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August
8, 2008
The Crazy Things People Do
Interview with Andrew Williams,
author of
Are You Crazy?
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Mike
Carruthers:
People are weird. So many people do so many weird things that
maybe being weird is normal. For example, do you know a lot of
people suffer from something called face blindness?
Andrew Williams:
Approximately 5 million Americans are believed to suffer with
face blindness. And face blindness is the inability to recognize
people from their faces.
Andrew Williams,
author of the book Are
You Crazy?...
Individuals who
have this cannot recognize their children, their spouses, people
they work with; and those people who have it often report that
if they stand on their head and look at faces upside-down, it's
easier for them to recognize the individual.
It just may be
that we all have something weird about us so maybe we need to
be a little more understanding of people who have things like
face blindness or something called pica.
Pica, or P I
C A, this is eating foods that are not usually food items: coins,
ash, cigarette butts, soap and coffee grounds.
It often starts
in childhood, says Andrew, when kids start putting strange things
in their mouths and an extreme case of pica…
It happened just
last year where a 62-year-old man went to the emergency room
because he had a total of 360 coins in his stomach.
And speaking
of eating things…
There are individuals
who are afraid to eat what they refer to as concealed food.
And that is food that they can't see the inside of. So something
like ravioli, they would be afraid to eat it because they don't
know what's inside.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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