heartbreaking condition means that she can only see in 2-D - and can't recognize her husband or relatives

EXCLUSIVE Woman's heartbreaking condition means that she can only see in 2-D - and can't recognize her husband or relatives READ MORE: Brad Pitt details his struggle with rare 'face blindness' condition By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 16:39 BST, 14 July 2024 | Updated: 16:39 BST, 14 July 2024 e-mail 1 View comments Sadie Dingfelder was in the grocery store when she first realized her occasional difficulty recognizing people was more a problem than a quirk. Trailing behind her husband Steve through the aisles of a Safeway, she noticed he picked up a jar of store-brand peanut butter from the shelf, to which she asked, ‘Since when do you buy generic?’ In answer, the man she thought was Steve jumped, his face contorted in a mixture of confusion and horror.

It was not her husband. Blaming the embarrassing mix-up on the fact that Steve and the stranger were wearing the same coat, she had a disturbing thought bubble up from her subconscious on the ride home: Other people do not make this kind of mistake. The incident set off a years-long domino effect of efforts to understand why she had such trouble recognizing faces, even those of her family and closest friends.

It all culminated in a diagnosis of the neurological condition face blindness in 2019. Sadie Dingfelder has undergone numerous tests across the country to diagnose her face blindness and she participates in research studies and trials The best way a non-faceblind person can imagi.