Name: Sadie Dingfelder launches "Do I Know You?," with Raquel D'Apice
Start: 2024-06-25T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-25T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Sadie Dingfelder launches "Do I Know You?," with Raquel D'Apice

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Celebrate this humorous and insightful journey by a faceblind reporter into neuroscience and the mysteries of her own life

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<h3>An award-winning science writer discovers she’s faceblind and investigates the neuroscience of sight, memory, and imagination—while solving some long-running mysteries about her own life.</h3> Author Sadie Dingelder will be joined by humor writer Raquel D'Apice for a reading, conversation, reception, and book signing. <a href="https://shop.loftypigeonbooks.com/item/2-gUryvjjJ_HiGPfrve_0A" title="https://shop.loftypigeonbooks.com/item/2-gUryvjjJ_HiGPfrve_0A" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Preorder your copy!</a> <h3>About the book</h3>Science writer Sadie Dingfelder has always known that she’s a little quirky. But while she’s made some strange mistakes over the years, it’s not until she accosts a stranger in a grocery store (whom she thinks is her husband) that she realizes something is amiss. With a mixture of curiosity and dread, Dingfelder starts contacting neuroscientists and lands herself in scores of studies. In the course of her nerdy midlife crisis, she discovers that she is emphatically not neurotypical. She has prosopagnosia (faceblindness), stereoblindness, aphantasia (an inability to create mental imagery), and a condition called severely deficient autobiographical memory. As Dingfelder begins to see herself more clearly, she discovers a vast well of hidden neurodiversity in the world at large. There are so many different flavors of human consciousness, and most of us just assume that ours is the norm. Can you visualize? Do you have an inner monologue? Are you always 100 percent sure whether you know someone or not? If you can perform any of these mental feats, you may be surprised to learn that many people—including Dingfelder—can’t. A lively blend of personal narrative and popular science, Do I Know You? is the story of one unusual mind’s attempt to understand itself—and a fascinating exploration of the remarkable breadth of human experience. <h3>About the author</h3>Sadie Dingfelder is a freelance science journalist. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic, the Washington Post, and Washingtonian magazine. A former staff reporter at the Washington Post Express, Dingfelder also previously served as senior science writer at the Monitor on Psychology magazine, covering new findings in neuroscience, cognitive science, and ethology for members of the American Psychological Association. <h3>About Raquel D'Apice</h3>Raquel D'Apice is the founder of the humor blog The Ugly Volvo. She has written for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and hosts the Kid/Life Crisis podcast with comedian Katie Compa. She is the author and illustrator of the book "Welcome to the Club: 100 Parenting Milestones You Never Saw Coming." She lives in Jersey City (which is actually really nice it turns out).

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