Memoir
You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness
2010·368 pages
A memoir of face blindness and a chaotic childhood with mentally ill parents, tracing diagnosis, hard truths, and forgiveness.
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A memoir of face blindness and a chaotic childhood with mentally ill parents, tracing diagnosis, hard truths, and forgiveness.
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An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. Heather Sellers is face-blind-that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. But she sometimes kissed a stranger, thinking he was her boyfriend, or failed to recogn...
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Adult relationship and engagement; brief mistaken-identity kiss
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Substance use
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Father's alcoholism and weeklong benders central to family chaos
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Father's cross-dressing noted among family eccentricities
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Abuse & suffering
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Childhood neglect and emotional abuse; mother's untreated schizophrenia
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