I'm in the same boat as you. If people act as though they know me, I assume they must be right, but very probably I have to navigate through an entire conversation with them with no idea at all who they are. I do learn specific faces in the end, if I know the person well enough for long enough - I don't think I'd fail to recognise a close relative or really good friend even with quite a drastic change in look, but there aren't all that many people in that category. More distant friends, acquaintances, colleagues, movie stars ... it's a mystery to me how everyone goes about recognising each other, because most of the time I haven't a clue who people are. I'm not that great at voice recognition either - it's very annoying when people ring up and just launch into conversation assuming I will know who they are, because I shan't.
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Date: 3 Dec 2010 08:27 am (UTC)