Movie : builds up tension with a person shrouded in shadows
My faceblind self : OOO I WONDER WHO IT IS!
Movie : Dramatically flashes a spot light on that person.
My faceblind self : OOO I WONDER WHO IT IS!
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#yes this #prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag
Me: *takes selfie w/o glasses*
Brain: …so, who the fuck is that?
Me: That’s you without glasses.
Brain: That sounds fake, but okay.
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#prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag #sooo muuuch #fucking no-glasses rules on ID pictures #whenever I present ID part of me’s always expecting they’ll reject me #on the grounds that I bear less resemblance to my ID pic than I do to a random white brunette off the street
Dyscalculia: Dyscalculia is difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, and learning facts in mathematics. It is generally seen as a specific developmental disorder.
Prosopagnosia: an inability to recognize the faces of familiar people, typically as a result of damage to the brain. (”face blindness”)
Alexithymia: an inability to identify and understand emotions and their subtleties and textures. (”emotional blindness”)
Alexithymia added by me!
~James
Actually, most prosopagnosics are born with it. (I know that study’s pretty small, but I knew of it off the top of my head, and it is proof of concept.) I’m not sure whether the crossover point has happened yet, but certainly early on most people known to have prosopagnosia got it from brain damage; however, that’s because those people had memories of not being faceblind to compare their current state to, so they knew what they were missing. Congenital prosopagnosics are far more likely than acquired ones to have a “so that’s what that is!” moment.
Also, it’s not all-or-nothing. Only the most severe prosopagnosia causes a total inability to recognise faces; the rest of us “just” take months or years of exposure to learn a given face as well as normal people would learn it immediately, and have a much greater tendency to forget faces over time.
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#prosopagnosia #reply via reblog #the more you know #tales from the prosopagnosia tag
the troubles of a person with prosopagnosia and anxiety:
*sees post with pictures of very popular actor they look at pictures of all day*
*tags it with name of very popular actor*
*almost clicks the reblog button*
*checks pictures five times to make sure the pictures actually portray very famous actor and not someone who looks a bit like him*
*feels ashamed because they literally look at pictures of very famous actor all day so it’s very embarrassing not to be sure if it’s really him*
Would you like advice or do you just want to vent? I don’t want to go barging in here with tips if that wouldn’t be appropriate.
it’s okay! i wouldn’t mind advice :)
I’ve found the TagViewer extension for XKit to be very helpful for this situation. To give a relatively recent example (that I’m not sure whether I ever actually reblogged, but it’s still a good example of the process):
1. See gifset of person who may or may not be Taylor Swift playing with small fluffy animals.
2. Press TagViewer button on post.
3. Scroll through the list of reblogs with tags and what tags they used. See that the majority of reblogs with any tags at all contain the tag “taylor swift”, “tswift”, “tay-tay”, or other variations thereupon. See that nobody has tagged it with a name other than Taylor Swift.
4. Feel much more confident that the picture is of Taylor Swift now that you’ve gotten dozens of concurring opinions.
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#prosopagnosia #reply via reblog #tales from the prosopagnosia tag
the troubles of a person with prosopagnosia and anxiety:
*sees post with pictures of very popular actor they look at pictures of all day*
*tags it with name of very popular actor*
*almost clicks the reblog button*
*checks pictures five times to make sure the pictures actually portray very famous actor and not someone who looks a bit like him*
*feels ashamed because they literally look at pictures of very famous actor all day so it’s very embarrassing not to be sure if it’s really him*
Would you like advice or do you just want to vent? I don’t want to go barging in here with tips if that wouldn’t be appropriate.
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#prosopagnosia #reply via reblog #tales from the prosopagnosia tag
Even though I love this idea of Gallifreyans as a species having prosopagnosia, I’m still not sure if it’s actually true, since the Doctor has the habit of commenting his face and it’s distinct features (the chin, the eyebrows, i.e.) relatively often. I don’t know much about prosopagnosia and therefore I’m not sure whether it’s possible for people having/suffering from it to make such remarks. Does anybody know something more about that?
We can totally do that! In fact, things like distinctive eyebrows or sticky-out ears (the focus of Nine’s comments) are a big part of how we tell people apart.
