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Verdandi
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10 Jun 2011, 2:29 am

FearOfMusic wrote:
This is kind of amusing. When I look at the pictures of Hugh Laurie right next to each other I still don't see them as the same person whatsoever, they just don't look like the same face at all to me. I can kind of see the similarities in the Joe Pantoliano but if they weren't right next to each other I don't think I would guess they were the same person.


Yeah, I found it funny too.

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I have some difficulty remembering/recognizing faces, though I don't necessarily know that many people so I tend to see the same faces over and over. I can recall two times this year so far where people started a conversation with me and even by the time we were done talking I still had no idea who they were. In one of the instances I asked my friend who it was and then I realized I had met the person before. The other occasion still has me wonder just who the hell I was talking too. Usually when I don't recognize someone just hearing a voice or starting a conversation is enough to figure out how it is. I find it quite distributing when someone knows me but I don't know them.


This happened to me frequently enough in the mid-90s that I started joking that I must have an evil twin who met all these people first, although it became clear to me eventually that they had met me.



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10 Jun 2011, 10:59 am

jcanico wrote:
I've always had difficulty recogniseing faces. People have stopped me and had a conversation and even after they have gone i still cant remember where or when i met them before.

Most embaresing was being stopped by someone who i had been 'intimate' with and i still didnt know who they were. I worked it out days after. :oops:


That happens to me, too. I have strange people coming to me and starting a conversation, and they turn out to be people that I know.

And I get angry messages from people who feel hurt because I have not greeted them.

Just recently I noticed my wife come out of the bus I was riding on the same bus stop. I recognized her then, but not while on the bus. Somewhat frustrating. She said she did not try to get my attention on the bus, because she knew that I probably did not recognize her and she was sitting in the front and I went straight to the back.


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