Ushna Shah’s surprising revelation: living with face blindness

• Ushna Shah, a Pakistani starlet, has revealed her condition of prosopagnosia, or face blindness.
• The condition makes it difficult for her to remember the faces or names of people she has met.
• Shah’s condition has severely affected her work, including recognizing actors she used to work with.

Ushna Shah recently revealed she has prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, a condition that makes it difficult for her to remember the faces or names of people she has met. As one of Pakistan’s top starlets with incredible acting talent, Ushna openly shared her experience with this condition, bringing it to the public’s attention.

Here is what Ushna Shah had shared:

Ushna Shah discussed her face blindness on her own show, revealing that the condition has become so severe it started affecting her work. Ushna revealed that “she was not able to recognize an actor that she used to go to the gym with. She revealed that she worked with actor Akhter Husnain in Aakhir Kab Tak where he played her uncle. She revealed that due to fake news, she doubted him to be an animal abuser and when she saw him at her gym, she never talked to him. She then saw him on sets of her drama and did not recognize him. She could not tell that the two people were the same for 4 months when the actor asked her and she put two and two together.”

Shah also discusses that “she cannot recognize addresses and cannot come back if she goes two blocks away. Her mother also has this condition.”

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