Face-blindness and stones
I learned something new today. This link explains about Prosopagnosia or face-blindness, using stones.
One of the hardest things to do is to try to imagine what it is like to experience the world in a completely different way. One of the reasons I read books (and blogs) is to walk in someone else's world for a while - whether that world is fictional or real.
One of the hardest things to do is to try to imagine what it is like to experience the world in a completely different way. One of the reasons I read books (and blogs) is to walk in someone else's world for a while - whether that world is fictional or real.
posted by Rachel at 1:25 pm
If you want to know more about face blindness have a look at www.faceblind.org or faceblind@yahoogroups
wow - I've just spent ages reading up on this. I can't believe I never heard of it before, but it's absolutely fascinating... and begging for a novel I think.
Oliver Sacks is good to read on this kind of thing.
Oliver Sacks is excellent, isn't he? I read the Man who mistook his wife for a hat ages ago, I must read it again.
Thanks for the links
There goes me, I can remember numbers but cannot recognise faces except where they are familiar as in day to day encounters.. I have perfected the art of having a conversation which nicely covers me asking questions, like how are the family etc, without having to mention them by name in the hope that they give me a clue as to their identity. Thought it was just me, but apparently not.
Sage
Ha! Face blindness! I have that and can't quite believe how most other people can tell who someone is just by looking at their face. I have blogged about it a few times (link below). The stones analogy you link to is the best I have come across :-)
I would make a hopeless witness to a crime as I couldn't even pick my husband out of an ID parade if they could find others of the same height, build and hair colour. I'm good on numberplates though (that's how I identify my neighbours generally).
http://secrets-and-subterfuge.blogspot.com/search/label/face%20blindness