Good one, dad.

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Alan Alda is opening up in regards to the time he didn't acknowledge his personal daughter attributable to a situation he'd later come to seek out out was prosopagnosia, or face blindness.

In all equity, the incident occurred on the set of Alda's movie The 4 Seasons, after he had had his daughter, Beatrice, dye her hair a totally totally different shade for her function within the comedy. "I noticed this individual with horn-rimmed glasses and blonde hair looking at me, and it was beginning to get distracting," Alda recalled to PEOPLE. "I mentioned to the assistant director, 'Don't let these strangers come on the set.' He mentioned, 'That's your daughter!' I don't suppose she was too pleased about that, as a result of neither of us knew that there was such a factor as face blindness [at the time]."

Alda mentioned to today it's "very laborious" for him to acknowledge folks as a result of situation. "When any person comes as much as me, as in the event that they know me, I typically don't know in the event that they know me from seeing me on the display screen or if I really know them," he informed the outlet. "I may have dinner with any person, spend two hours with any person subsequent to me, and the subsequent day not know who they’re."

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Alda, 89, has been open about his well being struggles lately. In 2018, he revealed he had been identified with Parkinson's illness in 2015.

On the time, he told CBS This Morning he determined to disclose his prognosis after noticing his "thumb twitch" throughout some latest TV appearances to advertise his podcast, Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda. "I assumed, it's in all probability solely a matter of time earlier than any person does a narrative about this from a tragic standpoint, however that's not the place I’m," he mentioned.

Talking with PEOPLE extra lately, Alda gave an replace on his situation, telling the outlet, “I don’t have dexterity with my fingers the way in which I used to, so generally [my wife, Arlene] has to tear a bundle open for me,” he mentioned. “She’s so good-natured about it. I’m all the time saying, ‘Thanks.’"

He additionally admitted that whereas managing his Parkinson's has gone from "a part-time job to nearly a full-time job" over the previous 10 years, he's nonetheless capable of hold a optimistic outlook. "It retains me all the time in search of the humorous facet," he mentioned.

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