So, one of the things which has niggled at me for a long time, lurking in the back of my head, is whether I had some degree of face blindness. Why this came about is that I often have trouble picking friends out of a crowd – sometimes using clothing as cues. Frankly, I have trouble looking for most things – at work I’ll quite often walk straight past the, for example orange lunch-box-sized Blood Sugar Monitoring equipment boxes, while looking for them. But I don’t seem to be alone in that. And wandering around the house looking for something which is in plain view is a traditional hobby of mine.
More tellingly, in the hospital I’ll meet patients I’ve looked after and be vaguely aware that I might have seen them before, but often be completely unable to place them.
At any rate, I saw this link on boing boing and thought I’d give it a go. I scored a massive 64%. The average ‘normal’ result is around 80%. So I possibly have some degree of prosopagnosia, which would explain much and makes me feel both better (about the fact I can’t always recognise people) and worse (damnit, my brain’s broken in yet *another* way).
And, in other useless fracking brain news, I forgot to ring somewhere (time-dependent) for my wife. Bollocks.
