tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post6766758307158574785..comments2023-08-18T19:57:30.372+10:00Comments on humanities researcher: How this face-blindness thing worksThis old world is a new worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-79438787941365266142008-09-11T11:27:00.000+10:002008-09-11T11:27:00.000+10:00I've been known to cheerfully greet people I know ...I've been known to cheerfully greet people I know believing them to be someone else entirely, who I also know. I have also been thrown completely by people thinking they know me. I tend to assume that they are right, and that I am demented. Particularly the time I was mis-recognised by someone who thought I was another woman, who is also called Kate. <BR/><BR/>A friend of my mother's had a ratherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-13902616150504987572008-09-08T12:54:00.000+10:002008-09-08T12:54:00.000+10:00Well, the further away they backed, the more of an...Well, the further away they backed, the more of an excuse you'd have for not recognising them ...Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-4499337018339711162008-09-08T12:00:00.000+10:002008-09-08T12:00:00.000+10:00Hm, I think it's probably 'wrong' to feel that 'fa...Hm, I think it's probably 'wrong' to feel that 'face-blindness' sounds a bit pejorative, but I can't help feeling that it does. On the other hand, 'prosopagnosia' is unknown enough, and Greek enough, to sound like it could well be an infection of some kind. Saying 'sorry, but I have a little prosopagnosia' might only lead to people backing away slowly! <BR/><BR/>Not that that doesn't have its David Thornbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12129481335342570688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-74413991869048854082008-09-08T11:44:00.000+10:002008-09-08T11:44:00.000+10:00Heh heh.Yes, I think this whole thing is much more...Heh heh.<BR/><BR/>Yes, I think this whole thing is much more common than we might think. I just love having a name for it, and wonder why I am persisting with 'face-blindness' when there is such a lovely Greek word for it.This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-39549050981486269282008-09-08T11:41:00.000+10:002008-09-08T11:41:00.000+10:00Could be worse. A doctor I used to work with woul...Could be worse. A doctor I used to work with would never approach or speak to someone she wasn't absolutely certain of knowing in case she'd just given them a pap smear.Zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01546885088503890394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-33846081347688941342008-09-08T08:12:00.000+10:002008-09-08T08:12:00.000+10:00At the wedding of a friend several years ago, the ...At the wedding of a friend several years ago, the father of the groom in his speech got a laugh by pointing out that one of the ushers (one of which was me) had failed to recognise the mother of the bride (who I'd met previously a handful of times) and asked her what side of the family she was from. I immediately decided it must have been me, though I had no recollection of it, because I knew theDavid Thornbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12129481335342570688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-873942428086515732008-09-07T23:55:00.000+10:002008-09-07T23:55:00.000+10:00I definitely have the out-of-context problem Pavlo...I definitely have the out-of-context problem Pavlov's Cat describes. The funniest instance was one of misrecognition out of context rather than failure to recognize someone: once in the early '90s I waved and cheerily greeted the actor Adam Sandler on a street in NYC because I thought I knew him from my university! (This was when he was still on Saturday Night Live, before he was a movie star.)Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-3908721971523745272008-09-07T21:02:00.000+10:002008-09-07T21:02:00.000+10:00It's sobering, isn't it.My own area of weakness he...It's sobering, isn't it.<BR/><BR/>My own area of weakness here is faces seen out of context. I once ran into a woman on Semaphore Road (the beach you've been to with me) whom I knew was incredibly familiar to me but I could not for the life of me put a name to the face. I'd worked closely with her in meetings at Arts SA on at least half a dozen days and had had several lengthy phone conversationsKerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.com