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I'm certain I have the ability to super recognize people from audio and smell, but not visual. I'm very nearly face blind, and can hardly remember close people'
by JackMorgan 6y ago
I'm certain I have the ability to super recognize people from audio and smell, but not visual. I'm very nearly face blind, and can hardly remember close people's faces. Usually I can detect a voice actor from a single spoken word, or which co-worker walked down a given hall just from sense of smell.
The audio one is hard to explain, almost like I can visualize their voice thumbprint, hearing each aspect of intonation, syllable spacing, and cadence. It's so clear I can often see it matching over other words by the same person. Rarely an actor might put on an accent good enough I don't "recognize" them, and it's deeply unsettling, like an acustic uncanny valley, hearing the wrong voice on top of a face.
I went without glasses for almost six months when I was little before my parents realized, so I've always wondered if my audio and olfactory centers just overdeveloped.