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lolprosopagnosia:

internetkatze:

I’m listening to this MIT lecture about visual perception while doing my inking try-out, and there’s this part where he shows pictures of people’s faces upside-down, but with one or two facial features distorted (for example, mouth and eyes are still right-side-up while the rest of the face is upside down) and saying things like, “you can’t tell there’s anything wrong with these faces until I flip them, because your brain is not used to seeing people upside down.”

But I immediately recognized what was wrong with them before he even mentioned anything! I was like, that mouth looks weird D: and then he flipped it and I was like HA I WAS RIGHT

but what really makes this interesting is that I’m faceblind and I can’t recognize people’s faces normally. But I can tell when the features are wrong upside down. ….what does that say about me!? Should I sign up for research or something……?

That’s actually pretty cool, and now that you mention it, I’ve always picked that out immediately as well.

Anyone else with prosopagnosia run into this?

For what it’s worth, the first time I saw one of those pictures I didn’t notice the flipped mouth until the face was turned right-side-up. (I think now that I know these pictures are out there and might be encountered I’d be much more likely to realise what it is.)

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i-sauntered-vaguely-downwards:

 

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Ah well. Maybe a cross-country road trip someday? I’ll tell you about my immigration experience if you want, though I was 8-13 yrs (took ages for the US to let us out). 5 years this month and I still prah-cess my proh-duce, not the other way around.

For sure! I will collect all the tumblr people. I’m sure someone will know how to drive. Ahahaha. I always wanted to do a proper road trip anyway.

I would love to hear about your experience, if you’re willing, for real. That’d be freaking awesome info. But aww the US didn’t want to let you out? Ass holes.

ahahaha

I dunno I’m being silly now. Here have a smily face. :)

– Leon

Some tips, tricks, and observations, in roughly chronological order:

Why do fingerprint records expire if you still have the same fingers?

Relatedly, why do they even have time to expire? Is it really that hard for whatever Americans are in charge of these things to tell whatever Canadians are in charge of these things that as far as they know we’re not criminals?

If you must be diagnosed with breast cancer (or any other cancer), be sure it doesn’t happen until the day after your official health exam to check if you’re too much of a burden or something. If it wasn’t known* at the time of the exam, they are not allowed to take it into account. (Yeah, we got in on a technicality. Well, Mom got in on a technicality, but we wouldn’t have gone without her. (Don’t worry, she’s been fine for six years, and they declare you Officially Cured after five.) Besides, by the time we got here her treatment was mostly over, so it wasn’t even particularly burdensome.)

*But it was strongly suspected.

You’re supposed to show up at ServiceOntario (or local equivalent) to get your health card within three months of moving, not after. If you show up after 92 days thinking it’s about as early as possible, they will give you a health card, but it will require significantly more awkwardness and line-waiting while they figure out what to do with you.

Cheez-Its in Canada are rarely stumbled across, and when they say “Limited Time Only” on the box they mean it. Live near enough to the border for occasional shopping trips (we go roughly four times a year, 2.5 hours to Buffalo each way) or prepare to go without.

This is probably not at all relevant to you, but if you’re a minor when you apply for citizenship (even if you’re, oh, 17 years and 10 months *whistles innocently*) you don’t take the knowledge test. (Which means I don’t really know much about it, as it’s Not My Problem.)

Our permanent resident cards expire next month, and we haven’t finished the citizenship process (or prah-cess) yet. I’m not sure how we fix that. Should probably ask.

You’d better hope there are ways of renewing your American passport that involve closer places to Manitoba than Toronto, or you’ve got a hell of a ways to go. (On the other hand, once you’ve gone that far Waterloo Region isn’t that much further. We have apple fritters! (Well, I actually like the Kitchener Market’s apple fritter shop better. The fritters taste about the same, but they also sell lángos, which is even more delicious.)) In Toronto at least, you can only start the renewing-your-passport between the hours of…I think it was 8 AM and 10:30 AM (I know 10:30 was the latest), which sucks for our schedule and probably yours as well. (We’ve made the appointment, but it hasn’t happened yet.)

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Abigail’s Song is creepy after season 6.

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maidofculmore:

When you’re alone, silence is all you know.
When you’re alone, silence is all you know
Let in the noise and let it grow.

When you’re alone, silence is all you see
When you’re alone, silence is all you’ll be
Give me your hand and come to me.

When you are here, music is all around.
When you are near, music is all around.
Open your eyes, don’t make a sound.

Let in the shadow, let in the shadow,
Let in the light of your bright shadow.

Let in the shadow, let in the shadow.
Let in the light of your bright shadow.

Let in the light.
Let in the light.
Let in the light of your sweet shadow.

When you’re alone, oh,
Silence is all you know.
Silence is all,
Silence is all around.
Silence is all
Silence is all around

But absolutely gorgeous.

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drunkcherson:

“I am human”

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I get the feeling it wasn’t planned this way.

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lolprosopagnosia:

brin-bellway:

I don’t think they’d assume the viewer is going to be a: up on Whovian news and b: faceblind.

But I am, and so for me it follows a pretty standard plot twist progression.

First, Hmm, she looks a bit like Jenna-Louise Coleman.

Shortly after, Have I heard Jenna-Louise’s voice? Did it sound like this? I think it might have.

Shortly after that, She talks so fast. Didn’t they say that was one of the things they really noticed about her? How she talked so fast he could hardly keep up with her?

At the end of the episode, watching the credits:

Oswin

Jenna-Louise Coleman

Ha! Now what does this mean for the future plot?

YOU ARE ACTUALLY ME.

I had to go google her and study what her hair line looked like so that I could figure out if it was her or not in the episode.

Was that after failing to find it on IMDB? Because I’d planned to go ask IMDB for Oswin’s actress after the episode, my standard plan with such suspicions (but then I saw the name in the credits, so I didn’t have to), but looking for the page to link I see they don’t have a full cast list yet.

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I get the feeling it wasn’t planned this way.

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I don’t think they’d assume the viewer is going to be a: up on Whovian news and b: faceblind.

But I am, and so for me it follows a pretty standard plot twist progression.

First, Hmm, she looks a bit like Jenna-Louise Coleman.

Shortly after, Have I heard Jenna-Louise’s voice? Did it sound like this? I think it might have.

Shortly after that, She talks so fast. Didn’t they say that was one of the things they really noticed about her? How she talked so fast he could hardly keep up with her?

At the end of the episode, watching the credits:

Oswin

Jenna-Louise Coleman

Ha! Now what does this mean for the future plot?

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iscallyr:

I know it’s important to a lot of beings to have reasons behind the things they identify as – spirituality, or brain chemistry, or hormones etc (and this doesn’t just apply to kin stuff either) – but I’ve just never had that? My attitude is that I am what I am, I feel this way and that’s all right.

I don’t really think it matters why I’m queer/asexual/agender/otherkin/whatever the fuck else I am, it’s not like it’s a problem that needs to be cured; to my way of thinking it’s just something that is.

kenopsia

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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.

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#the more you know #(though as a homeschooler who often went to groups that held meetings at the elementary school when it wasn’t in session) #(in my experience the proper and natural state of a school is deserted) #(sometimes I’d arrive a little early and people wouldn’t have finished leaving yet and the halls were still busy) #(and *that* was wrong)