Ash u3a Monthly Meeting
16 May 2023
Venue: St. Mary's Church Hall (Visit Website)
Address: 203 Vale Rd, Ash Vale, Aldershot GU12 5JE (Go to Map)
Organised by: Diana Wilson / for more information phone 07742 657652
Speaker: Jo Livingstone
In 2012 Jo Livingston, one of the Directors of Face Blind UK, set out to gather the lived experience of individuals diagnosed with prosopagnosia. Some stories are funny, some quite poignant, but together they bring a neurological condition to life and place it in a personal and social context.
Jo Livingston, was sixty years old before her inability to recognise faces was diagnosed as face-blindness. “I look at my daughter or at pictures of my husband, and I don’t recognise them,” she said. “Over the years you develop strategies to help you identify people, like where a particular colleague sits in the office, or their hair, or how they walk, but inevitably there are situations where these strategies don’t work, and it can be upsetting and awkward when you can’t work out who it is you’re talking to, or mistake them for someone else.”