Jen,
don't get your hopes up...
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
le nubian - Jul 21, 2012 9:08:35 am PDT #9936 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Jul 21, 2012 11:21:14 am PDT #9937 of 11998
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sumi, according to Oliver Sacks, yes. It can be completely mystifying.
Okay, that's just weird. I went to the wiki page, to be sure: [link] and apparently Oliver Sacks is face blind, and didn't actually realise it until after he'd studied it. Like, after after.
I have this weird panic that I'm face blind, that a family member will pick me up at the airport and I won't recognise them--like, a parent.
I have no idea why this has bothered me for years, but it does, every Christmas, like clockwork.
No, I've never actually had any difficulty with facial recognition, especially with immediate family. It's kinda fucked up,really.
Scrappy - Jul 21, 2012 1:29:47 pm PDT #9938 of 11998
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Me, too, ita! I thought I was the only one.
JenP - Jul 21, 2012 2:02:09 pm PDT #9939 of 11998
Yeah, I've heard Oliver Sacks talk about it before, and there was a TAL or Radio LabI show about a couple, and the guy was face blind, and it was kind of wild.
The show is not thrilling, but I like Whatshisname. Where have I seen the woman who plays the FBI agent?
(edited for one too many "yeah"s)
§ ita § - Jul 21, 2012 2:08:00 pm PDT #9940 of 11998
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think she was the chick whose brain was on drugs, which means she was in one of those teen movies where there's a bet and a girl does from quirky to hottie, and everyone learns the real meaning of hormones! Yay!
Seriously, Scrappy, how do I make it go away? I hate arriving at the airport in case they're going to get all the way right up to me and I won't notice or something. My father used to meet me at the plane door, which was good, because he was alone, so I never had to think about it. But now, he's like normal, and stuff.
Yet...never actually happened.
Amy - Jul 21, 2012 2:11:56 pm PDT #9941 of 11998
Because books.
I freak out all the time that I can't call up faces perfectly in memory. But in person, it's never happened. Although NOW I AM SCARED IT WILL, THANKS.
Was Perception at all worth watching? I like Eric Whatshisname (well, maybe not that much, I guess) but I'm tired of the "socially maladjusted genius solves crimes" thing. Is it more than that? Is he worth it?
Scrappy - Jul 21, 2012 2:17:58 pm PDT #9942 of 11998
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I have never made it go away, but when it happens I do say sternly to myself, "Dude, you're old and you have NEVER forgotten a face yet. Get over yourself."
JenP - Jul 21, 2012 2:18:46 pm PDT #9943 of 11998
I feel like she played someone crazy cakes on the most recent thing I've seen her in. I shall IMDB her.
Amy, it's not so good. But I'm still watching the second ep. I dunno.
Jesse - Jul 21, 2012 2:19:39 pm PDT #9944 of 11998
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I freak out all the time that I can't call up faces perfectly in memory. But in person, it's never happened. Although NOW I AM SCARED IT WILL, THANKS.
Ditto, and ditto. Although I would not say mine rises to "freak out." But I do wonder if I'll recognize people and I always do. Recognition, not recall!
ION, why oh why did they put a sick cat in Suits???
JenP - Jul 21, 2012 2:29:11 pm PDT #9945 of 11998
Hmm. Last thing I saw her as apparently, was as Shawn's girlfriend on Psych for several eps. I'm still trying to sort out what I'm seeing when I think of her as playing someone homicidally nuts. She must remind me of someone else? This is going to bug me.