Sadie Dingfelder spent decades not recognizing people who knew her and not knowing why. At 39, she found an explanation: she is faceblind. She talks with Anita about how that discovery sent her down a journalistic rabbit hole that led her to rewrite a lot of her past and come to a fundamentally new understanding of her brain. Plus, her husband Steve joins the conversation to talk about how Sadie’s new diagnoses — including having a severely deficient autobiographical memory — shape their life together.

Meet the guests:

- <a href="https://www.sadied.com/">Sadie Dingfelder</a>, science journalist and author of "<a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sadie-dingfelder/do-i-know-you/9781668640050/?lens=little-brown">Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory and Imagination</a>"

- Steven Hay, engineer and Sadie's husband

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