The People Who Cannot Recognise Faces.

It’s hard to imagine, but there are those that will not recognise you however many times you’ve met them.

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Stephen Fry is one of my favourite celebrities of all time. I’ve never had the opportunity to meet him, even though he grew up in the county in which I live and went to university in the city where I grew up.

I once saw him in a Cambridge street, and I always hoped he’d visit the bookshop where I worked, but he never did.

I have had the privilege of meeting his cousin, and my friend, who previously resided at a National Trust property, had the excellent fortune to meet him there. Everyone says what a friendly and wonderful man he is.

Maybe one day I will get to meet him.

But even if I do meet him and then meet him a short time later, he won’t remember my face.

It won’t be simply because I am a nobody. He suffers from a rare condition known as prosopagnosia, which prevents him from recognising faces.

I recently heard Stephen interviewed on a podcast, and he explained how it makes him feel — sometimes embarrassed.

It must be challenging to constantly explain your condition to others. He carries a card, which I guess makes it a…