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#184443 - 04/22/09 01:01 PM Prosopagnosia
Miramichier stranger Registered: 12/01/08 Posts: 2 Loc: Miramichi, NB, Canada	Oh my goodness! I have that! Is there a support group? Is there a convention?
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#184444 - 04/22/09 02:24 PM Re: Prosopagnosia [Re: Miramichier]
WordBdey stranger Registered: 04/22/09 Posts: 1	I suffer from a variation of Prosopagnosia. noun: Inability to recognize familiar faces. I have ProsoNAMEosia: noun: Inability to remember the names of familiar faces.
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#184445 - 04/22/09 02:58 PM Re: Prosopagnosia [Re: WordBdey]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	ProsoNAMEosia The root for face in Greek is prosop- and for name it is onomat-, so the word could be: onomatagnosia. Maybe. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#184446 - 04/22/09 03:04 PM Re: Prosopagnosia [Re: Miramichier]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Yes, welcome, I have eosprosopagnosia, the early in the morning mirror variety.
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#184448 - 04/22/09 04:44 PM Re: Inability to remember the names of familiar faces. [Re: zmjezhd]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	there are, of course, a couple of names for this.. but I can't remember them. that was a good for a laugh; but actually, we have from Psych terms such as nominal aphasia or lethonomia. -joe (I suffer from lethologica) friday
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#184459 - 04/23/09 11:55 AM Re: Prosopagnosia [Re: Miramichier]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Our minds are wondrous things, aren't they? As far as I know, I don't have a brain injury, but I have always had trouble recognizing familiar faces...when I see them out of normal context. Throwing an auditory note in--I haven't yet managed to teach Hubby that at least 75% of the time he doesn't have to raise his voice after I say, "What?". It isn't that I haven't heard that he's speaking: it's that he hasn't gotten my attention off of whatever I've been focusing on before he says what he wanted me to hear. I did teach the kids, though, to say Mom?, and that then when I was looking at them I was going to take in what they were saying.
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#184461 - 04/23/09 12:03 PM Re: Prosopagnosia [Re: Jackie]
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	Originally Posted By: Jackie Throwing an auditory note in--I haven't yet managed to teach Hubby that at least 75% of the time he doesn't have to raise his voice after I say, "What?". It isn't that I haven't heard that he's speaking: it's that he hasn't gotten my attention off of whatever I've been focusing on before he says what he wanted me to hear. I did teach the kids, though, to say Mom?, and that then when I was looking at them I was going to take in what they were saying. happens to us ALL the time!! not hearing someone can be taken so personally, when it really isn't at all. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#184467 - 04/24/09 05:36 AM Re: Prosopagnosia [Re: Jackie]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Then there is the opposite of prosopagnosia; not the incapacity of recognizing familiar faces, but recognizing familiar faces that on second glance aren't. Which made me believe that, unique as we may be, many of us have a number of duplicats walking this earth. To be touched on the shoulder by someone who says : "Hi Annie", and then: "Oh sorry". Or the other way around: greeting a passer-by enthousiastically who raises astonished eyebrowes. There is no expression or word for this phenomenen as far as I know.
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#184481 - 04/24/09 07:46 PM Re: Prosopagnosia [Re: BranShea]
LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5281 Loc: Land of the Flat Water	Surprise?? _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep----
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#184482 - 04/25/09 03:59 AM Re: Prosopagnosia [Re: LukeJavan8]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	You can add embarassment, confusion, astonishment. But by now I 've fixed it in my mind that no one is unique in his/her uniqueness.
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