For decades, Sadie Dingfelder would be greeted familiarly by people on the street and at the grocery store…and had no idea who they were. At 39, she found an explanation for why this happened so often to her: a cognitive disorder known as faceblindness.
Sadie talks with host Anita Rao about how that discovery (and a few others) made her rewrite 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 cognitive diagnoses shape their life together.
Sadie is a science journalist and author of “Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory and Imagination.”
