You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know : A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness (Paperback)

from amybrojo

This memoir about a woman who, as an adult, realizes she cannot recognize faces reads like a novel. She jumps back and forth from stories of her childhood to her life in the time frame when she is discovering that she is not crazy, she has face blindness. I enjoyed it.

from ealaindraoi

Sometimes memoirs from people with difficult childhood's read like self-pity, sometimes they read like self-congratulations but this book reads like neither. Heather never seemed to be aware that her life with her possibly schizophrenic mother, her very unusual father and her face blindness was o...

from pwagner2

This book could have been 2 books. I think she could have written one about her family and one about her face blindness. It just felt too jammed with stuff. All of it interesting, but maybe if it was 2 books, it could have gone more in depth about her family weirdness, and then her face blindness...

from madhatter22

Heather Sellers has face blindness, a condition that makes it impossible for her to recognize faces. Amazingly, she didn't realize she had it until she was well into her 30s. The condition is so rare that even after she diagnosed it herself, she had a hard time finding a doctor who would believe ...

from bookchickdi

Heather Sellers can't recognize faces. Not just faces of people she knows casually, but her coworkers, her family, her boyfriend and his sons. She has had this problem her entire life, but didn't know she had a problem; she thought everyone processed faces the way she did. Perhaps Heather didn't ...