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hollydolly

hollydolly

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Got a hidden secret ? Hiding your light under a Bushel?

Got a famous relative ?.. a secret that no-one knows or you've just never thought to mention here.. .. come and tell us ..:D

I'll start .. I have a condition called.. Prosopagnosia ( Face Dylsexia )– which literally means 'not knowing faces' – Sufferers, who may not have any other problems with their memory, find it hard, or even impossible, to identify a person's face.

It's something I've lived with all of my life.. that I can recall..

I really don't recognise people if I see them out of the context that I know them,,

For example, I would recognise my teacher in school.. but not in the street... I only recognise people if I've seen them literally dozens of times or more.. but even then if a period of time has lapsed since I last saw them,, could be as little as 6 months.. I don't recognise them by their face.. but oddly I recognise everyone by the way they walk..

I never knew my own child.. even going to collect her from school I was always in a panic in case I didn't find her.. but she always saw me first thank goodness.. Even to this day, if I go to meet her at a pre-arranged place ( ie not her home or mine ).. then she has to call out ''mum'' or speak in some way or I don't recognise her
 

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I once did a bullfight, not a very big bull, but it was real.

I was at a conference in San Diego and we took a trip to Tijuana for a bull fight demonstration. They asked for a volunteer from the audience to give it a try, I was "volunteered" by the people I was with, but had too many margaritas to have the sense to say know.

The first pass was quite terrifying, the matador told me he'd stay with me, but as the "bull" started charging he backed away laughing... However I soon discovered that the bull was only focused on the cape, not me, so it worked.

Pictures attached as evidence, it was a few year back, before my hair... sun bleached? And a few pounds heavier, but that is me. One of my friends commented that he had never seen a bull so small or a matador so big. The little bull was not harmed in the process. Maybe it was really a calf.
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When I was a few months old, I became very ill. Had siezures and almost died. Drs could not figure out why. I was put on meds until age 2-3. Never had another. Some time later my parents learned that there was an issue with the formula I was on....and many babies became ill. It was lacking in some nutrients we needed, or something.
Years later my dad told me he wished there were class action suits back then, as I would have a lot of money.
On a side note..when I was about 15 I was starting a new doctor. My mom came with me to my first visit to help me explain my medical history. Doctor started to write Epileptic into my chart. She went all mama bear on him and told him I was NOT epileptic, had never been diagnosed as such and she would NOT allow that to go into my chart...as she knew it would follow me
 
Alligatorob said:
You are the only person I know of with that. I think you mentioned it once before. Very strange, do you have problems recognizing other things?
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... not really... just faces... but I do have another issue which is Synaesthesia , where every word , in my head is in a colour.... some people who have this syndrome see numbers in colours or individual letters, but I see actual words.. particualrly common words like the days of the week..

They seem to believe .. not sure they've proved it yet, but they think these things particularly the former could be caused by a stroke, or some kind of brain damage... Given I was dropped on my head from the top of a flight of stairs when I was 14 months I wonder if that caused it.. I'll never know..
 
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hollydolly said:
... not really... just faces... but I do have another issue which is Synaesthesia , where every word , in my head is in a colour.... some people who have this syndrome see numbers in colours or individual letters, but I see actual words.. particualrly common words like the days of the week..
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Interesting, the color/word association sounds like it could be kind of fun. Are the colors always the same for the same words? For example is Monday always the same color? Do you see a particular color when you see people's names?

Not recognizing faces is certainly an inconvenience. I guess you learn to live with it, but as you say you'd make a poor eye witness...

The brain is a complex thing.
 
Alligatorob said:
Interesting, the color/word association sounds like it could be kind of fun. Are the colors always the same for the same words? For example is Monday always the same color? Do you see a particular color when you see people's names?

Not recognizing faces is certainly an inconvenience. I guess you learn to live with it, but as you say you'd make a poor eye witness...

The brain is a complex thing.
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Yes the words are always .. and always have been the same colour, that never changes.. so when I think of a word or someone says a word, I immediately see it in my mind in colour..
 
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just to add, I;ve always worried about witnessing a crime and having to pick someone out of a Police line-up, cuz I would get it completely wrong..
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Yes, you would make a terrible eye witness. What you could do to help is to remember the color of hair, eyes, height, how dressed, tattoos, style of hair or bald, any facial hair, jewelry and if he/she had a vehicle what type, suv, sedan, pickup, make, model, color, license plate number, any bulbs burned out and which way they were headed and how many in vehicle. Those are all helpful cues.
 
Marie5656 said:
When I was a few months old, I became very ill. Had siezures and almost died. Drs could not figure out why. I was put on meds until age 2-3. Never had another. Some time later my parents learned that there was an issue with the formula I was on....and many babies became ill. It was lacking in some nutrients we needed, or something.
Years later my dad told me he wished there were class action suits back then, as I would have a lot of money.
On a side note..when I was about 15 I was starting a new doctor. My mom came with me to my first visit to help me explain my medical history. Doctor started to write Epileptic into my chart. She went all mama bear on him and told him I was NOT epileptic, had never been diagnosed as such and she would NOT allow that to go into my chart...as she knew it would follow me
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None of my business, but I’m going to ask anyway, we’re you bottle fed?
 
Alligatorob said:
I once did a bullfight, not a very big bull, but it was real.

I was at a conference in San Diego and we took a trip to Tijuana for a bull fight demonstration. They asked for a volunteer from the audience to give it a try, I was "volunteered" by the people I was with, but had too many margaritas to have the sense to say know.

The first pass was quite terrifying, the matador told me he'd stay with me, but as the "bull" started charging he backed away laughing... However I soon discovered that the bull was only focused on the cape, not me, so it worked.

Pictures attached as evidence, it was a few year back, before my hair... sun bleached? And a few pounds heavier, but that is me. One of my friends commented that he had never seen a bull so small or a matador so big. The little bull was not harmed in the process. Maybe it was really a calf.
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Oh, wow. We have a matador among us. Oh, wait, that’s a calf isn’t it?
 
Alligatorob said:
I once did a bullfight, not a very big bull, but it was real.

I was at a conference in San Diego and we took a trip to Tijuana for a bull fight demonstration. They asked for a volunteer from the audience to give it a try, I was "volunteered" by the people I was with, but had too many margaritas to have the sense to say know.

The first pass was quite terrifying, the matador told me he'd stay with me, but as the "bull" started charging he backed away laughing... However I soon discovered that the bull was only focused on the cape, not me, so it worked.

Pictures attached as evidence, it was a few year back, before my hair... sun bleached? And a few pounds heavier, but that is me. One of my friends commented that he had never seen a bull so small or a matador so big. The little bull was not harmed in the process. Maybe it was really a calf.
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That bullfight was amazing! Just going out there and doing it took courage, no matter the size of the bull! I have heard that they focus on the cape, and you just have to move out of their way. What an experience! Thanks for sharing the photos!
 
We must be related, @hollydolly! My DNA test does say that I have a hard time recognizing faces. One time, when my husband and I were walking in Washington, D.C., he noticed a famous politician who was crossing the street and pointed him out to me. I, for the life of me, could not place the face to the person, although I had seen him on T.V. so many times. I was frustrated. Another time, my son noticed Andrew Rieu at a Whole Foods Market (near D.C.) and although I saw him and knew who he was, it was difficult for me to place a name.

My DNA test also says that I have perfect pitch. So some things are genetic.
 
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