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9217 D
chat_tnchip Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
6:29 am
Joyce I loved the connection thing. Photo help me keep a connection too but more typically it is a visual one. I can not remember live faces but nearly...
9218 robcross555 Send Email Jul 7, 2009
6:29 am
Vivian, you have trouble recognizing voices too? That's interesting, because I thought most people with prosopagnosia use voices as one of the main ways to...
9219 D
chat_tnchip Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
6:30 am
Vivian, something about your statement has brought out a lot of pain in me. I am not blaiming anyone for the pain especially not you. Please just read below...
9220 jonronson2002 Send Email Jul 7, 2009
6:31 am
Hello, I hope this finds you well. I'm a UK author, and I'm currently researching my new book, which will include a short section on prosopagnosia. I was...
9221 jonronson2002 Send Email Jul 7, 2009
6:31 am
Hello, I hope this finds you well. I'm a UK author, and I'm currently researching my new book, which will include a short section on prosopagnosia. I was...
9222 Shae
blueskygyrl Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
6:34 am
Yes, I use voices. I am pretty good with recognizing a voice, though I find it harder on the phone than in person. Shae (Sent from my iPhone) On Jun 26, 2009,...
9223 Jo Livingston
fiatbertone2 Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
6:58 am
Anybody with prosopagnosia who reads this, can you please say whether you can use the sounds of peoples voices to identify them. That may help identify how...
9224 bikebiddy@...
bikebiddy Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
7:33 am
Hi Rob I have been faceblind all my life. Strangely I have improved since moving to New Zealand - so that is very weird. I am hopeless with both voices and...
9225 Bonnie
bonnieinthemist Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
9:47 am
I use voices to identify people. Voice is one of my primary clues who people are. My prosopagnosia is congenital. ~Bonnie - - - - - - - Anybody with...
9226 Bonnie
bonnieinthemist Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
10:29 am
...I was wondering was about the occasions in which the loved ones or neighbours of workmates of sufferers ever get really offended that they're not...
9227 Delila
bastard12363 Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
11:38 am
... From: "robcross555&quot; <robcross555@...> ... *Rarely. My proso is congenital. D....
9229 Barry Wainwright
bnwainwright Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
2:00 pm
I am just the reverse - I find it easier to use the voice to identify a phone caller than a person face to face. I have always put this down to the extra...
9230 daniel palmeri
palmeridj Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
3:38 pm
I use voice recognition big time.  That cues me on who the person is if I see them outside of where I would usually see them and expect to see them. ... From:...
9231 daniel palmeri
palmeridj Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
3:43 pm
Stuff like that happened to me 20 years ago when I was in college where people were upset because they would say hi to me and I didnt realize they were them. ...
9232 vcreek2002 Send Email Jul 7, 2009
5:04 pm
I am so sorry for your pain and your suffering. Your post touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes. I will explain myself a little. Until I was 36, I...
9233 vcreek2002 Send Email Jul 7, 2009
5:07 pm
Rob, I don't recognize voices very well. I grew up in KY and now live in the Midwest. When I first moved here, on my first day of listening to a radio talk...
9234 daniel palmeri
palmeridj Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
5:19 pm
  With radio I recognize voices.  Rather recently off of cable I was hearing some commercial on TV and I recognized the voice---not the face---but the...
9235 Shae
blueskygyrl Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
7:28 pm
Was it Elliot? I am in NoVa. Shae (Sent from my iPhone) On Jul 7, 2009, at 1:19 PM, daniel palmeri <palmeridj@...> wrote: With radio I recognize voices....
9237 Michelle Akers
michellewxyz Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
10:20 pm
... Hi -- Guess this is my intro as well, 'cause I've just been lurking up till now -- I'm 54 and have mild-ish face blindness (57% on the online test) --...
9238 D
chat_tnchip Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
10:45 pm
Mine is congenital. My voice recognition is about the same as my face recognition. I can recognize strange or unique voices or speach patterns - similar to...
9239 D
chat_tnchip Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
11:06 pm
Thanks Vivian... I am so glad I have this site. Your explaination of course made sense... I just do not come from a world of support. I come from just the...
9240 Steena Chamberlain
steenahi Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
11:09 pm
I'm terrible with voices, and my prosopagnosia is congenital. From: faceblind@yahoogroups.com [mailto:faceblind@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of robcross555 Sent:...
9241 Angela Gunn
mail_ag Send Email
Jul 7, 2009
11:28 pm
I'm good with voices and find them slightly more useful than faces for identification purposes. My prosopagnosia was acquired very early (<1yr). - Angela G....
9243 bonnieinthemist Send Email Jul 8, 2009
5:19 am
Some one wrote of environmental things to recognize people. How can you do that when the location of meeting with people changes? I attend a weekly class in a...
9244 Michelle ROMERO
dauphinemich... Send Email
Jul 8, 2009
7:35 am
Yes, a person's voice is definitely one of the 'clues&#39; I use!   The lady in red is fresh as a daisy when the town is in bed ________________________________ ...
9246 vcreek2002 Send Email Jul 8, 2009
4:11 pm
Another tactic: I make a seating chart in classes or group meetings. Since I forget names--especially under pressure--I just sit and write everyone's name...
9247 vcreek2002 Send Email Jul 8, 2009
4:27 pm
Hi Jon-- This incident doesn't really qualify as as "notorious&quot; but it is funny. I have read a lot of crime and espionage fiction my entire life and I always...
9248 vcreek2002 Send Email Jul 8, 2009
4:38 pm
Hi All, A few years ago I took up "star gazing." My goal was to find every constellation visible in my area that I had the ability to see. I realized that...
9249 Steph
harlownetball Send Email
Jul 8, 2009
5:32 pm
My voice recognition is okay. Not great and not terrible but if anything slightly worse than average. If I think I've identified a person then I can tell if...
9250 Delila
bastard12363 Send Email
Jul 8, 2009
6:21 pm
... From: "vcreek2002&quot; <vcreek2002@...> ... That has happened to me at work (retail) when I was waiting on one customer, got side-tracked, then returned...
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