Meet Lori Emment, a local Broken Hill person who spent a lot of her life not being about to remember people’s faces.  
Lori spent a lot of her life being told that she was dumb, lazy and self-centred and she believed it. She could see people’s faces but never remember them.
As a child, she would focus really hard on what her parents were wearing any particular day to identify them at the shops. She never questioned she was different to other people.
As an adult, Lori discovered she had prosopagnosia after her mum watched a documentary on it. Finally Lori had a name for something she has struggled with her whole life.
Lori currently works at Willy Nilly Art helping artist Amanda Johnson behind the scene. Lori is a wonderful story teller and impersonator and this weekend she’ll be performing in the local production of Steel Magnolias at Theatre 44.
* We have deliberately chosen to blur Lori’s face so you have a glimpse of what it means to live with face blindness or prosopagnosia.
A Home in the Outback is produced by Katherine Waite, an interviewer and writer based in Broken Hill, NSW. I also produce private life stories for family history. Please get in touch if that service interests you.
Music by Aimee Volkofsky - Heart is a desert from Dust Lust.

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