Remembering names and other oddities

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Aspieness or just weirdness?

I have trouble remembering names. Not just people I've newly met, but people I've known for a long time. Like today this guy at work. We've been working together now for 5 years or more. It's a small office with 10 employees. Everybody knows everybody. I started to ask him a question "blah blah <insert name>?' but when I got to his name nothing came out. This happens regularly with people I deal with daily.

What about character inversions when typing. I CONSTANTLY reverse letters. I think I did it half a dozen times or more in just this short post.

Phone numbers are torture. I can look at a number, start to enter it and forget it before I start the first number. I often have to do the first few numbers, look again, do some more, look again, do some more ...

Sequencing memories. I sometimes have trouble remembering the order things happened in my life. I have to really think hard to put things in sequence. Sequencing in general can be a real problem.

There's others. Can't think of them right now.

I have AS and I have a lot of those problems. I can't remember names, character inversions,ect.
I'm really bad with numbers. Even basic math is almost impossible for me to do " in my head". If I can write it down I'm fine.
I don't think I have any sequencing problems.
One thing that is a real problem for me is recognizing people. If they change hair style, or even dress differently I don't recognize them. I was once grocery shopping with my wife and I seen this woman that looked familiar, but I couldn't quite place were I had seen her before. My wife said " aren't you going to say hi to your sister?" She was coming home from work and was dressed up more than usual, and she had her hair different.

I have all these problems. The names thing is probably the most embarrassing. I have been reduced to pointing to people (that I have known for years) and saying, "You," because I could not remember their name.

I remember faces better than I remember names.

I forget the names for things in general. I'll know exactly what I want, know how it looks, feels, everything but the name.

"Could you pass me the... uh... *points*" "Water?" "Yes."

I am good at life sequencing, generally, rarely metathesize [I do not count typing slips].

But names I am very bad at, and phone numbers - I look it up, say it three times, start to dial while still repeating it and often need to hang up and start the process over. Same thing for measurements when I am building something, or counting scorde at games.

Same here. I'm terrible with names.

Do you also start your sentence in one language and somehow end it in another language?

I do that a lot.

I'm so out of it right now I started typing "post a reply". lol

wow. okay, so What I was trying to say is:
All of the above.
whew! That took everything out of me.

We learned in my special ed class that this is called dysnomia or anomia. The "it's on the tip of my tongue" thing. Professor said, jokingly, that it happens to the best of us every now and again. I was thinking, what if it happens all the time? Not so funny, then...

My friends think it's funny that I'll say things like "Yesterday I went to...that place...where, you know...you get that stuff to...you know...the place." (Accompanied by hand gestures/flapping as if trying to push the words out.) Or with remembering names: "You know...that guy who is friends with that girl? You know...that guy. The tall guy? With the ..." I tend to laugh it off as part of the AS, but don't think they quite get how frustrating it is to have it happen so often. Slowing down seems to help with the recall as does taking a couple deep breaths.
Especially embarrassing in groups of strangers. Happens more when my stress level is already high, but isn't always stress related. Online posts are easier because I can Google for the words I need.

(42 typing corrections needed for this post because of letter reversals--thank God for spell checks.)

my gosh I've found people like me:)

- had probs with remembering the names of people I've spent ages with or not recognising people I know and the names of things when trying to make conversation but didn't realise this was an aspie/autistic thing - comforting to know there are others like me.

Terrible with names and faces. If I meet a person in a completely different location I won't recognise them. I don't write backwards but jumbled up. I forget phone numbers so easily too. My spelling and math skills are pretty poor but I still write study physics. I just have poor memory for it but I can eventually do it.

People do laugh at me when I get stuck trying to think of a word. Naturally, I react negatively to it but I guess they think it's one of those things that everyone does sometimes and not all times like me.

I have problems with faces and names, but more with faces. I can remember song title, many words in other languages, but hardly somebody's name. My problem is people.