Leo Laporte

Blindness is not a binary condition. There are a wide range of deficits including a somewhat arbitrary "legally blnd" state which differs from one country to another. There are those whose blindness may be principally in color perception, night time vision, peripheral vision, etc.

The bottom line is that video editing and many other tasks which rely on vision can be performed by those individuals whose medical and / or legal situation is accurately described as blind.

I'm 'face-blind' - prosopagnosia in fancy terms. I distinguish non-family members by heights, sounds of voice, and other non- facial cues.

So I Googled prosopagnosia. I only read the first paragraph from wiki. It says it can affect 2.5% of the population. I have never heard if it. Surely if it affects that much of the population, I have probably met many people with the condition.

When you first said it, it seemed like it would be a pretty seriously debilitating, but after thinking about it probably not so much.

I would guess you also have close friends and co workers that you can distinguish their faces?

After sending this message, I was going to close the Google search page and found this: Notable cases Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple[39] My geek hero

Jane Goodall She was known to have named some of her favorite chimpanzees. If you can't tell people apart, would you be more or less likely to be able to tell chimpanzees apart?

Seymore4Head:

Ironically, I can recognize most makes/models of cars by the shape of their headlights at night, as well as most major types of commercial jet liners passing over our neighborhood(we're under a flightpath that takes many of them across to England & Europe).

What I NEED is to be able to recognize the most basic feature of fellow human beings - their FACES for cryin out loud! Watching movies with me is an exercise in patience, as I am constantly confusing similar looking characters. And the condition is not helped by the use of glasses.

I use the example of Hilary Duff and Britney Spears some years ago, when they were simultaneously on top of their careers and on the fronts of magazines. Until I picked the magazine up and read the caption I was SURE Britney was Hilary and vice versa. But most other people, especially women, said I must have been crazy to confuse the two! lol