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8184 vcreek2002 Offline Send Email Aug 1, 2008
2:45 pm
Hi Jim: Thanks for your response. I looked up agnosias on a neurology web- site where they were very easy to find in a list of neurological disorders and so...
8185 vcreek2002 Offline Send Email Aug 1, 2008
2:50 pm
Hi Again: Well, I just cannot turn off the social worker in myself! My I add that your mother's difficulties recognizing her own face could be unrelated to...
8186 jim7416@...
jim7416 Offline Send Email
Aug 2, 2008
3:03 am
In a message dated 8/1/2008 10:45:55 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, vcreek2002@... writes: Jim, I am curious. If my questions are rude, please forgive me...
8187 Bonnie
bonnieinthemist Offline Send Email
Aug 2, 2008
4:26 am
one of these days someone else may be waving at the same time, .... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - When a woman with gray hair waves at you in the window's ...
8188 vcreek2002 Offline Send Email Aug 3, 2008
3:43 pm
I was very touched by both posts. Vivian...
8189 claudia spiro
claudia103b6 Offline Send Email
Aug 4, 2008
3:43 pm
Vivian, I don't believe I have formally introduced myself- so hello!  I do remember names <grin>.  Glad you found us! These are excellent tactics!  My...
8190 elder.fiona Offline Send Email Aug 5, 2008
9:15 am
Guys I just want to say thanks for all your posts to my problem. Thanks for all the articles and references that you have given me - I passed these onto my mum...
8191 vcreek2002 Offline Send Email Aug 5, 2008
2:44 pm
Hi Claudia, Thank you! It is nice to hear from you. I appreciate your comments. I did not realize what a terrible speller and typist I am until I started...
8192 claudia spiro
claudia103b6 Offline Send Email
Aug 5, 2008
6:08 pm
Vivian, You're welcome- I think it is nice that someone posted the question you did!  I have another email with a spell-checking program, and it really does...
8193 Deena Larsen
deenalarsen Offline Send Email
Aug 6, 2008
10:03 pm
I also don't recognize myself in the mirror or in photos.  If I am the only one in the bathroom, then that must be me.  If I am in a crowd, then I wave or...
8194 daniel palmeri
palmeridj Offline Send Email
Aug 6, 2008
11:02 pm
One think I have found....   I can recognize myself in the mirror.  I have trouble recognizing myself in some pitcures.  I do't know if its me.  Me and my...
8195 elder.fiona Offline Send Email Aug 7, 2008
12:14 pm
Hi Deena Have you never recognised yourself or did this suddenly happen? I was also wondering if you could tell me if the doctors have ever formally diagnoised...
8196 Deena Larsen
deenalarsen Offline Send Email
Aug 7, 2008
8:15 pm
Hi,   I never have recognized myself in pictures or mirrors.  But I was in my mid 30s before I realized that other people did.  I dunno, it never really...
8197 jim7416@...
jim7416 Offline Send Email
Aug 8, 2008
3:23 am
In a message dated 8/6/2008 6:03:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, deenalarsen@... writes: This would be scary if you once recognized your face and now you...
8198 vcreek2002 Offline Send Email Aug 8, 2008
3:15 pm
Hi All: This is truly a fantastic group! When I was a child, the older people in my family would talk a lot about how beautiful or how handsome a certain...
8199 Ann J
ajennerjahn Offline Send Email
Aug 9, 2008
5:15 am
Hi Deena, I was so touched by your post. I identify with a number of things you said, athough I think my situation is milder. I use a mirror occasionally, but...
8200 Delila
bastard12363 Offline Send Email
Aug 9, 2008
11:47 am
... From: "Ann J" <annjmailbox-faceblind@...> I use a mirror occasionally, but often forget to check what I look like before I leave home. I really...
8201 Jill M. Knous
jam30058 Offline Send Email
Aug 9, 2008
3:13 pm
I love wearing make-up - it's the only way I can see my features - my eyelashes and brows are so blond, but when I put on make up I can see my face!...
8202 Delila
bastard12363 Offline Send Email
Aug 9, 2008
3:34 pm
... From: "Jill M. Knous" <jam30058@...> ... That's fine; I just don't like the fact that it seems to be expected of women. D....
8203 vcreek2002 Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2008
5:31 pm
I, too, was very touched by this post--I am touched by the struggles that everyone on this group is going through. Vivian ... you ... occasions ... home ... ...
8204 jim7416@...
jim7416 Offline Send Email
Aug 9, 2008
6:10 pm
In a message dated 8/8/2008 11:16:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, vcreek2002@... writes: how would life be different for those with PA if there were far...
8205 Dr. Bhuvanesh Awasthi
satiety1008 Offline Send Email
Aug 10, 2008
6:41 am
I agree with you fully. These days, neuroscientists are also looking at our sense of art and beauty. This maybe useful in some ways given the fact that we all...
8206 Michelle
michsarabia Offline Send Email
Aug 10, 2008
12:13 pm
Well, we started our in-service trainings this week, and so far I've managed to not recognize several people (by face and name) who had trainings and/or...
8207 Glenn Alperin
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Aug 10, 2008
8:04 pm
Just thought I would share this with you all. I was just listening to the radio and Mike Carruthers who does a regularly syndicated radio "column" happened to...
8208 claudia spiro
claudia103b6 Offline Send Email
Aug 12, 2008
5:31 pm
I used to have this problem, till I really studied my face.  I looked in the mirror, and counted the number of little lines outside the corners of my eyes...
8209 Ann J
ajennerjahn Offline Send Email
Aug 12, 2008
6:45 pm
I've heard this claim before, that faceblind people can recognize people better upside down. Does that work for anyone here? ... to the radio ... happened to ...
8210 daniel palmeri
palmeridj Offline Send Email
Aug 12, 2008
7:05 pm
    It has to do with what part of the brain you are using.    If the theory is correct (and its still up for debate) that there is a core facial...
8211 palmeridj Offline Send Email Aug 12, 2008
7:19 pm
Now with me being divorced, I am ready to start looking for a new partner. What I have noticed that I have lost my ability to tell how old a woman is. I think...
8212 Brad Duchaine
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Aug 12, 2008
7:24 pm
A few papers have documented people who are better with upside-down (usually called *inverted* in the literature) facial identity matching than upright ...
8213 Robert Richmond
bobrichmond55 Offline Send Email
Aug 12, 2008
7:26 pm
Am I or the subject supposed to be upside down? Either way, it's not an opportunity I have very often! Bob Richmond Knoxville TN...
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