... hard, but usually end up offending someone. Not for anything I say, but because I just have never been able to read the social cues needed to survive in...
Hello everybody! I have a 6 yr old son who may be face blind. We've known for a while (close to two years) that he has difficulty recognizing faces, and it ...
... "Appearing to be" and "being" are two seperate things entirely. My mother is fond of relaying the story about how, when I was in kindergarten or preschool...
Hi Erika, nice to meet you. This is a great place and I agree whole heartedly with almost everything Glen has already said... I too use clothing to identify...
Bill, or whoever knows about this stuff... what am I doing wrong when I post here and is my text all broken looking? I have dyslexia and it makes it so...
Each Sunday, I take the member list with me to church and sit in the front. Then I spend most of the meeting looking back at the faces in the congregation...
D.K., Your post looks fine to me! My guess is that the problem is related to the program you are READING group posts with. You need to be able to see about...
Welcome, Erika! I'd agree with what Glenn just said, to not discourage your son from using clothing to tell people apart. Some of us become quite good at...
Thanks Bill, I will try other things including the font. But not really sure that is it. If I were not dyslexic it probably would not be a problem. Got to...
... I think that this problem isn't at all unique to faceblind people, although it is possible that faceblindness makes these problems significantly worse. My...
Joel N. Weber II
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Sep 2, 2005 9:19 pm
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... Somewhere in one of John Taylor Gatto's books, he talks about a school somewhere in Massachusetts (I think it's probably about 20-30 miles from Boston)...
Joel N. Weber II
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Sep 2, 2005 9:33 pm
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I'd previously responded to this message, but there's one other thing ... I find that if someone suggests for the millionth time (for fairly small values of...
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 2, 2005 9:37 pm
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Hi Kieth and Sandy, I have sporadic attacks where I think I recognise everyone. Sometimes it takes me a few minutes before I realise what is happening. I'm...
Oops sorry, I should introduce myself. My name is Su, I found out that I wasn't alone in being faceblind about a year ago. It was such a huge relief I can...
... *** Really? Is he distinguishing people by their faces or by some other means? If your son is truly face blind then he will have difficulty recognizing...
From: "C B Bonham" ... i'm not 100% faceblind, but i know that pictures help me a lot when i have to recognize someone i rarely see, like distant relatives....
My name is Mitch Wagner, and I'm faceblind. I think. Well, not actually faceblind, but face-vision-impaired. In faceblindness, I'm the equivalent of the guy...
... I was under the impression that the term ``faceblind'' refers to not using the shape of the face itself to identify other people. Some faceblind people...
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 4, 2005 12:04 am
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... Certainly not as a "whole face", but the "shape of the face" is simply one clue one might use. I'm told that one can tell the nationality of a person...
... I am "bordering on savant" with reading images of hair on men. One researcher tried me with images of hairdos (they were essentially just like wigs) and...
... I've not tried that particular experiment, but I certainly can think of a time when I saw a woman who had a hairstyle that resembled the hairstyle of...
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 5, 2005 3:31 am
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... It could be! I've had several people mention the 1/4 inch dimension though, with either bandannas or bangs. Your brain could be doing the same thing but...
I think that everybody uses certain things to a certain extent. I do not use jeans, but I use the body mass or shape underneath the garment. A man I know (I...
... I don't tend to be very good at judging distances of any sort. In fact, some of the testing I have done with a few different researchers has indicated to...
None of us has any idea what other people are using. We are members of a social species where some sort of recognition is expected. But notice how many...
... Don't you think that one of the driving motivations in choosing one recognition strategy over the other is to maximize the information obtained using it...
I noticed in the supermarket yesterday evening that if I look at the eyes of people who are 10-20 feet away, that I can very clearly see that there are...
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 6, 2005 5:29 pm
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Adeenalee@...
Sep 6, 2005 5:35 pm
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The fact folks could be trained to recognize other races better, makes me hope someday, someone will figure out a way to teach us faceblind how to indentify...
... There was a lady at one point in time with whom I was in e-mail contact who was conducting research on the tangential issue of whether or not it is...
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