It’s never fun to share what you think is a harmless opinion on Twitter only to be flooded by replies diagnosing you with a medical condition. That said, comedy writer Jason Pargin, best known under his pseudonym David Wong, is either running a masterful running bit on Twitter, or he seriously needs to consider seeking medical attention.



In a recent tweet about Amazon’s Gen V, Pargin wrote, “The plot of the Amazon show Gen-V depends heavily on me being able to instantly tell these two characters apart, even in dim lighting, and I’ll admit I failed several times and misunderstood a major twist/subplot as a result,” attaching photos of Shelley Conn and Claudia Doumit, who play Indira Shetty and Victoria Neuman, respectively.


Considering the women look fairly different, users were quick to ask Pargin if perhaps he was suffering from face blindness, a legitimate condition also known as prosopagnosia that leaves people unable to recognize faces and unable to interpret facial expressions and cues. It can be caused by brain damage, but some are born with it, and it can occasionally be linked to other conditions like autism.



One dedicated Twitter user took the opportunity to point out that not only do they think Pargin has face blindness, but that they’ve suggested as much to him in the past. In July of last year, Pargin tweeted about Game of Thrones, asking if anyone else struggled to tell Jon Snow and Robb Stark apart (unsurprising, given that they’re related), following that up with a tweet about how he has to meet someone a bunch of times IRL in order to remember their face. Then again in October, he tweeted about not being able to differentiate between Rebecca Ferguson and Hayley Atwell in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning — Part One.



Considering Pargin’s line of work, users are torn as to whether this is a bit or not. If it is, it’s not landing particularly well, especially once it ventures outside Pargin’s regular audience. If it isn’t, dude should seriously consider getting his face blindness diagnosed before he offers any more film criticism that focuses on how similar everyone on screen looks. They don’t look that way to anyone else but you, bud.