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August
18, 2005:
The Crazy Things People Do
Interview
with Andrew N. Williams author of Are
You Crazy?
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Mike Carruthers:
People are weird. Maybe 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
N. 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 it. 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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