Breaking News on Face Blindness!
From the New York Times article mentioned in the previous post:
Face blindness differs from pervasive cognitive disorders like autism because it usually involves only one specific symptom. Still, face blindness is sometimes accompanied by other problems, especially difficulty in finding one’s way around…
OK, if you know me, you’re rolling around on the floor, laughing, at this point, because I am not only famously face-blind; I am famous for getting lost while driving. I literally was briefly lost three times while driving today:
(1) Driving to my good friend and carpool partner, Industry Figure Larry Helmerich’s house, where he has lived for 15 years,
(2) Driving to Alcatel, where I have worked for 9 years,
(3) Driving to lunch at a place where we have eaten regularly for 9 years.
For many years, I rode bicycles with my good friend, Industry Figure John Blackburn, and he laughed when he read this post: “I thought of the number of times after our rides when I saw your car sail past the restaurant where we were supposed to be having our post-ride breakfast.”
We always ate at the same restaurant. I had driven there hundreds of times. Still could sail right past it.
Humans have got funny old brains, and that’s the truth.
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