‘Do I Know You?’ by Sadie DingfelderThe holidays are a good time to share important life news with family, and a few years ago Sadie Dingfelder told her dad that he might have a rare neurological disorder known as prosopagnosia, also known as faceblindness. Pops, a former Tampa City Councilman (and in full disclosure, this writer’s middle school science teacher), brushed it off as Sadie being “spacy” and reminded her that you don’t have to know who someone is to have a conversation with them. That was enough to get Sadie—a musician, former Creative Loafing Tampa Bay intern, science journalist and former features editor at the Washington Post—and she dive into the science and emotion of the condition in this work. For fans of: “Memory’s Last Breath,” NPR’s Science Friday; $32, Little, Brown Spark—Ray Roa Credit: Photo by Oxana Ware
Thanksgiving is a good day to share important life news with family, and a few years ago Sadie Dingfelder told her dad that he might have a rare neurological disorder known as prosopagnosia, also known as faceblindness.
Pops, a former Tampa City Councilman (and in full disclosure, this writer’s middle school science teacher), brushed it off as Sadie being “spacy” and reminded her that you don’t have to know who someone is to have a conversation with them.
That was enough to get Sadie—a musician, former Creative Loafing Tampa Bay intern, science journalist and former features editor at the Washington Post—by, and she’ll spend the afternoon talking with WFLA’s Jeff Paterson about what it was like growing up secretly neurodivergent in Tampa in conjunction with the release of her new book, “Do I Know You?”
Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...
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