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<\/a><\/p>\nTo make matters worse, I’m not great with names either. Unless you have an unconventional name, or a conventional name with an unconventional spelling, and you tell me how you spell it, then I’ll definitely remember. I’m great with spelling.<\/p>\n
What does stick with me is your voice and your story.<\/p>\n
I went to lunch with some of my gym gang and introduced myself to a dude I (thought I) didn’t know. He politely told me his name. I said, “So what do you do?”<\/p>\n
He said, “I’m a mechanic at a Lexus dealer,” and I was like, “Wait, I’ve met you before.” He said, yeah, we had both been at a birthday party a few months prior.<\/p>\n
I think one of the reasons I don’t meet people easily<\/a> is because I’m terrified that I’ve already met them but I have no recollection of it.<\/p>\n So what I’m saying is, if I’ve met you, and I introduce myself to you or\u00a0I look right through you, I swear to god I’m not being snooty.\u00a0And I’m sorry. I’m sorry I don’t remember your face. I just have no visual discernment. (This deficit may explain my difficulty with the aesthetics of home decor, fashion<\/a>, and makeup<\/a>.)<\/p>\n I really do love to get to know people, but it takes me a while, so hey, if we ever meet, will you do me a favor? Will you say your name, spell your name, say your name again, and tell me a weird anecdote about you? And then the next time I see you, I’ll be like, “Hey, Veronika with a k! You sold a sawed-off shotgun to an undercover cop once but he let you go because he liked your sleeve tat! How you been?”<\/p>\n *I don’t really have face blindness. I took an online test. But it may be kind of like when I got tested for Celiac and it came back negative, and I was like, “But gluten hates me!” and the doc said I was non-Celiac gluten-sensitive<\/em>. Maybe I’m not face-blind; maybe I’m just face-insensitive<\/em>. Or maybe I’m just insensitive. Maybe I’m just an asshole. Gah! I’m the worst. Sorry sorry sorry sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" But I kind of have face blindness*? Recently, I was out with some friends. A very drunk young woman, who I guess I had met at a friend’s party? twice?, came up to me and said, “I’ve seen you walking around East Campus three times, and you always look like you’ve never seen me before.” … Continue reading I’m Not Saying I Have Face Blindness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-world-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}