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Originally Posted by dyna mo
what i am going to do is try and get this thread back on track because i actually like the op, and my comments have been taken wrong here.
my comment that is a designer ailment discovered only recently goes to the op comment that in talking with a friend on the tele, he figures he has the ailment.
while i know eddy starts quite a few ailment threads, i had this in mind when i used squealer's post to state that it is popular to self-diagnose with these sorts of things and, as i mentioned, just like adhd.
yes, i said it was discovered recently and i meant that. it was discovered by mainstream.
if you want to gotcha me on that, feel free, or you can try and see what i was attempting to communicate.
it's risky to self-diagnose and it's also an easy excuse for behavior. i ignore my mother because i can't recognize her face was the op's example behavior.
and ftr, i like you too, squealer. not sure why you had to come out swinging in reaction to my view and replying in general to your post.
anyhoo, it was not at all my intent to derail this thread, and i apologize my comments were vague enough to be taken that way.
i was trying to bring awareness to self-diagnosing these ailments that only recently are discovered by people in the news.
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No one denies the inherent risks of self diagnosing. I don't disagree with that which is why I specifically said "you need to go see a doctor".
My reaction was to your statements that had no basis in reality while attempting to discredit everything I said which is very basic stuff.
There are no discussions of neurological brain function without discussion of those functions misfiring and the accompanying effects, disorders, diseases etc.... as that is where the vast majority of knowledge comes from - understanding what is and isn't affected by stimulating/inhibiting different areas or neurological pathways.
There are typically no comprehensive discussions of visual systems in humans without the accompanying discussion of basic neurological conditions such as Agnosia and its many forms, including obviously, Prosopagnosia as it all goes hand in hand in understanding how the entire system works and fails. It's not an "invented" disorder. It's not recently discovered and it's not, to use your made up term/diagnosis, having anything to do with "selective precog" or related to what i can assume is your misuse of the word "precognition" or precognitive experiences.
Though i've avoided trying to say it outright, this can be caused by a tumor for example. Obviously, if there is a sincere problem with recognizing faces, then it should be looked into by doctors to be safe. It's not helpful to say "this is invented" when it could be a symptom of something lethal.
I don't have anything against you at all. This is something that interests me a great deal. I simply wanted to correct the facts by making the point that it is definitely not made up. Whether he has it is another question entirely.
The fact that he included the bit about knowing people by phone is again consistent with Agnosia - indicating that if he did self diagnos himself, he had to educate himself and then add this detail which seems unlikely.
Any by the way, unless I am wrong, I believe this is commonly tested by measuring GSR (galvanic skin response - as lie detectors use) and showing pictures of faces that should be familiar and measuring your bodies response GSR to those images.