Pirates Of The Mississippian?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Heheheheh....well....if you saw who I married, you'd know I tend to agree with you.

[Buglady]

I don't know why I have so much diffeculty with it, I really don't. I can tell four solid black cats apart with no problem but people mess me up. I can describe how a person looks, but ask me to identify who they are and I'm a total blank. It's not that I don't even remember their names...I KNOW what the available names are, I just can't match them to their owners and sometimes, if given a physical description, can't properly match it to IT'S owner. It's just hard to explain but MAN, people are confusing

MystyGlyttyr, am I remembering correctly that you have described yourself as being on the autistic spectrum? Because face-blindness is not at ALL uncommon for autistic people and those with Asperger's. (It's also not uncommon for those of us with ADHD, but in that case it's more a matter of the faces not being "encoded" into memory properly - that's what they say anyway, although I've failed to recognise family members so I don't think that bit's quite right).

Anyway, try googling "face blindness" or prosopagnosia sometime. You may be surprised!

Oh, on-topicness... I dyed my hair purple once while working at a general store in a small town. Amazingly, all the little old lady customers absolutely loved my hair and thought it was the cutest thing ever .

[Lace Neil Singer]

I know the feeling, as I'm great with faces but matching names to faces is impossible. I remember someone by their face, but remembering their name? Impossible at least til I've known them a while.

[RichS]

I know the feeling, as I'm great with faces but matching names to faces is impossible. I remember someone by their face, but remembering their name? Impossible at least til I've known them a while.

That happened to me after a car accident - before, I was great with names. Now, I can remember faces, but the names escape me if I haven't seen them in awhile.

It also affects me with objects as well. Example - I'm holding, say, a screwdriver. I know it's a tool, I know its function, but sometimes I can't remember what it's called.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Just call it a "whatsit"; the word "thingy" I find tends to provoke sniggers.

[ominousoat]

I'm not a horribly attractive guy. I mean, I won't maked "Sexiest Man Alive" and I do have an overgrown jaw on one side which makes me a bit lopside, but I know I'm above "face only a mother could love." However...

When I was working at the grocery store there was a ice queen there. Seriously, she was the coldest, most evil woman I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, not to mention she had features you could cut your wrists on. Anyhow, one say I overheard her referring to me as "The Poster Child for Abortion" and went on the say she "Couldn't even look at me without getting the creeps." Just a little bit extreme.


When I worked at the gas station one day a man came up to the counter and said (I swear to God):

"Whoa! You're ugly! Hey there ugly!"

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Well, ugly is skin deep, but stupid is to the bone.

[iradney]

Or as Judge Judy likes to day "Beauty fades, but Stupid is forever"

[Primer]

As a teacher, I have the dubious honor of trying to learn an average of 100 new names/faces every semester. One thing I have noticed is that the older I get, the more the students seem to look alike.

I do tell them on the first day of class, that I will try to learn everybody's name, but there will be a few that I just cannot. At the end of the semester, there is always a handful of people that I just cannot recognize.

Then there are some that years later, I recognize their face, but cannot remember their name!

Ahhh, the joys of getting older... (but it's better than NOT getting older!)

[GayleShy]

I had some woman return a shirt that was too big for her and say, "there is no way this is is a large. Look at it, it's so huge it would even fit you." I was SO pissed off. I'm not huge, but I'm not thin and my chest is a 38DD, which I'm rather sensitive about. Someone said I should have been flattered, because that could have been what she was taking about, but I wasn't. If they would have heard her tone they wouldn't have been flattered either. It was very condencending.

[MystyGlyttyr]

MystyGlyttyr, am I remembering correctly that you have described yourself as being on the autistic spectrum? Because face-blindness is not at ALL uncommon for autistic people and those with Asperger's. (It's also not uncommon for those of us with ADHD, but in that case it's more a matter of the faces not being "encoded" into memory properly - that's what they say anyway, although I've failed to recognise family members so I don't think that bit's quite right).

CRAP. Every time I think I've finally pinned down everything, I find out something else that I didn't realize everyone doesn't do.

I did remember that during college, right after 9-11, I dyed my hair red, then bleached white stripes and blue stripes into it. Everyone on campus loved it, even my older teachers...except the crotechedy 500-year-old fossil who was constantly trying to inform me that America was the greatest evil ever including Hitler blah blah blah.*

*Mysty doesn't care about your politics as long as you don't try to push them on her while you're supposed to be teaching her history. In which case she will respond by leaving white donut powder all over your desk and laugh while you freak out. Not so proud of that five years later, but hey, we were all stupid in college...