Book review: ‘You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know'

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As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. In the afterword she says: I hope that, at least in some small way, this story will help steer others toward clarity, and toward love, in spite of the greatest odds. Heather Sellers is the author of the short-story collection Georgia under Water and three books on writing.

Also, I play a game with my husband where we pick a random person and try to name 2-3 people they could be a combination of… and see if we have an overlap or two. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less. I have the same experience on a regular basis.

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You do the early abs class at the gym, right. Twice a week I crunched, planked, and lunged next to the nice lady that I just told off. The same lady who would be tipping me at the end of her meal. This is the only time I can recall someone claiming to know me actually being correct. For some insight into my situation, I turned to answers. Answer: Your face reminds them of someone else, or they think they have seen you before. People in general have basic mannerisms, movements, facial and body characteristics which will strike a persons memory of someone they know. I am often told that I have a very expressive face, so maybe my micro-expressions have something to do with it. I have decided to start playing along with people to see how far I can get. Never mind, your face resembles my sister in law, who lives in India. Especially the chin and your long face cut but the color of your eyeballs are different than her, she has black eyeballs and you have the blue one. However, I was also looking for the same answer why people tend to ask me the same question. But may be I got the answer, it is because of the common face cut that match with our known one. Like I recognize you with my sister in laws because of your chin and the long face that match with her. I love it, because people feel more comfortable talking with me because I remind them of someone. I think maybe I have a face of familiarity. My theory you don t look like anyone i know this is a little deep but I like to think I am here to bring comfort to others, and make connections. People telling me I look like someone opens the door to communications and usually leads to other conversations or connections. I also think sometimes it is souls recognizing each other from a previous life. But to me, most people look familiar. Funny that people land here for the past 6 years. The weird thing is that my sister and I look a lot alike depending on who you ask but she never really gets this comment. When I was single guys would usually say I looked like an actress. Lots of people think I look like Reese Witherspoon even though I have dark hair. I have also had people who said they went up to strangers and said hello thinking it was me. One time I was at a bar and found one of my dopplegangers and followed her around. Unfortunately it was before the agree if smart phones or I certainly would have gotten a pic. Not sure if that has anything to do with it. Yes its happened to me too…second time this year and I just felt I needed to know what was going on…. Im waiting to find out as she needed reminding…. So whoever was looking good or at least better than usual at that party, I stole your compliment. The one yesterday was a little bit more annoying. I told my dad this happened two days in a row and he said it was the Mandela Effect. I have the same experience on a regular basis. It seems to be getting a bit more frequent which I thought odd so I thought to google this today and relieved and curious to find these posts here. I think it would be interesting for all us familiars to meet and see if we can notice something familiar about each other. I had my court wedding yesterday. Although o thought i had seen her before too. All my life complete strangers have said they knew me somewhere. Some will just stare at me probably wondering if they should ask me wberethey knew me from. My only fear is that people should not mistake one for a criminal with this familiarity issue. I also think there might be some special reasons for this whic might make me superhuman. I get this at least once a week. Even when i moved 2000 miles away from where I was born and raised, and away from family, I still had people thinking I was someone they knew from somewhere. Just this afternoon I had someone call a different name across the street to me because I guess I looked like someone he knew. I have people come up to me with a big smile and hug me and start telling me how much they missed me. I have both men and women sharing deep things with me, immediately, because I was the woman they spoke to in depth behind the counter at the mall the past week. I have traveled and been in the basement of a small private school in North Dakota and had a woman say she was trying to remember my name, and I had not met anyone there yet, ever. At least they are smiling all the time and I often make a new friend or I get favor in situations, usually because I am kind, patient and diplomatic so not to embarass the person they may be the President of the Bank or the store, etc. Come to think of it, Matt, your post left me with a possible unanswered question I have had since I was about 17 years old. I won many, many, many, many beauty contests as a teen. But, during puberty, I was a regular looking, healthy, athletic child. Anyways I was in the Dollar tree today. So I probably looked flustered and insane with my long hair all about my face real poofy like and red-faced from the long walk. Do you know anyone by Gibbson. And she was like: She was my teacher and you look just like her. We both laugh and I say well see yah. Maybe the whole mad scientist look. Anywhoo, the whole experience kinda creeped me out. What, to think of a doppelganger out there twice my age. Maybe she you don t look like anyone i know I was this Ms. Also- Maybe I should of asked what subject this supossed look-just-a-like teacher taught so that I could have some direction as to what career path to go on. But at the you don t look like anyone i know of the day this experience lifted my spirits because to think I reminded this lady of her childhood and a teacher she loved brings me this great joy. I love that moment when you get to watch people remembering enjoyable past memories, especially when you were what caused them to do so. The whole experience to me was weird and yet endearing. It made me feel so uplifted in a way and like I got this complete stranger on such a deep level. Finally a time out where not everything was impersonal. Anywhoo maybe I should become a teacher. Twice and in two different occasions has complete strangers