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From: "vcreek2002" <vcreek2002@...>

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> The punch line: I could describe nothing about him except his body
> shape--I did not know what RACE he was!


That has happened to me at work (retail) when I was waiting on one customer,
got side-tracked, then returned to the customer I'd been helping and didn't
remember whether it was the black man or the white man who was standing
there.

>
> There has been another much more serious incident discussed on this site
> where the police refused to belief that a person with PA was unable to
> identify a criminal suspect.


The police departments better educate themselves about prosopagnosia. I hope
I'm never the victim or witness of a crime.


D.





Wed Jul 8, 2009 6:20 pm

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