Do I Know You?

“Sadie Dingfelder was born funny, in both senses of the word.”

“Sadie Dingfelder has opened a new window into human neurological diversity, or neurodiversity. She learns about neurodiversity when she discovers she is faceblind. She can see people just fine, but she can’t recognize them. That’s been a problem all her life, and when she is presented with a medical diagnosis—prosopagnosia—she embarks on a voyage of self-discovery that leads her to discover the huge spectrum of human visual processing. The realization that some people see a flat world while others are menaced by three-dimensional objects is stunning. But it doesn’t end there. Digging deeper, she follows psychologists who are unraveling how we think about what we see and how our imaginations and memories are built. It’s a fascinating story that will make you rethink how you see the world.”

“When a skilled science writer starts to wonder about her own mental landscape and not that of others, a rare and insightful story unfolds. Dingfelder gives us a front row seat to her subjective reality as understood by modern day psychological and brain sciences. This book is chock full of dazzling insights and told with warmth and humor.”