The Rare And Incurable Disease Of Princess Victoria Of Sweden

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Princess Victoria of Sweden suffers from a rare disease for which there is no cure and her name is no less peculiar: prosopagnosia. Do you know what it is?

Also known as "face blindness," prosopagnosia is a disorder that prevents the patient from remembering faces, as there is a disconnect between sight and brain.

While his eyes see perfectly, the brain is unable to interpret the information it receives. People who suffer from it often identify their friends and family with characteristics of their own that distinguish them from others, such as a mole, an item of clothing, hair color or tone of voice.

In severe cases of prosopagnosia some patients cannot even recognize their own face in a mirror.

It must be a difficult task for a person like the princess, who constantly interacts with a large number of people, to try to make her condition go unnoticed on a day-to-day basis. Add to this her problems with anorexia, already overcome, and dyslexia, ailments that he has not hidden and of which he spoke in previous interviews.

Both prosopagnosia and dyslexia are diseases that can be hereditary and in a documentary he expressed concern that his children might suffer from it.

In fact, the princess's father, King Carlos Gustavo, and his brother Carlos Felipe also suffer from dyslexia. The latter spoke of her like this: Nothing saddens me more than those of us who suffer from dyslexia, because we are not stupid. I know how you feel when someone thinks you are useless. Insults and teasing make you even more insecure, and this exacerbates the disorder and turns into a spiral”

The Swedish heir to the throne is married to Daniel Westling. The couple has two children, Estela, Duchess of Östergötland, born on February 23, 2012 and Oscar, Duke of Scania, born on March 2, 2016.