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the face blindness thing was one of the most striking things to me about the rationalists, it’s way more common than i would’ve guessed in that crowd. someone told me once if you learn to read too early the part of your brain that does face recognition gets coopted into reading?
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Very High IQ people favorite self-diagnoses, ranked: 0. Autist 1. ADHD 2. Seasonal affective disorder 3. Face blindness
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I read something in @JoHenrich 's The Secret of Our Success that might shed some light on what's up. Learning to read competes with facial recognition, for space in the fusiform gyrus. Pushes face recognition out of the left side, and into the right hemisphere as best it can
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