[dillywho]

Did any of you happen to see 60 Minutes last night about Facial Blindness? Very interesting. It is just now being recognized by the medical community.

For those of you who didn't, it was about people, who for some neurological disorder (which has not been pinpointed, yet), cannot recognize anyone's face. One guy cannot even recognize his own face in the mirror at times. He has to go feature by feature and when he sees that the face has really big ears on the sides, he then knows it's him. People with this disorder can't even recognize their own children or spouses except by other means such as voice, how they walk, etc. They said that this would also explain why normal people often feel slighted (feel that they have been "high-hatted") or think that someone is being snobbish when they don't speak to them.

On the other hand, they also presented some who have just the opposite problem (if you can call it a problem sometimes) of remembering every face they have ever seen and can even recognize them from their childhood photos.

All if all, a very fascinating program. If you have access to online replays, I think you will find it very interesting.