mistakenly thought my Mother was their old school teacher. When her job is working as a deli employee the comparison always baffles me. So apparently looking like teachers run in the family. I am so excited to finally find others who have this experience. Makes no difference, I always look like somebody else. I have been unable to find a pattern. Once a nurse told me I look like her son-in-law and she showed me a photo of him at the family dinner — I had to admit he looked similar. I have been seeking you all for all these years, wishing to connect so we can figure this out. What is the common thread in all of our lives. Intuitively, I feel that my natural ability to accept others and not judge them my real superpoweris what reminds them of someone else in their lives who share this non-judgment attitude. Perhaps my attitude is communicated in my microexpressions and others pick up on this familiar feeling. Part of why I believe this is because of the love I feel from those who identify me. They are thrilled to meet me, despite having no clue who I am. My familiarity is enough to compel them to treat me with the same love and camaraderie they would treat my doppelgangers. I have always felt very strongly about this my whole life. This means something and I want to know exactly what. This has happened to me all my life, too. In one instance I can see a resemblance. I believe you are on to something when you talk of acceptance and being non judgmental. I suggest, also, that some people have basic facial plane recognition and tend not to notice details. I could see that happening in some of the comparisons over the years. So far it continues to happen no less than twice a year. I just smile and agree that I seem to have a familiar face whatever that means. I actually ended up here on a goggle search because I was curious if there were many more people having this experience. And that happens to be one thing that I think most people in life are seldom able to do. I am so glad to hear your comments. I am not very spiritual either, but I do meditate and I try to stay true to my inner self or higher self or my spirit, whatever you want to call it. I too share this familiarity, and I have been asking the same questions lately. One year, I was working for an international organization in Tucson. I had to pick this guy up from the airport who was coming from Macedonia. Inmediately he says you look like someone I know. I smiled knowingly and said well I hope you at least like the person. I told him this happens a lot. Sitting across from me was this girl about 18 or 19. She was nursing a baby and was staring at me. She then asked me if I had gone to some highschool and names it. I turned to the guy from Macedonia and said…see. I get this at least every other day and it does my head in. It is so great to read this as I have been puzzling for years as to how people ponder upon my existence in a duplicated format. You are a hilarious writer, with a sparking sense of humour. Then it hit me when a few times a year I would get, oh you look like Ferris Bueller or that guy from Two and a Half men. Only this morning I was in the supermarket and this guy was staring at me intently. It was definitely not a chat up line as he looked shocked by my response and apologised. I agree there must be a scientific explanation for this. Maybe we have some common features that confuse you don t look like anyone i know. I am yet another person who stumbled onto this post while searching for reasons why I might look familiar to people. They had an entire conversation with me even though I was looking at them with bewilderment. These are just a couple of many instances. I wish there was a better explanation for this phenomenon. I get the same thing everywhere. I was just in the grocery store and this man was staring at me like he was waiting for me to say hello. Many told me they knew me in places I have never been. When I was younger I do think it was an ice breaker for men to say hello to me, but now at 56 and counting it is simply not that. People of all walks of lifeyoung and old, men women etc are saying it. The other day I was on the road and stopped for coffee and the waitress said something to me. That was 3 days ago… For some reason I decided to note down every time it happened after that and try to take a snapshot. Or have we all been reincardinated. Send me ur pictures and I will post something, I am a photographer. I know you wrote this wayyyyyy back in 2012 …. I was really wanting to contribute something insightful to this blog post … but admits … I keep looking at that photo you put up. Sorry … I am in a goofball mood this whole weekend. I have the same thing happen to me all the time. Some people will actually yell or run after me. Just had it happen over the summer, when a woman at a car show starting yelling at me from behind as I was walking. Also, I play a game with my husband where we pick a random person and try to name 2-3 people they could be a combination of… and see if we have an overlap or two. I like the idea of just going along with one of their possible solutions, though. Thanks for that creative idea to turn this into something very entertaining. This has happened all over the country since I was a teenager. I was visiting my brother in Florida a couple months ago and he said that people always think they know me or tell me I have a familiar face-I was surprised to hear that he gets this reply from people too. She told the adult man she was with and he approached me ready to confront me or tell at me until he looked into my eyes. Another time, I applied for a job and the manager and the other boss both just stared at me then started asking me who I hang with. The first time though was when a teen boy was following me down a street calling me Danielle. I used to wear a Western Michigan sweatshirt all the time, but stopped because complete strangers would stop me to ask if I went to Western. At first, I was surprised…that grew into mild annoyance…which grew into complete and utter intolerance. I have decided it is best for all of society for me to retire the shirt — but it is so comfy.

Sellers bounces back and forth between the two, trying to look normal at school and all the while thinking that she herself has a mental illness. I think she does a great job of explaining this hard-to-describe face recognition problem. I was deeply hurt by these reactions, and also confused. Explaining that she was frightened doesn't go far enough. Sellers sets herself up as an expert and authority on this neurological disorder that she and I share. I wanted my guests to feel welcome, warm and cared for. Interwoven in all this is the story of coming to terms with prosopagnosia, being scorned by friends who deemed her a snob, feeling as if telling people would make them think she was mentally unstable.