Leo Laporte

[Seymore4Head]

I was listening to him yesterday in the car and a guy called in that
said he was blind.
He was asking questions about using his Apple computer for video
editing.
That doesn't really add up to me.

[Smarty]

Blindness is not a binary condition. There are a wide range of deficits
including a somewhat arbitrary "legally blnd" state which differs from one
country to another. There are those whose blindness may be principally in
color perception, night time vision, peripheral vision, etc.

The bottom line is that video editing and many other tasks which rely on
vision can be performed by those individuals whose medical and / or legal
situation is accurately described as blind.

[thekma...@gmail.com]

I'm 'face-blind' - prosopagnosia in fancy
terms. I distinguish non-family members
by heights, sounds of voice, and other non-
facial cues.

[Seymore4Head]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:34:26 -0700 (PDT), thekma...@gmail.com
wrote:

So I Googled prosopagnosia. I only read the first paragraph from
wiki. It says it can affect 2.5% of the population. I have never
heard if it. Surely if it affects that much of the population, I have
probably met many people with the condition.

When you first said it, it seemed like it would be a pretty seriously
debilitating, but after thinking about it probably not so much.

I would guess you also have close friends and co workers that you can
distinguish their faces?

[Seymore4Head]

After sending this message, I was going to close the Google search
page and found this:
Notable cases
Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple[39] My geek hero

Jane Goodall
She was known to have named some of her favorite chimpanzees. If you
can't tell people apart, would you be more or less likely to be able
to tell chimpanzees apart?

[thekma...@gmail.com]

Seymore4Head:


Ironically, I can recognize most makes/models
of cars by the shape of their headlights at night,
as well as most major types of commercial jet
liners passing over our neighborhood(we're
under a flightpath that takes many of them
across to England & Europe).


What I NEED is to be able to recognize the
most basic feature of fellow human beings -
their FACES for cryin out loud! Watching
movies with me is an exercise in patience,
as I am constantly confusing similar looking
characters. And the condition is not helped
by the use of glasses.


I use the example of Hilary Duff and
Britney Spears some years ago, when
they were simultaneously on top of
their careers and on the fronts of
magazines. Until I picked the magazine
up and read the caption I was SURE
Britney was Hilary and vice versa. But
most other people, especially women,
said I must have been crazy to confuse
the two! lol