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'Voice Blind' Man Befuddled By Mysterious Callers

Seeded on Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:52 AM EDT
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health, brain, neurology, morning-edition, phonagnosia, agnosia, steve-royster, voice-blindness
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In fact, Royster has phonagnosia — or voice blindness — a very rare and very strange disorder. Like everyone else, phonagnosics can tell from the sound of your voice if you're male or female, old or young, sarcastic, upset, happy.

They just have no blooming idea who you are.

"It's not that every voice sounds the same to me," Royster explains, "it's just that hearing someone's voice doesn't bring that person to mind."

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proglib

I think I may have ambrosiagnosia--I have no idea what I'm eating for dessert.

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Reply#1 - Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:03 AM EDT
Beau7890

I thought that was not knowing what the gods eat for dessert.

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#1.1 - Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:21 AM EDT
proglib

Wouldn't that be an agnosticabrosiagnosiac?

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#1.2 - Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:36 PM EDT
proglib

...too late to edit: agnosticambrosiagnosiac. Then there's the dyslexicagnosticambrosiagnosiac, who knows not what the dogs eat for dessert.

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#1.3 - Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:57 PM EDT
Beau7890

That's hilarious! Too bad no one will see it.

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#1.4 - Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:58 PM EDT
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proglib

...only the newsvinosiacs will miss it.

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Reply#2 - Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:06 PM EDT
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