Comments | moneypenny: "I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything."

moneypenny

"I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything." - John Steinbeck

Sep 19, 2006 14:25

Today's Important Question: What's going on with my former self?Am I the only person in this godforsaken world who is great with names, but terrible with faces? It is quite common for me to go a week without seeing one of my closest friends and to grow completely disoriented when I see them again, realizing that their face looks completely ( Read more... )

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melvillean September 19 2006, 20:29:24 UTC

I've never been too good with names but I remember faces.

pixiepudding September 19 2006, 21:46:53 UTC

The only thing I can remember about people is their clothes. People will describe other people to me and I won't remember them at all and then finally I'll go, "ooooh, is he that guy who wears the slouchy pants all the time?" or "yeahyeah she had that supercute sweater!"
Faces? Forget about it. Although I do also have a pretty good memory for fabulous breasts.

spride September 20 2006, 00:47:37 UTC

We all do it; either names or faces or both. It's an attribute of high functioning autism, as it's known to the masses, or 'being smart and having other things to think about' in plain English. Don't worry about it. If they're important they'll introduce themselves again when necessary, if they're not, what does it matter?

good_the_third September 20 2006, 23:29:17 UTC

Movies are different. I am much better with actors names than with real people. Somehow I can essentialize their personality and use their name as a label? (complete SLC bs). Of course, I apparently don't know the name of that boy who plays Neville Longbottom, though I thought I did.

thetappanzee September 21 2006, 01:40:16 UTC

I totally sympathize, and I think it especially sucks when you have this problem when you're in a field like politics. In a meeting with the Speaker yesterday I half-ignored my introduction to Dan Brodsky, whose company has done a significant percentage of Manhattan's development in the last 20 years, and the Commissioner of Department of Housing Preservation and Development. I've met both of them before. Part of the problem may have been they didn't intimidate me enough the first time.