... 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...
3027
whispyandfree
Sep 2, 2005 8:52 am
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 ...
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Glenn Alperin
glennalperin
Sep 2, 2005 9:29 am
... "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...
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D K
chat_tnchip
Sep 2, 2005 2:27 pm
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...
3030
D K
chat_tnchip
Sep 2, 2005 2:35 pm
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...
3031
Keith Thompson
jayjaycub
Sep 2, 2005 2:37 pm
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...
3032
Bill Choisser
billchoisser
Sep 2, 2005 3:09 pm
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...
3033
Bill Choisser
billchoisser
Sep 2, 2005 3:51 pm
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...
3034
Dee Kesley
chat_tnchip
Sep 2, 2005 4:37 pm
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...
3035
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 2, 2005 9:19 pm
... 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...
3036
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 2, 2005 9:33 pm
... 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)...
3037
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 2, 2005 9:37 pm
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...
3038
bikebiddy@...
bikebiddy
Sep 3, 2005 5:06 am
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...
3039
bikebiddy@...
bikebiddy
Sep 3, 2005 6:16 am
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...
3040
C B Bonham
cb_bonham
Sep 3, 2005 8:36 am
... *** 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...
3041
un gran mal arterial
btxvrns
Sep 3, 2005 8:59 am
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....
3042
mitch@...
mwagner_us
Sep 3, 2005 10:22 pm
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...
3043
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 4, 2005 12:04 am
... 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...
3044
Glenn Alperin
glennalperin
Sep 4, 2005 6:38 am
... 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...
3045
Bill Choisser
billchoisser
Sep 4, 2005 2:56 pm
... 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...
3046
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 5, 2005 3:31 am
... 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...
3047
Bill Choisser
billchoisser
Sep 5, 2005 8:29 am
... 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...
3048
D K
chat_tnchip
Sep 5, 2005 2:20 pm
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...
3049
Glenn Alperin
glennalperin
Sep 6, 2005 6:09 am
... 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...
3050
Sandra Greer
aratinga77
Sep 6, 2005 11:07 am
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...
3052
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 6, 2005 5:29 pm
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...
3053
Adeenalee@...
Sep 6, 2005 5:35 pm
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Elizabeth Hensley
atomdancerrr
Sep 6, 2005 7:01 pm
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...
3055
Glenn Alperin
glennalperin
Sep 7, 2005 12:18 am
... 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...
3056
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Sep 7, 2005 12:36 am
... So I think we can all agree that there's a computer somewhere that can understand that faceblind@yahoogroups.com is different than ...
