Name needed: like prosopagnosia, except emotionally rather than cognitively blind to faces, and specifically over video chat.
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Could you have that and not be autistic? It’s hard to imagine that as an isolated condition.
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Leaving aside my own experiences here, I notice that my dog has this! If she sees me in person, even from very far away, she gets super pumped. If she sees me in video chat, even if I'm calling her name and right in front of her—nothing.
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Oh I see, I know you’re curious about the potential condition but in the case of your dog I would check her vision first :-)
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Other dog owners tell me theirs behave the same way! Seems pretty consistent. At first I thought it might be about smell, but she'll react even if I'm quite far away, so I'm skeptical that's it. And she'll react without sound, so it's not hearing… gotta be visual, right?
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Have you tried to hide most of your body except for your face and put a frame in front of you and talk to your dog through that frame? Also from a big screen (like a TV set)? Maybe the reason she doesn't react is great difference in size (that is, if you only have used laptop)
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The frame idea is interesting! I wonder how she'd react if I was just a floating head in real life.
We've only tried laptop and phone, so I'm definitely smaller than in real life. But again, she'll react to me in real life if I'm far enough away to be much smaller.
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Actually along these lines, my daughters are really excited by FaceTime with relatives and photos on the phone of family.
But in the few experiences with facetiming the traveling /parent/, we just get a kind of shrug reaction "oh yeah that's my dad huh... whatever"
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