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1036 jancaf2002 Offline Send Email Nov 6, 2002
9:00 am
Dear All i have started to wonder about my son Dan who is nearly 5 years old. he has always mixed people up - three girls at preschool who have shoulder length...
1037 Forest
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Nov 6, 2002
3:56 pm
... shoulder length curly black hair, and 2 boys who have collar length curly black hair, and any girl with shoulder lenght blond hair is Abby. << Have you had...
1038 Bill Choisser
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Nov 6, 2002
4:23 pm
... Let me point out that not all face blind people have bad vision, or had bad vision as children. I am face blind and have had 20/20 vision all my life. ...
1039 Forest
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Nov 6, 2002
4:36 pm
I didn't mean to imply all people with face-blindness had bad eyes, the sample I talked with was limited, but of that particular group we all had bad eyes....
1040 Bill Choisser
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Nov 6, 2002
4:44 pm
... I know you didn't, and that we agreed on the facts here. I just wanted to be SURE the public got those facts as we understand them. It would be awful for...
1041 butterwe@...
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Nov 7, 2002
12:56 pm
Interestingly, I was also nearsighted as a child, but not badly--even now, I'm about 20/60 in both eyes. I think I recall that my mother had me tested at a...
1042 charles_w_2000 Offline Send Email Nov 9, 2002
11:18 pm
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/b210.html ... Occasionally some of those (not all) with ADHD - ADD - attention deficit will respond to the right ADHD med (a central...
1043 chronogram@... Send Email Nov 10, 2002
4:14 am
Dear Jan - It's *wonderful* that you are tuned in to your child, and are trying to decipher what is happening for him, perceptually. Do you know that some ...
1044 gotinsulin Offline Send Email Nov 11, 2002
2:52 pm
Good Morning all, I am the momma to Tim, my name is Sandra. I believe Tim to be "face blind" or unable to recognize people in the traditional way. Tim is high...
1046 Hensley Elizabeth
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Nov 13, 2002
3:43 pm
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1047 gotinsulin Offline Send Email Nov 15, 2002
12:07 am
Hi, I was curious if anyone has any personal experience with DMG a food supplement? Especially anyone out there that is faceblind and falls under any of the...
1048 Hensley Elizabeth
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Nov 15, 2002
2:23 am
I sure don't. What does it do, make you better, make you worse? Let us know some more please! ... From: gotinsulin To: faceblind@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
1049 GotInsulin@...
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Nov 15, 2002
7:00 am
Let me clarify, I know that not all faceblind are autisitic. As my son is high functioning autistic and faceblind ... I brought this up here as coincidently...
1050 Hensley Elizabeth
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Nov 15, 2002
3:56 pm
Thanks for the informatiin. ... From: GotInsulin@... To: faceblind@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [faceblind]...
1052 patrickbonnet2003
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Nov 18, 2002
11:41 am
hello, i am a second year psychology student from england. I have an essay to write on "evidence suggesting that face and object recognition systems are...
1053 Bill Choisser
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Nov 18, 2002
2:37 pm
... Our existence is, in itself, the evidence you need, because there could be no other explanation for us. You can see links to our web sites at the bottom...
1055 detroiticus
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Nov 19, 2002
2:10 pm
I've spent a chunk of time reading through the thousand-something postings on this list, and feel compelled to simply respond and say 'hi'. It's been...
1058 Bill Choisser
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Nov 20, 2002
10:32 am
Welcome Niki, "Getting lost" - formally called "topographic agnosia", is probably the condition that runs most frequently with face blindness. Research ...
1059 detroiticus
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Nov 20, 2002
1:47 pm
Hi Niki, Your description of your frustration in having to follow explicit directions rings true for me too. I'm another one of those people who write down...
1061 Martina Grüter
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Nov 20, 2002
3:07 pm
Hello all, I think I have a special question to you all, who have PA. Has somebody been tested on the IQ ( I know that Bill was ---he told in his book) I...
1062 Martina Grüter
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Nov 20, 2002
3:07 pm
Hello Scott, yes I know that Jane Goodall has PA - but I think that she is not only identifying the primates by their faces .- They are looking different -...
1063 Forest
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Nov 20, 2002
3:59 pm
... spaced in evolutionary time. Any animal with a nest needs place skills. << I wonder how much animals go on smell and a magnetic sense rather than visual...
1064 Bill Choisser
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Nov 20, 2002
4:44 pm
... think ... whatsoever ... My suspicion would be that her brain did not see the chimps' faces as being faces at the subconscious level where the question,...
1065 Hensley Elizabeth
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Nov 20, 2002
5:13 pm
I do this. Staring: This is, perhaps, my most embarrassing habit. I get "stuck" staring at something.....but I can move my eyes if I have to (it's not a...
1066 Bill Choisser
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Nov 20, 2002
5:35 pm
... So you have the answer on me in a nutshell, and a more complete one - IQ tests for me have come in in the 130s and 140s. Tests aimed "at the middle" can...
1067 Lew Mills
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Nov 20, 2002
6:01 pm
... How do you know that it is not a "partial seizure"? That might explain a lot of the things you are saying. Have you been tested for that? Lew -- Lew Mills,...
1068 Forest
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Nov 20, 2002
7:01 pm
... blind people recognize faces they've seen many many times? Do you, for example, recognize your own house, the rooms in it, and places around your own...
1069 Jane Meyerding
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Nov 20, 2002
9:33 pm
Martina wrote: I think I have a special question to you all, who have PA. Has somebody been tested on the IQ .... My daughter 5 years was tested and there was...
1070 Jane Meyerding
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Nov 20, 2002
10:52 pm
... Fortunately, each has a very distinctive voice. ... I think Tom Arnold has darker hair, but I'm not sure I could tell them apart either. Jane...
1071 detroiticus
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Nov 20, 2002
11:55 pm
This sounds plausable and makes sense to me. Yet I am aware that the only face I can visualize at all is that of my dog, and I can in fact pick him out in...
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