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faceblind
I'm not faceblind. At least, I don't think I am - people are everlastingly recognizing me when I don't recognize them. I think this is because I don't notice them, though.
However, I do like to call myself face-visually-impaired. I do have *some* trouble recognizing people whom I should recognize, especially "out of context" (recognizing a professor anywhere but in class, for example), and if I'm stressed or tired or sick my problems rise. *shrugs* It happens. There's rarely, if ever, a need to bring any of this up, but somehow I got into a conversation with somebody about this once, prompting the answer "well, why don't you/they try harder???" Um, right. What part of the word faceblind don't you understand? This isn't face-didn't-try-hard-enough or face-don't-give-a-shit, it's faceblind. I never got through to her on that part. Honestly, it's like talking to a brick wall. Why couldn't she try harder to not be... Ahem. Sorry.
On that note, I present This beautiful link. Learn it, love it, and no more sillies, okay?
However, I do like to call myself face-visually-impaired. I do have *some* trouble recognizing people whom I should recognize, especially "out of context" (recognizing a professor anywhere but in class, for example), and if I'm stressed or tired or sick my problems rise. *shrugs* It happens. There's rarely, if ever, a need to bring any of this up, but somehow I got into a conversation with somebody about this once, prompting the answer "well, why don't you/they try harder???" Um, right. What part of the word faceblind don't you understand? This isn't face-didn't-try-hard-enough or face-don't-give-a-shit, it's faceblind. I never got through to her on that part. Honestly, it's like talking to a brick wall. Why couldn't she try harder to not be... Ahem. Sorry.
On that note, I present This beautiful link. Learn it, love it, and no more sillies, okay?
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Also like Fjorb_Teke, also a lot of the time I get that nagging feeling that I know someone, but I cna't figure out from where or why. This isn't so annoying usually, but often the person knows me, and knows my name... And so I end up talking to them and spending a large portion of the conversation trying to figure out who the hell I'm talking to. :P
btw, I liked that link. xD
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I thought I knew within a couple of weeks of starting university every person on my course who lived at my residence (only 5 including myself, two distinctively hairstyled guys, a blond girl and a dark haired girl.) Then one morning, about a month in, I was heading in for a lecture with my TV group (about 40 of us) and as I left my block, I held the door open for a guy coming down from the floor above. We both went off to uni (I suspect I must have gone via a shop or something) and I thought nothing of it. Until I walked into the studio and recognised the clothes and hair (ginger, so quite distinctive) of this guy. I had been living beneath a guy on my course for more than month without ever realising it, even though we were both in TV together (there are about 100 overall.) The experience was repeated in February when, after a few weeks of rehearsals with a girl, I discovered I'd lived opposite her since September and had never connected the two of them.
Of course it didn't help that she has blond hair a bit past her shoulders, which seems to apply to about 30-40% of girls at the moment. *Smites girls for changing their hairstyle so often* At least you can learn to recognise guys more easily because they're less likely to change their hair *muttergrumble*
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I went to my doctor yesterday and I didn't bloody recognize her. It's only been two years, and I used to see this woman every month.
I have an especially hard time with the A&F model type blondes that went to my high school. Unless they're all in a line or I already know which is which, I don't know if she's Stephanie or Katie or....
It's not an issue of not remembering them. I remember their names, but I can't put a name to the face.
Did you know that people that can recognize objects (cars, for example) at the drop of a hat are more likely to be faceblind?
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Also like Fjorb_Teke, also a lot of the time I get that nagging feeling that I know someone, but I cna't figure out from where or why. This isn't so annoying usually, but often the person knows me, and knows my name... And so I end up talking to them and spending a large portion of the conversation trying to figure out who the hell I'm talking to. :P
btw, I liked that link. xD
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I thought I knew within a couple of weeks of starting university every person on my course who lived at my residence (only 5 including myself, two distinctively hairstyled guys, a blond girl and a dark haired girl.) Then one morning, about a month in, I was heading in for a lecture with my TV group (about 40 of us) and as I left my block, I held the door open for a guy coming down from the floor above. We both went off to uni (I suspect I must have gone via a shop or something) and I thought nothing of it. Until I walked into the studio and recognised the clothes and hair (ginger, so quite distinctive) of this guy. I had been living beneath a guy on my course for more than month without ever realising it, even though we were both in TV together (there are about 100 overall.) The experience was repeated in February when, after a few weeks of rehearsals with a girl, I discovered I'd lived opposite her since September and had never connected the two of them.
Of course it didn't help that she has blond hair a bit past her shoulders, which seems to apply to about 30-40% of girls at the moment. *Smites girls for changing their hairstyle so often* At least you can learn to recognise guys more easily because they're less likely to change their hair *muttergrumble*
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I went to my doctor yesterday and I didn't bloody recognize her. It's only been two years, and I used to see this woman every month.
I have an especially hard time with the A&F model type blondes that went to my high school. Unless they're all in a line or I already know which is which, I don't know if she's Stephanie or Katie or....
It's not an issue of not remembering them. I remember their names, but I can't put a name to the face.
Did you know that people that can recognize objects (cars, for example) at the drop of a hat are more likely to be faceblind?
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