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Dec. 18th, 2001 03:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hannibalvDecember 17, 2001
Once again, a sense of dissatisfied melancholia pervaded most of today.
Word XP doesn't want to let me use "dissatisfied" as an adjective in that sentence, but I can't think of a more accurate word.
Work's getting odd-there's trouble brewing. I was called in to give an account of events from yesterday, which I did honestly, and to the best of my abilityÂ…sorta. I'd talked with one of the principals about what had happened and thereby had that person's viewpoint of things I couldn't have known. I left that out of my report.
P will, barring unforeseen circumstances, be released from the hospital tomorrow, after dialysis.
Shopping to do, still. And dread. Always the dread.
Today's Link Of The Day is about prosopagnosia, or faceblindness. Faceblindness is the inability to recognize faces. Now, I'm colorblind, so I know a little about what faceblind people must go through, but I can't really know. It's got to be utterlyÂ…problematic at times. To get something of a real grip on it, head to http://www.prosopagnosia.com/
JHR
12/18/2001 3:48 AM
Once again, a sense of dissatisfied melancholia pervaded most of today.
Word XP doesn't want to let me use "dissatisfied" as an adjective in that sentence, but I can't think of a more accurate word.
Work's getting odd-there's trouble brewing. I was called in to give an account of events from yesterday, which I did honestly, and to the best of my abilityÂ…sorta. I'd talked with one of the principals about what had happened and thereby had that person's viewpoint of things I couldn't have known. I left that out of my report.
P will, barring unforeseen circumstances, be released from the hospital tomorrow, after dialysis.
Shopping to do, still. And dread. Always the dread.
Today's Link Of The Day is about prosopagnosia, or faceblindness. Faceblindness is the inability to recognize faces. Now, I'm colorblind, so I know a little about what faceblind people must go through, but I can't really know. It's got to be utterlyÂ…problematic at times. To get something of a real grip on it, head to http://www.prosopagnosia.com/
JHR
12/18/2001 3:48 AM
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Holy crap.
I don't have face blindness, but by following links I learned that my inability to process geographical concepts has a NAME.
I have topographic agnosia. Holy crap.
I can't convert a map to real-world places. I can't do geometry the "right" way. I can't estimate passage of time very well. I get terrified if I have to go someplace I've never been. And apparently, my inability to write an outline for a paper before I've actually visualized the paper in its entirety might even be related.
Not only that, but face blindness might be tied to CAPD; place blindness is processed in a section of the brain very close to face blindness; and I've long suspected that I have CAPD.
In fact, there's even a remote chance that the whole damn thing might be connected to my very mild OCD, which has some factors similar to Asperger's syndrome, which often pairs with face blindness...
Geez, this is freaking me out. I wonder if there might be any connection with hypoglycemia. That'd take the cake.
--Strange/Dave