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#184443 04/22/09 05:01 PM
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Oh my goodness! I have that! Is there a support group? Is there a convention?

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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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ProsoNAMEosia

The root for face in Greek is prosop- and for name it is onomat-, so the word could be: onomatagnosia. Maybe.


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Yes, welcome, I have eosprosopagnosia, the early in the morning mirror variety.

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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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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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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.


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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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Surprise??


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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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