"Too often, I am a little embarrassed that I can't come up with a name so I let such situations go by."
I know what you mean. My memory for faces is bad enough that I often don't recognize people out of context at all, so I'm never sure, if I see someone that looks familiar, that I've ever met them at all, much less able to retrieve their name and attach it to that face.
And the hardest part is that people don't guess I might have trouble remembering names or faces; instead they assume that I don't like them or don't want to talk to them.
One of the things I really value about fandom is the name badges. For people who are consistent, it gives me a chance to cudgel their name and faces into my memory long after most people would have it down pat. And for the rest, it at least gives me something to call them that is socially acceptable in the meantime.
As to high school, well, this post will make me think about reunions more than I would have otherwise.
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Date: 2010-05-08 11:09 pm (UTC)I know what you mean. My memory for faces is bad enough that I often don't recognize people out of context at all, so I'm never sure, if I see someone that looks familiar, that I've ever met them at all, much less able to retrieve their name and attach it to that face.
And the hardest part is that people don't guess I might have trouble remembering names or faces; instead they assume that I don't like them or don't want to talk to them.
One of the things I really value about fandom is the name badges. For people who are consistent, it gives me a chance to cudgel their name and faces into my memory long after most people would have it down pat. And for the rest, it at least gives me something to call them that is socially acceptable in the meantime.
As to high school, well, this post will make me think about reunions more than I would have otherwise.