07-02-2017, 12:18 PM
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I have difficulty recognising faces!
As I have got older I have more difficulty recognising faces than I used to, especially those of other women. As you can imagine this can be rather embarrassing to say the least. This morning I was in the supermarket and a woman said 'Hello', I just didn't recognise her even though she is a neighbour. I don't see her that often, but even so I should have known who she was. Of course I was most apologetic and she was nice about it! I would recognise her car though! Strangely enough although I am not an animal person, I recognise dogs better than their owners, WEIRD!!!!
Does anyone else have this problem?
07-02-2017, 12:30 PM
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Re: I have difficulty recognising faces!
I suspect that we all do this at times,
A change of hairstyle, unusual clothing, or even a different environment can make people look different. A dog rarely changes his hairstyle, doesn't wear clothes, and is usually with it's owner, so is a big help when trying to recognize the person at the other end of the lead.
07-02-2017, 12:32 PM
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Tara, l think you must be suffering 'face blindness'!!I also think it's when you see people out of the place where you normally see them!
A man said, 'Hello' to me in a shop the other day and l didn't recognise him! When he took his Andy cap off, l recognised it was someone l went out with for quite a while, two years ago! He never wore a cap when l went out with him!
I did blush with embarrassment!
07-02-2017, 01:22 PM
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I have no difficulty recognising the faces of people with whom I am well acquainted, or have known for along time, even if I don't see them very often. It is people I have a passing acquaintance with like those who live nearby, but I don't see often. I just don't take in their features, unless they are very striking, as I said I find women's faces more difficult than those of men.
07-02-2017, 01:24 PM
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My next door neighbour was approached in a supermarket recently and was told 'your children are growing up fast!'She responded rather rudely 'I don't know you...'
The other person said 'I'm your neighbour!'
She has lived here from the very beginning, as have I. Neighbour with children has probably been here about 8 years? Not quite sure.
Anyway, they both related the story to me, with the longest serving neighbour getting very angry and swearing about NDN. NDN was almost as bad. I said to her 'don't you know who your neighbours are?' True, we are opposite ends of a block of 18 flats (6+6+6). But come on...!
NDN does tend to walk about with her nose to the ground so doesn't pay attention to who lives here, apart from the children.
I felt like the piggy in the middle with this incident.
07-02-2017, 02:13 PM
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Re: I have difficulty recognising faces!
Originally Posted by Jazzi
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My next door neighbour was approached in a supermarket recently and was told 'your children are growing up fast!'She responded rather rudely 'I don't know you...'
The other person said 'I'm your neighbour!'
She has lived here from the very beginning, as have I. Neighbour with children has probably been here about 8 years? Not quite sure.
Anyway, they both related the story to me, with the longest serving neighbour getting very angry and swearing about NDN. NDN was almost as bad. I said to her 'don't you know who your neighbours are?' True, we are opposite ends of a block of 18 flats (6+6+6). But come on...!
NDN does tend to walk about with her nose to the ground so doesn't pay attention to who lives here, apart from the children.
I felt like the piggy in the middle with this incident.
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