Names and Faces

[bayareajenn]

I have an uncanny ability to remember faces.  I can recognize actors in the most outlandish make-up, or who haven't been in anything for years, and even when everyone says, "No, it can't be that person," it turns out, 999 times out of a 1000, that actually it is the person I said it was.  It is practically a parlor trick how good I am at this.  I

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[tshuma]

I'm awful with names, too! Also, not long after we had been dating, maybe a year in, whenever I made reference to a past boyfriend, really good male friend, or basically anyone male I had positive feelings about, I called them Brian. It got to the point where I would be telling a story he'd heard before (to someone else), and I would say "and B-" and he would fill in the right ex-boyfriend's name for me. No idea why that happens, but I'm glad I'm not the only one it happens to.