Personal Life
For his entire life Sacks has had a condition known as prosopagnosia or face blindness. In a December 2010 interview Sacks discussed how he had also lost his stereoscopic vision the previous year due to a malignant tumor in his right eye. He now has no vision in his right eye. His loss of stereo vision was recounted in his book The Mind's Eye, published in October 2010. Sacks discussed his struggles with prosopagnosia in an interview by Leslie Stahl on the March 18, 2012 episode of 60 Minutes.
Sacks has never married or lived with anyone and says that he is celibate. In a December 2001 interview he stated that he had not had a relationship in many years and has described his own shyness as "a disease". Sacks swims almost every day and has done so for decades. He discussed his work and his personal health issues in the June 28, 2011 BBC documentary Imagine.
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