I'll be appearing on a program on KPFA, 94.1 FM, on Sunday, January 4 at 6:30 p.m. The topic will be face blindness. Those of you in the Bay Area may want to...
cool! i really want to catch that one. i'm going for another fMRI on monday.... should be fun! i don't mind them really, but that lab was cold even during that...
a faceblind engineer who can write with a sense of humor?!?! will wonders never cease? really nice job..... wanna hear about the time i looked at my husband...
... One group member pointed out to me just now that KPFA is streamed on the web, so any of you can listen to it, whether you are in the Bay Area or not. The...
bill, great job! i was hoping for a longer show and a call in session so people could ask questions - i would have thrown you a softball ;-)) mary ... ...
... I agree, except for the softball. See, if it were me, I probably would have thrown a mean curveball, but thats just me. ;-) For those who missed it, as I...
Good job, Bill-- I very much enjoyed your presentation, but getting to hear you speak was the best part. You are just as articulate on the air as you are on...
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Jan 5, 2004 6:37 am
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Hi, I just found Bill Choisser's e book on face blindness while looking for sights on dyslexia and Aspergers Syndrome. After reading some of it I found the...
hi sylvia, welcome to the group. you are just a few years ahead of me - my boys are 19 and 13 and my daughter is 16. i also found out about PA when looking...
Hello everyone, I'm Ellen Smith and I was born with 95% hearing loss in both ears due to Rubella. I'm 37 yrs old and I have reason to think I may have ...
Hi Ellen, and welcome to our group! ... My hearing is not as bad as yours, but it is bad enough that I thought learning sign would help me socially. I tried...
hi ellen, welcome to the group. it's interesting that you can draw faces well. while i am not an artist as you are - i can also render faces well enough. (for...
Hi Bill and Ellen, Thanks for sharing your experiences. Very intriguing. A couple of quick questions (from a researcher on face-blindness). Firstly, do you...
Although I can draw faces well, I almost never can do the same face twice and the only way I can do that is to copy it from a picture. When I attempt to...
... Ha ha, I can relate. It's especially appalling to me when I see hearing people pick up sign faster than me. I also have vivid memories of one Deaf person...
... I found most Deaf people didn't like me. That was probably why. Also, this is maybe why we didn't learn sign well - facial expressions are a big part of...
... No problem at all with driving. ... I never could learn to swim the way they wanted me to, but I soon taught myself how to dog paddle, and I very much...
Hi Ellen, I once almost caused an accident because a policemen signaled at me. I thought he meant for me to go, but he meant for me to stop. I couldn't tell. ...
... I had a great deal of trouble learning to drive. I was 21 yrs old before I got my driver's liscense. ... I'm told that I'm a natural at swimming. Odd as I...
i'm sorry drawing faces doesn't help you. i would have much better luck rendering something identifiable if i used a photo rather than trying to draw from my ...
... Well I can remember facial parts pretty well but I still can not attach names to faces. ... I can understand mines if they're very slapstick but otherwise...
... signaled at me. I thought he meant for me to go, but he meant for me to stop. I couldn't tell. o.0! Where I live, there are tons of construction projects....
<< And a friend once told me he found it frustrating to walk with me on the street because I did not read the obvious (to him) signals of all of the people we...
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Jan 17, 2004 8:15 pm
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Things that I remember about faces: smiles, eyebrows, hair, ununusal features, clothes or ascessories. I often use the height of person in relation to my...
those are very nice drawings! well done! good for you! one thing you do very well that i have lots of problems with is align the nose/mouth "complex" with the...
Maybe you just have a few of Picasso's genes :0) ... From: mary zeiler To: faceblind@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 7:30 PM Subject: Re:...
I couldn't figure out how to access your drawings form the snippet below. Please advise. -Mimi I've uploaded an example <a href="http://www.geocities.com/ ...
try this. http://www.geocities.com/mssd85/newfade.jpg i think that should get you there. ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs:...
A friend sent me this URL that is entitled "Face processing occurs outside the fusiform 'face area' in autism: evidence from functional MRI." He thought some...