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I have learned something this week! I am apparently face blind.
The way I've always described it - once you are out of my line of sight, I don't know what you look like. I'm not so severe that I can't recognize people I know, but it takes me a long time to get to the point where I can just recognize someone on sight.
I'm also now starting to realize that I don't really recognize people by their faces. When dealing with customers at work that I know I will have to remember, I remember their clothes, or their hair, or their purse, or if they're holding the item we've been talking about, or some other thing that has absolutely nothing to do with what their face looks like.
I'm utterly baffled by the fact that I have gone twenty seven years without knowing this about myself. Like, how is that possible? I didn't know until a few days ago that people can picture people's faces in their mind. This is apparently a common human ability that I have never even known I was missing.
It's really neat to be able to put a name to this. I've pretty much just spent my entire life thinking I had a shitty memory for faces. And I sort of do, but it's an actual THING where my brain won't remember them. It's not just me being stupid. It's kinda great to realize.
I am currently devouring any and all information I can find about it on the internet. My poor sister is having to constantly hear me spout out facts and stories that I'm reading because I CAN'T SHUT UP ABOUT IT.
The way I've always described it - once you are out of my line of sight, I don't know what you look like. I'm not so severe that I can't recognize people I know, but it takes me a long time to get to the point where I can just recognize someone on sight.
I'm also now starting to realize that I don't really recognize people by their faces. When dealing with customers at work that I know I will have to remember, I remember their clothes, or their hair, or their purse, or if they're holding the item we've been talking about, or some other thing that has absolutely nothing to do with what their face looks like.
I'm utterly baffled by the fact that I have gone twenty seven years without knowing this about myself. Like, how is that possible? I didn't know until a few days ago that people can picture people's faces in their mind. This is apparently a common human ability that I have never even known I was missing.
It's really neat to be able to put a name to this. I've pretty much just spent my entire life thinking I had a shitty memory for faces. And I sort of do, but it's an actual THING where my brain won't remember them. It's not just me being stupid. It's kinda great to realize.
I am currently devouring any and all information I can find about it on the internet. My poor sister is having to constantly hear me spout out facts and stories that I'm reading because I CAN'T SHUT UP ABOUT IT.