Laura, group...yes. I got 33% on the famous faces test, but I noticed something a bit interesting (which I'd noticed before) which is that I'm pretty certain...
... This isn't directly relevant, but it's seemed to me for a while that there are two groups of faceblind people on this and other lists: those who don't...
I've never been able to remember (or even really make sense of) plots in novels, movies or tv shows. There are some novels I've read up to several times a year...
I scored 18% on one of the test and 17% on the other and I have been of the impression that I didn't have the problem to the extent that most of us do from...
As a child, before anyone I knew had a name for being "face blind" or had ever even heard of prosopagnosia, I was constantly offending my peers and others by...
It is comforting to know there are other people like us and it is supporting to know there are ways for us to cope so we can be with people who are not like ...
... wrote: "Who hears the fishes when they scream?" Weeks later, another classmate answered beneath it, "Other fishes, Stupid!" ... has meant so much to me. ...
Jo Foti wrote ... Hi Jo, As I read your post I had an instant of wondering whether I'd written it myself - it was so exactly my own experience! I do think...
Jo, I think these are my sentiments about travel... I relax completely on my trips to far away places because I do not fear my problem embarrassing me or...
I also have dyslexia and have been told it is typical to also have a condition called disorientation. In other words: I can experience a feeling of unbalance...
Face Blindness runs in my family. My mother and probably her mother, myself and (at least) three of my brothers & sisters (of six grown siblings), my 13 yr....
Hi Laura, Thank you so much for the explanation of the scores. It really helped. I guess for someone with faceblindness I must be a near genius with around 56%...
I am not dyslexic, but I do transpose numbers. I cannot stand on one foot either. I have also been told that <if you can stand and walk, you should be able to...
In a message dated 9/2/2006 3:20:56 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, scheibw@... writes: all Face Blind people have the FB spider's body and the majority...
... Rarely, if ever, do I do this, though it is certainly more common for me when I am either accessively tired or trying to overpace myself. As a cashier, I...
Welcome! My face blindness is hereditary too, on my father's side. Claudia scheibgroup <scheibw@...> wrote: Face Blindness runs in my family. My mother...
... I've known for a long time that I rarely have trouble making the all important "first impression". The problem, much as you relate here, is that it is...
Jim, your suggestion to say, "All people have the spider body..." is certainly untrue (in this context) and would be very counter productive in the education...
On Sep 3rd Glenn wrote ... I've just had one instance where this was wholly successful. I'd told my son about FB and he seemed very interested. Unknown to me,...
Nice meeting you Claudia! One thing's for sure...we do know that familial prosopagnasia can be passed down by either the mother or father. My father could...
Thank You, Jo for sharing that with us! I'm sure your heart was really warmed by your son's friends' reactions! That is really encuraging! I'm on the...
... This is absolutely wonderful, and you should heep high the praises on your son for this and how helpful it really is to you that he did this! ... I never...
... Just to chime in from the other side, I don't have any problem balancing on one foot. I've never timed myself (or at least I haven't since elementary...
Hi Claudia I know exactly what you mean. I too take comfort in the Lord and I also know what it is like to be assumed to be rude, or lying, or cold, or...
... Sorry, Glenn - I should have made it clear that my son and the friends involved are all in their thirties and he certainly doesn't take my word as gospel! ...
Thank you, Claudia for putting these thoughts out there for all of us to ponder & appreciate. I definitely can relate to your pain. I've had many of the same...
At what point is the other person responsible for identifying themselves? I've been told the problem with face blindness is that people's sense of self-worth...
... When you have described the nature of your difficulties and explicitly state that there is a social reason why you wish they would do so, it then becomes...
This week I discovered that two people at church that I thought were one person, really ARE two people. I am tempted to tell someone at church but also still...
I am in the first group. I can learn them, but even with walking around with the church directory and WORKING at it, I managed to morph two people into one! I...
