Do you notice strange things about people?

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What I mean is...do you notice small details about someone you know? I'll give you an example. My biology professor always wears really pretty earrings each time I see her. I always notice things about her earrings like how big they are, their color(s), and the shape. Does anyone else do this about people?

Yep.


I memorized the wardrobe of this one girl at school and after-school daycare.


I also memorized when and where Maria, Leisl and Louisa wear what clothes in The Sound of Music.


And evrything Eliza wore and when, in My Fair Lady, and the same thing for Rose in Titanic.

Oh yes oh yes oh yes. I have had one teacher who become frustrated with me for zoning out. What i was really doing was being distracted by her Weird, pastel 'mom' sweaters. I swear iwould become entranced by them. They were the reason i could not pay attention in the class for crap! Those knitted sweaters that had pictures of animals knitted in a relief pattern, all across the bottom. I was fascinated by them. I would, almost in a reflex motion become fixated on the texture and color choices. They disgusted me at how gaudy and weird they were. I once saw a christmas sweater like that. It looked like santa claus was coming out right at you. In spite of that, they are knitting works of art. These patterns are usually knitted into three dimensional pieces, which is difficult to begin with. Colors and textures and fat stitching with cotton yarn. How the hell is someone supposed to pay attention with that kind of distraction walking around the room? Once that one thing catches your eye, your mind is on that one thing all the time.

I don't usually notice these things.

Tim

I noticed that the actors who played Roger Bannister and his friends, Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway in the movie Four Minutes, strongly resembled the real runners. They did great casting. The actress who played Roger Bannister's future wife, Moyra, doesn't look like Roger's real wife at all, however.

I love watching people at the beach...people do the strangest things.

I'm always called weird when I notice that clothes/jewelry/shoes, etc. in TV shows, movies, whatever, are not exactly right. I notice stupid things that make me shout rude and obnoxious things at the TV during commercials and even the shows!

I am usually distracted by people's clothes. It's distressing some times. You notice one little string on a sweater and suddenly you're imagining pulling it and unravelling the entire sweater. Something sparkles and you're suddenly entranced by it.

What springs to mind is that I notice these things on tv & in movies. If they are switching back & forth between two actors in a conversation for example, I can tell if they moved objects, hair out of place, wrinkles in clothing change, etc very quickly. They assume 'the little things' will go unnoticed.

I am the opposite...almost blind to what people are wearing,how they wear their hair,etc.I think it is one reason I have a hard time remebering people(they say face blind people often notice these details to help recognise someone.)I dont know if I'm face blind or not(dont think so,unless the people look a lot a like)There have been movies that I became very confussed during because all the women had blond hair and were about the same age...but I can tell my coworkers apart because they are all different genders,ages,ethnicities...I recognize voices pretty well.None of that helps me remember their names unfortunately...that I have to "reteach" myself every day I go in...very embarassing

I only notice if it's interesting, and then I can't take my focus off of it. For example, I was at a party for my daughter the other day (one of her little friends birthdays) and one of the other moms had a really cool pair of eyeglasses on. I could not stop looking, to the point I felt embarassed, but I was just compelled. When I see something visually interesting, I have to look.

Sometimes I think it's only the strange things that I notice.

Yes, with people I work with. A lot of the women wear those crazy 'scrub' tops that are so gaudy and distracting. One woman has tops for every season but she brings each season out too early- for instance, the autumn tops start getting worn in late summer which upsets me and I always feel compelled to correct her- as in, "It's not fall yet." The whole thing is just silly.
I also work with mostly African-American women who change hairstyles all the time, everything from length to color to texture. Very distracting indeed!

Alright, I'll confess. I notice things that I wish I didn't. Once I was studying/practicing a certain religion and it was difficult because I didn't know anyone else who practiced that religion. I thought how nice it would be if I could meet someone who was knowledgeable about the tenets of the religion, someone whom I could talk to about it and exchange views. So one day, I meet a woman on the train who gets off at the same stop as me, and waits for the train at the same station I wait. She saw me with my books and said "Oh, I was raised in that faith. My parents still practice it. We started to have a nice conversation when I looked at her and noticed that she had an enormous amount of nose hair filling up her nostrils and sticking out of them. It appeared that her nostrils were completely blocked with steel wool. I couldn't stop focusing on her nose hair and it was really a turn off. I couldn't understand how anyone could live or go out into public with their nose packed full of wiry hair. I avoided her after that. I'm not proud of my behavior. It's not very charitable to reject people for having too much nose hair, it's very superficial of me, and who knows, she might have been the best friend any person could ever hope to have.