The Resource You don't look like anyone I know : a true story of family, face blindness, and forgiveness, Heather Sellers
You don't look like anyone I know : a true story of family, face blindness, and forgiveness, Heather Sellers
- Summary
- An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. The author 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 recognize even her own father and mother. She feared she must be crazy. Yet it was her mother who nailed windows shut and covered them with blankets, made her daughter walk on her knees to spare the carpeting, had her practice secret words to use in the likely event of abduction. Her father went on weeklong "fishing trips" (aka benders), took in drifters, wore panty hose and bras under his regular clothes. She clung to a barely coherent story of a "normal" childhood in order to survive the one she had. That fairy tale unraveled two decades later when she took the man she would marry home to meet her parents and began to discover the truth about her family and about herself. As she came at last to trust her own perceptions, she learned the gift of perspective: that embracing the past as it is allows us to let it go. And she illuminated a deeper truth that even in the most flawed circumstances, love may be seen and felt
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 356 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594487736
- Label
- You don't look like anyone I know : a true story of family, face blindness, and forgiveness
- Title
- You don't look like anyone I know
- Title remainder
- a true story of family, face blindness, and forgiveness
- Statement of responsibility
- Heather Sellers
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. The author 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 recognize even her own father and mother. She feared she must be crazy. Yet it was her mother who nailed windows shut and covered them with blankets, made her daughter walk on her knees to spare the carpeting, had her practice secret words to use in the likely event of abduction. Her father went on weeklong "fishing trips" (aka benders), took in drifters, wore panty hose and bras under his regular clothes. She clung to a barely coherent story of a "normal" childhood in order to survive the one she had. That fairy tale unraveled two decades later when she took the man she would marry home to meet her parents and began to discover the truth about her family and about herself. As she came at last to trust her own perceptions, she learned the gift of perspective: that embracing the past as it is allows us to let it go. And she illuminated a deeper truth that even in the most flawed circumstances, love may be seen and felt
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- Title
- You don't look like anyone I know
- Summary
- An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. The author 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 recognize even her own father and mother. She feared she must be crazy. Yet it was her mother who nailed windows shut and covered them with blankets, made her daughter walk on her knees to spare the carpeting, had her practice secret words to use in the likely event of abduction. Her father went on weeklong "fishing trips" (aka benders), took in drifters, wore panty hose and bras under his regular clothes. She clung to a barely coherent story of a "normal" childhood in order to survive the one she had. That fairy tale unraveled two decades later when she took the man she would marry home to meet her parents and began to discover the truth about her family and about herself. As she came at last to trust her own perceptions, she learned the gift of perspective: that embracing the past as it is allows us to let it go. And she illuminated a deeper truth that even in the most flawed circumstances, love may be seen and felt
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 375222
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 818/.609
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3569.E5749
- LC item number
- Z46 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a true story of family, face blindness, and forgiveness
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/titleRemainder
- a true story of family, face blindness, and forgiveness
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/titleStatement
- Heather Sellers
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- You do not look like anyone I know
- You dont look like anyone I know
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/titleVariationRemainder
- a true story of family, face blindness, and forgiveness
- Label
- You don't look like anyone I know : a true story of family, face blindness, and forgiveness, Heather Sellers
- Related Authorities
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- Medical issues
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- Face perception.
- Prosopagnosia
- Sellers, Heather, 1964-
- Biography
- Women authors, American
- Dysfunctional families
- Biography.
- Prosopagnosia.
- Childhood
- Adult books for young adults
- Facing adversity
- Nervous system
- Face perception
- Diseases
- Life stories
- Personal narratives
- Related Subjects
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- Face perception.
- Life stories -- Facing adversity | Medical issues
- Childhood -- Personal narratives
- Sellers, Heather, 1964-
- Prosopagnosia
- Women authors, American -- Biography.
- Face perception
- Prosopagnosia.
- Dysfunctional families
- Adult books for young adults
- Women authors, American -- Biography
- Nervous system -- Diseases
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- Control code
- ocn535490485
- http://library.link/vocab/cover_art
- http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?UserID=EBSDVR53400&Password=CC19341&Return=1&Type=M&Value=9781594487736&erroroverride=1
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
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- Extent
- 356 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594487736
- Lccn
- 2010010228
Subject
- Face perception.
- Prosopagnosia.
- Sellers, Heather, 1964-
- Women authors, American -- Biography.
- Adult books for young adults
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- Childhood -- Personal narratives
- Dysfunctional families
- Face perception
- Life stories -- Facing adversity | Medical issues
- Nervous system -- Diseases
- Prosopagnosia
- Women authors, American -- Biography
Genre
- Biography.
- Adult books for young adults
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- Biography
- Life stories
- Personal narratives
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