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5165
Here's, it's free: www.chatterbean.com/runormal/ I'm afraid my little grandson is picking up some of these habits from me...my son left me an instant message...
Kathleen Eickwort
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Dec 1, 2006
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5166
... From: "Kathleen Eickwort" <Kathleen_E@...> To: <faceblind@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:34 AM Subject: Re: [faceblind] "Normalcy"...
Delila
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Dec 1, 2006
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5167
... This test for me: Marvelous Maverick! :) D....
Delila
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Dec 1, 2006
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5168
Oops! There are child predators out there that don't care how big a kid is, and AS kids are especially at risk due to our different levels of social skills. ...
joni pinkney
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Dec 1, 2006
4:35 pm
5169
I'll worry about that when he's not with immediate family members all the time...he's homeschooled. But that's why I said "physical" safety. There is no way I...
Kathleen Eickwort
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Dec 1, 2006
5:23 pm
5170
That happens to me a lot. It depends on whether or not their voice is very distinctive. And sometimes I mistake one person for another becuase they have...
joni pinkney
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Dec 1, 2006
6:13 pm
5171
I love Sci Fi. In the original Star Trek, as in The Next Generation, or in Deep Space Nine, I found that the characters had distinctive enough voices, or else...
claudia spiro
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Dec 1, 2006
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5172
Deena, this is great! Deena Larsen <deenalarsen@...> wrote: Zack, I have been face-blind all my life--but I wrote a short hypertext piece on how people...
claudia spiro
claudia103b6
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Dec 1, 2006
9:21 pm
5173
Yes, I usually watch t.v. and movies for the plot, not the characters. I get enough from just following the plot to be entertained. Usually. Sometimes the plot...
Bonnie
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Dec 1, 2006
9:52 pm
5174
... J. Michael Straczynski (JMS), the creator of Babylon 5, made it easier for us, although he probably wasn't thinking about faceblind people. For a few...
Carol Botteron
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Dec 1, 2006
10:08 pm
5175
... Interesting. I hadn't heard that story, although I did notice I could generally tell the characters apart and recognize them out of context. (I didn't...
Dawn Lloyd
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Dec 2, 2006
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5176
i usually have to ask their name or ask them where i know them from. most people have been very tolerant of this. sometimes the voice helps, but if they are...
littlecatgray
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Dec 2, 2006
4:39 am
5177
... . ... I'd love to recognize people in 2 seconds! I think i partly suffer from the over recognition, the more people i meet, the more everyone is looking...
littlecatgray
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Dec 2, 2006
4:56 am
5178
... *** How do you do that? Would you give examples of how you ask their name? Do you just ask or explain face blindness first? I always thought people would...
Bonnie
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Dec 2, 2006
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5179
... I say, "Uhm, I'm sorry... who are you?" or "err, I know I should know, but I don't do faces. What's your name again?" ... I try to explain it to everyone...
Dawn Lloyd
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Dec 2, 2006
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5180
The Minbari are hairless. That's why. Someone once asked, Gene Roddenberry (Creator of Star Trek), why all the aliens looked just like humans except for...
Elizabeth Hensley
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Dec 3, 2006
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5181
... I thought about this, but so are the Narn. And the Centauri's hair all looks the same (at least when dealing with the court... minus Cartagia's reign.)...
Dawn Lloyd
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Dec 3, 2006
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5182
they are frequently offended, but I have just been taking that as it comes because I have memory problems as well. I usually apologize at first and tell them...
littlecatgray
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Dec 3, 2006
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5183
I am pretty sure mine is not psychological because i have other manifestations that occur at the same time. I start slurring words, dragging a foot, dropping...
littlecatgray
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Dec 3, 2006
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5184
I wouldn't think the increase in stuttering was psychological either, but it is true that any organic brain condition becomes worse when you are anxious. I...
Kathleen Eickwort
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Dec 3, 2006
11:45 am
5185
Laurie, I'm not a doctor, so big grain of salt here, but I work in an ER and recently was talking to one of our neurologists about some stuff. One thing she...
zax_wilson
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Dec 3, 2006
2:59 pm
5186
Laurie notes: >>I have other manifestations that occur at the same time. I start slurring words, dragging a foot, dropping things and my hand curls and what's...
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bobrichmond55
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Dec 3, 2006
5:09 pm
5187
If there's one disease I wouldn't try self-diagnosis on, it'd be celiac disease (gluten enteropathy, sprue). A gastroenterologist is needed here - for a child,...
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bobrichmond55
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Dec 3, 2006
5:16 pm
5188
Am I in the #5. Are there more? category? I think three of my family members are, too! If my family is any indicator, there are plenty of developmentally...
claudia spiro
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Dec 3, 2006
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5189
Face-blindness that may have pre-existed to some extent earlier, but which became much worse after proven acute exposure to mercury near a coal-burning power...
Kathleen Eickwort
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Dec 3, 2006
8:44 pm
5190
I hate to say it, my dear medical friend, but I do disagree with you on this. My grandson's pediatrician did diagnose celiac disease based on his positive...
Kathleen Eickwort
srkathy
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Dec 3, 2006
9:03 pm
5191
I would like to add, the pediatrician who diagnosed Benny without an invasive procedure is Board Certified in both pediatrics and Internal Medicine and now has...
Kathleen Eickwort
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Dec 3, 2006
9:25 pm
5192
Hi Kathy and all! Not sure what you disagree with me about - it seems to me that both of you probably have adequate diagnoses of celiac disease. There are a...
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bobrichmond55
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Dec 3, 2006
11:56 pm
5193
OK, let's add another category - note that I re-numbered my taxonomy: 1. Face-blindness with no other neurologic symptoms. I suppose these people are the ones...
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bobrichmond55
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Dec 4, 2006
12:01 am
5194
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6198704.stm The link says psychopaths show less activity in brain areas involved in assessing the emotion of facial...
Bonnie
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