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I have, like, the opposite of this. I have an absolutely excellent face memory. I subjectively experience this as a separate unconscious bit of data that automa
by munificent 6y ago
I have, like, the opposite of this. I have an absolutely excellent face memory. I subjectively experience this as a separate unconscious bit of data that automatically appears in my mind when I look at someone: true if I've ever seen them before, false otherwise. I think most people have that same natural "ah-ha" or natural moment of recognition. For me, it seems to be stronger than most, based on a couple of online facial memory tests.
A weird side effect of this is that over the years I have often recognized people I'd who clearly didn't recognize me. In order to not embarrass them by remembering them when they don't recall me, I've unintentionally adopted the habit of waiting until I see a hint of recognition from others before I respond in kind. Brains are weird.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoYou're a super recogniser (https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=Prosopagnosia%20%22super%20recognisers%22 https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=Prosopagnosia%20%22super%...). I wouldn't mind a bit of what you've got.
- munificent 6y agoI would happily trade it in for a better sense of direction. If it wasn't for Google Maps, I would never be able to get anywhere.
- dsego 6y agoI also have a bad sense of direction and I had to learn not rely on my intuition/sense and instead to look for landmarks and other cues. Sometimes an area looks familiar but really isn't or I'm actually going the opposite way of where I'm supposed to.
- munificent 6y agoI do that too, but my brain isn't good at rotating large objects in 3D space (small ones are fine). So if I go through a familiar intersection in a different direction, I won't recognize it. Landmarks coming from another direction look different to me. :-/