Faceblindness & A Journey To Rediscover Your Brain Midlife

About this episode

Sadie Dingfelder discusses her experience with faceblindness and how it reshaped her understanding of her brain and relationships.

Sadie Dingfelder spent decades not recognizing people who knew her and not knowing why. At 39, she found an explanation: she is faceblind. She talks with Anita about how that discovery sent her down a journalistic rabbit hole that led her to rewrite a lot of her past and come to a fundamentally new understanding of her brain. Plus, her husband Steve joins the conversation to talk about how Sadie’s new diagnoses — including having a severely deficient autobiographical memory — shape their life together. Meet the guests: - Sadie Dingfelder , science journalist and author of " Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory and Imagination " - Steven Hay , engineer and Sadie's husband Read the transcript | Review the podcast on your preferred platform Follow Embodied on Instagram Leave a message for Embodied

People in this episode

Host: Anita

Guests: Sadie Dingfelder, Steven Hay

Topics covered

• faceblindness
• memory
• self-discovery
• journalism
• relationships

Keywords

• faceblindness
• memory
• self-discovery
• Sadie Dingfelder
• Steven Hay

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory and Imagination

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