Are you like me? Are you horrible about remembering names?

[SnackTime]

[gorydetails]

Apparently Biden is even when it's written right in front of him.

[SnackTime]

It’s like having a calculator in your hand, and still flunking your arithmetic test.

[SnackTime]

I gave you the prize for noticing Biden and the button in the picture. ROTFLMAO
I thought that a picture was worth a thousand words, but not on this site.

[gorydetails]

Most aren’t too bright on this website.

[Pterodon]

I’m bad but Biden’s gaffe was inexcusable

[SnackTime]

MTG set him up good on that one. lol

[Summeroflove]

What was even more disgusting is Biden apologizing to the murder. It was Marjorie Taylor-Greene who made Biden go off script this is why they have to keep Biden locked away in a basement. What the real question is what drugs they had him on? Maybe meth? Cocaine? Adrenochrome?

[SnackTime]

He was definitely hopped up on something. And apologizing to a ruthless killer, is one of the most cowardly things I’ve ever heard of.

[Summeroflove]

Yeah that’s Biden for you I would feel sorry for him if he wasn’t a piece of shit.

[Tiptoetamm]

Im terrible at remembering names. I'll remember your face before I'll remember your name. I always feel so bad when someone comes up to me. Remembers me remembers my name and I just can't place them or remember their name. Haha I will always just avoid saying names and use other words and hope I hear their name soon. Haha

[Kulotz]

I am very bad at remembering names.. And my brain gives a random name to the person and I call them with that name without realizing that I attribute that name which is quite embarrassing and rude

[SnackTime]

Same here.

[Dinklex3]

Omg. I’m terrible with names and faces.

It took me 7 months to learn the names of people in my graduating class. I will don’t know 1.
As a kid (21) I kept getting my roommates face mixed up with other chicks on campus. Her face and style blended in with others so I was confused.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I'm so bad that I forgot my wife's name three times in a row when we first met. However, she forgave me since our mutual friends told her I've done that with almost everyone.

I also remembered almost every single detail of our previous conversations except her name which took her aback like, "Wow, how did you remember that but can't remember my name?"

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Proper nouns and numbers are the most difficult for me. I think it's because my memories are mostly nonverbal in nature. I don't remember exact words so well.

I remember something more like a silent film with visuals, sounds (but not words), music, tactile qualities, smells, tastes, but not words verbatim. Yet I can usually recall the gist of what the words are spoken because I can play back the silent film in my head and infer most of it.

But with proper nouns and numbers like phone numbers, that has to be so exact, so verbatim, or else it's wrong. That requires too much precision for the way my memory works

Yet I tend to alarm people with how well my non-verbatim memory works like I'd ask my bartender, "Who was that guy who has shown up twice now? Both times he ordered three shots of dark rum and then a snack, the first time being mixed nuts and the second combu. He has a soft spot for pirates films and loves to vacation in the Phillipines. Both times he showed up, he wore a black suit together with a white shirt, and he had what looked like a coffee stain on his left cuff. [...]"

Bartender: "That's Hiroshi! Wow, how did you remember all that? You didn't even talk to him! But you can't remember his name?"
Me: "Yeah, my memory is kind of weird."

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Or perhaps another analogy is pixel art:

Pixel art is extremely low resolution so with limited memory, we can still store a boatload of it. I think that's what my brain does in a way is that it reduces everything to its lowest-resolution representation so that I can remember a whole lot at a low-resolution level.

Yet if we imagine like a 16x16 pixel canvas, that can represent a whole lot of things but it doesn't have enough pixels to store a name or a phone number. It can represent like a dog, cat, tree, flower, suit, pizza, soccer ball, computer, all sorts of stuff, but it doesn't have enough room to represent text except for like a single letter.

[Purpleronnie]

Not horrible , sometimes I will just draw a blank for no reason but In my defense some people are just NOT that memorable

[SnackTime]

True

[strateguy632]

um "say her name" yikes, they know it was needed to instruct, but he is "fit" sarcasm.

[SnackTime]

I think that was a setup, and he took the bait.

[Avicenna]

No, but I am not as good at it as some people I've met

[SnackTime]

It helps to be holding a button with their name on it. lol

[Avicenna]

That definitely helps

[Sonorous]

Yes. But only because I don't usually put a lot of conscious effort in remembering names.

[SnackTime]

So true. I’ve been introduced to people in before, and when they told me their name, I didn’t even hear it. I didn’t hear it because I didn’t wanna hear it..

[Sonorous]

🤣 Exactly! I'm like this because I notice I prefer to know the worth of the person I'm interacting with before I make any efforts in remembering names. We will forget most people we encounter anyway so I like to be picky.

[DarkWinterNights]

Not too bad… but you get it wrong ONE time and she never speaks to you again 🙄

[SnackTime]

You need to switch to using terms of endearment. Like honey and sweetie.

[Night_Descends]

Yeah. Especially in my uni, I got terrible at remembering names. I do remember the faces of the people I meet but names slip my mind every now and then.

[Dargil]

I'd begin worrying about dementia if I wasn't just as bad when I was in my late teens. I could remember names worth of darn.

[Billlewis]

I doubt whether I could ever forget your name;)

[euniestars]

omggg yes i have to have nicknames for people 😭

[SnackTime]

Me too.

[David94358]

Yep 100% I'm terrible with remembering names

[OtterMan68]

yes, yes I am.
I'm great with faces, but not names

[Sam12348]

I'm bad at remembering faces

[SnackTime]

I'm good with that. Actually, you look familiar.

[Sam12348]

That's good

[Sam12348]

Wanna share your thoughts on my posts?

[SnackTime]

Maybe. Post the links.

[Sam12348]

Click on my username and you'll see those

[SnackTime]

I will do it tomorrow. Sleep time for me.

[FreyaRed]

I remember names when I read them.

[slatyb]

I write them down. Helps a lot.

[sheikalana]

Yea I often forget people's names.

[Berweic]

No, not at all! I'm good at remembering names.

[katiesmuff]

Absolutely I am

[laly520]

sometimes

[JHAYES317]

Yes I am