(urth) Imputing motives

Gerry Quinn gerryq at indigo.ie
Sun Aug 15 03:29:54 PDT 2010


From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>

> I first noticed in high school that I have a slight perceptive disability. 
> In the real world I
> am not good at recognizing people's faces. I am not a complete social 
> incompetent but I notice
> that I am far more likely than other people to just not recognize certain 
> people by face. It is
> still true. An old girlfriend recently emailed me and commented on how 
> jealous my wife must be
> that I couldn't say hi to her when we were 3 feet away from each other in 
> a restaurant and had
> made eye contact. I had no idea what she was talking about. But we were 
> both in the same Indian
> restaurant at the same time.  I just didn't recognize her face, out of an 
> expected context. She
> still doesn't quite believe it is true, but it is. (I do have a jealous 
> wife though ;- ))
>
> Anyway, I just realized, perhaps it is like the sharp hearing of the 
> blind. I may be compensating for
> my poor facial recognition skill, by having advanced verbal recognition 
> skills. Perhaps it even helps
> with fictional literary characters. ;- )

Sounds just like me.  My theory is it may have something to do with my 
refusing to wear glasses as a child, though I was quite shortsighted.

- Gerry Quinn









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