I have actually failed to recognize people. Usually it's a context thing, like when a woman I only ever saw casually at D&D games turned up dressed to the nines at a Christmas party, and I didn't recognize her. She was unaccountably affronted.
Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.
Harmony ,'First Date'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
Zenkitty - Jul 21, 2012 2:50:44 pm PDT #9946 of 11998
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Theodosia - Jul 21, 2012 3:00:40 pm PDT #9947 of 11998
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I have walked past family members on the street, but that's me thinking really hard as opposed to face blindness.
§ ita § - Jul 21, 2012 3:03:17 pm PDT #9948 of 11998
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The times I haven't recognised people, I've actually managed to excuse myself, that's the thing. I have reasonably few cases of me kicking myself and going "Damn! You really should have known him!"
Well, there was cousin Alex at that wedding, but they stopped us before it was not lega...it was always gonna be legal--they stopped before it was gonna be scarifying.
Ha! Just think. I could have been one of the descriptors at a family wedding.
Remember the New York incest wedding? OMG, great buffet, right? There should always be all you can eat plantain!
JenP - Jul 21, 2012 3:07:12 pm PDT #9949 of 11998
I have actually failed to recognize people. Usually it's a context thing
That happened to me freshman year at college. I rounded the corner in the campus convenience store and, ran into this guy, and I stood there with my mouth hanging open, because I 100% knew I knew him, but I could not make my brain get there. He was a guy I knew from high school - not a close friend, obvs. He seemed pretty annoyed when he said, "it's Paul. From A.I." Not my most graceful moment ever. We chatted a bit, but I think he remained kind of offendedish. Sorry, Paul.
ETA: It's happened with people I've met briefly, too, but Paul was totally a context thing. If I'd seen him at home, I wouldn't have choked like that.
Amy - Jul 21, 2012 3:13:59 pm PDT #9950 of 11998
Because books.
See, it never occurred to me to worry that I wouldn't recognize people if I saw them. It just disturbed me that I would try to picture, say, my mom's whole face and get pieces instead of the whole thing.
The context thing does make a difference, too.
JenP - Jul 21, 2012 3:17:07 pm PDT #9951 of 11998
I don't really worry about either thing. Watch, I'll have a dream tonight about sudden onset face blindness because of you all...
Consuela - Jul 21, 2012 9:07:46 pm PDT #9952 of 11998
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My oldest brother showed up out of the blue in my dorm room my freshman year of college, and I honest to goodness didn't recognize him for a moment, because he was so completely out of context. Very strange.
JenP - Jul 22, 2012 3:59:45 am PDT #9953 of 11998
Right? Context is very helpful,
(Edited. Wrong thread.)
§ ita § - Jul 22, 2012 4:23:47 am PDT #9954 of 11998
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think I've had that problem--well not one I could resolve, anyway. If I can't recognise you out of context, you are not in my facial recognition system, period. I needed that space for someone else, and you and I, we're going to have to start from scratch. But that's an interesting issue.
And, wow, is this ever matter...
JenP - Jul 22, 2012 4:32:29 am PDT #9955 of 11998
Here's my attempt at bringing it back around...
They demonstrated on the show that people with face blindness use other clues about a person that might help them recognize, so I didn't really buy the friend being mistaken for the wife long term. Once, I could see, but the wife now living as the maid - her voice, or something, no recognition there at all? He "recognized" a stranger in a line up from a widow's peak and a voice recording. Show is not selling me on its plots.