The bad part is I always thought I was really good at eyes. I make too much eye contact and make people nervous. I got lucky (I guessed on 4 of them) and I...
I got 22 and the average for aspies is 21.9. So I guess I'm an average Aspie. There is no "don't know' button so I just clicked on the first option when I...
Question for Fenn: You say you are a face-blind pathologist. Do you have problems identifying small body parts when separated from the body, or describing the...
... As I understand it, face blindness only applies to faces. However, it's not uncommon for prosopagnosics to also have problems recognizing shapes. This...
... From: "Joy Hecht" <hecht.joy@...> ... I think it means that it's hard to tell emotions by looking just at the eyes of a person. If I can see the...
Jared Radin asks: >>You say you are a face-blind pathologist. Do you have problems identifying small body parts when separated from the body, or describing the...
... Yes, that's what I mean. I can tell a bird, but not the kind of bird, unless obvious (to me), such a a blue jay, cardinal. But I cannot tell the...
Do you use your pattern-recognition skill to identify people? People have different gaits and the way their arms hang when standing which is different when ...
... have different gaits and the way their arms hang when standing which is different when walking. - I thought I studied traits of people to identify them,...
... *** I can't tell the different models of cars. I don't recognize my car or the same model of my car in the parking lot. I thought my black cat had...
With me there is a component of the not being able to identify similar things (vehicles in a class of vehicles) that have many similar components. I...
... Appaloosa and a Palomino, or a Quarter horse from an Arabian. But if there were a field of two dozen of the same breed/type/size of horse I would be in...
When animals become domesticated they start producing spots and stripes automatically. A few years back a family decided to breed silver foxes for tameness...
Elizabeth Hensley notes >> When animals become domesticated they start producing spots and stripes automatically.<< Actually white spotting genes (so-called...
i'm wondering if being faceblind makes a difference for some people. i couldnt even guess at most of them, i need the entire facial feature and body language. ...
that's interesting the same thing happened with minks, they said it was directly related to fear and anxiety/survival hormones. They said that calmer animals...
I find the reasearch using cartoons to teach emotions facinating. For me, one I have seen a face drawn in caricature it is much easier for me to recognize....
I can visualize a simple sketch where i cannot visualize much else. laurie ... For me, one I have seen a face drawn in caricature it is much easier for me to...
I generally have a hard time figuring out emotions but the eyes and mouth are my two biggest clues. I can usually tell by the way that the skin creases and the...
When I took the "famous faces" online test I scored pretty low, about the only ones I was able to recognise was past US presidents because I've seen them so...
For as long as I've realized that I'm somewhat faceblind, I've had a fear that I would be called upon to identify a deceased family member or friend, and would...
How awful. I'm sorry to hear about your mother, and glad you weren't called upon to make the ID. I have similar fears... Francine K ... [Non-text portions...
I had a sort of similar experience last year, well, not too similar. Y'all remember I'm a pathologist. Last year I was in court giving testimony about a...
I am so sorry for your loss. I had not considered that problem, but I have always worried that something would happen where I would need to describe my...
Hey All, My son has trouble recognizing people and reading emotions, but he can follow cartoons well. Since I put cartoons in the tip booklets I write, I have...
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