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Just finished watching Kdrama, The Secret Life of My Secretary , which had the male lead afflicted with prosopagnosia! The second K-drama I have watched where this happened, the one I watched before was Beauty Inside.
This time I think the disabling part of it was expressed better: first because the male lead's ability to read facial expressions is very good so other people experience it as 'mind reading', he's very aware of their feelings and intentions through their expressions. So when he loses that it's a real loss, he suddenly can't tell what people are thinking and what their intentions towards him are. And there are bits where he blanks his best friend , or gives a stranger the flowers and the hug he meant to give his mother, and those are embarrassing and inappropriate things to do, and he has to come up with excuses. It feels like more of a *disability*. In 'Beauty Inside' when we meet the male lead is after a few years of adjusting to having prosopagnosia and he has more coping mechanisms in place, he's very aware of people's hairstyles and little details like who has pierced ears. In the secret life of my secretary he is only just starting to develop systems, he just recognised faces before and he wasn't keeping track of, e.g., their hair.
Part of it is just the contrast to what he had before that he cannot access now.

EDITED TO ADD: I liked the way the prosopagnosia was depiscted at first, with people's faces just shifting so the same person had a different face every time he looked at them.
Later there was just a blur where the face should be, when his condition worsened: as though it were better to see no face at all than to see the face wrong.

THe trouble I had with 'Beauty Inside' is that prosopagnosia is just how life is. Of course I don't recognise celebrities out of context. Of course if I haven't seen someone in a while I need to re-adjust and update my memory of their face. Of course when k-pop boy Hyunjin StrayKids got all his hair buzzed down to a centimetre I could not recognise his face.

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Series I started to watch now that I finished prosopagnosia content: genders again!

A Korean series that just started, 'My Girlfriend is the Man', in which a girl wakes up one morning and finds herself a very handsome boy. It's a condition, it runs in the family.

(i really like the first episode, which introduces the boyfriend and girlfriend, it shows he's devoted by having him show up after her job interview - with flowers - and with plasters for her feet and comfortable slippers to change into, because he knows she wore her pretty-but-uncomfortable shoes. It shows her mentioning her boyfriend giving her a book she loves at a job interview with the publisher of this book. It shows them snogging he walks her home - they are cute and in love and attracted to each other, and the show knows how to show it.)

A Japanese series, 'Cinderella's Closet', in which one of the main characters is a cross dresser who sometimes presents as female and sometimes presents as male.

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