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#prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag #reply via reblog #the more you know #(still haven’t watched The Caretaker by the way but have now watched Time Heist)
gabrielsaunteredvaguelydownwards:
Here’s link to the fanfic where Carlos has face blindness: http://archiveofourown.org/works/940351
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#Welcome to Night Vale #Cecil/Carlos #prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag #he wore the furry pants so that Carlos could know it was him #oh my god that’s so sweet #headcanon accepted
My first gif! I spent way more time on this than I probably should have. Anywho, I put this together from a Brain Games episode on National Geographics (Episode name is called “Patterns” for those of you who are interested).
I want your feed back- when could you tell who this was the first time you saw the gif? Was it the 2nd text “Did you get it yet?”, or was it not until the 3rd or last text that you could tell? Please be honest.
My prediction- those with Prosopagnosia figure it out faster than those who are neurotypical (NTs). Why is this? Because we are used to piecing it together with less information, where NTs require more facial information before they know. Perhaps we just found the evolutionary advantage to prosopagnosia?
I suspected it might be Abraham Lincoln when I could only see around the edge, but the more they revealed, the less sure I got, until by the end I was convinced it wasn’t him. You tagged the post “Abraham Lincoln”, so I guess I should’ve gone with my first thought.
I note that when I took one of those online facial recognition quizzes, I had a similar experience with Barack Obama: my first thought was that it was him, but then I thought “no, that can’t be him, he isn’t that old” and failed the question (like I did every other question on that quiz). I’d forgotten how much politics ages you. (Though in Lincoln’s case, the “no, that can’t be him” was because this face looks too wide to be him.)
(Who says there has to be an evolutionary advantage? All a trait really has to do to stick around is not get you killed too often.)
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#prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag #reply via reblog
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My first ProsopAnonymous video is up! Tell me what you think!
Note: these will get better over time. I have a friend of mine working on an intro song for the show, so I’ll be able to add one by episode 2 or 3
It’s promising, but I suggest you try talking a bit more slowly. Your speech struck me as kind of rushed in a lot of places. This isn’t a conversation: nobody’s going to butt in and cut you off if you give them the slightest pause. (I swear I read somewhere that people actually do expect recordings to speak more slowly than live people, but I have no idea where.)
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#reply via reblog #prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag
The dream itself was kinda ridiculous. I was among a group of magicians who was having to battle an invading magician army from taking over this labyrinth-like town, and battle was supposed to happen outside the city gates which were at least 30 feet tall. However, the gates were set up on an incomplete grid just outside the town, and in my dream, it made complete sense that if someone was having trouble defending one side, we just moved it further back and defended it there (??? I don’t get it either). Anyway, we took our positions on top of the gate, balancing on what was ultimately this fence only a couple inches across, and somehow expecting to throw magic down at the invaders? Except the invaders wound up coming up to us, and I was forced down to ground-level where the invading force was closing in.
I ran off to the side, to this little shack and on my way, I nearly ran into a woman who had bleach blond dread locks, who I didn’t recognise. Looking at her, I couldn’t decide if she was friend or foe, but when I didn’t attack, she kept running. The battle was hardly fierce, mostly just people running around, and I can’t be sure if I actually saw a face, or just dread locks and told myself a face was somewhere in there because it was supposed to be. Either way, in the dream itself, I suddenly felt overwhelmed because I literally couldn’t tell if anyone running around me as I went into the shack to hide was on my side or the invading side, and I didn’t want to attack anyone in case I guessed wrong. What if someone attacked me and they just couldn’t tell if we were on the same side or not, and I defended myself and killed them?
Worst of all, when I entered the shack, the man inside told me to get back out there and defend the town, but I couldn’t because I no longer knew who I was defending, and had to try to explain my perceived cowardice. I wound up waking up half way through my crap explanation, but I tried for several minutes to go back to sleep so I could finish telling him why. Sometimes dreams really suck.
And that is why we invented military uniforms.
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#after a while of population growth battles get to be large enough that even non-prosos can’t keep track of who’s on their side #prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag #reply via reblog #embarrassment squick
Brinens and Things 