Passionately Promoting A More Perfect World

sinesalvatorem:

I made a post after seder about how I didn’t recognise any of the people there, and they thought I recognised them, and this is unfortunate because I basically didn’t meet anyone.

Unfortunately, not even siikr can find it anymore, so I can’t bring it back.

Anyway, I’m going to the Summer Solstice event today. If you want to meet me, please walk up to me and say who you are. I’d be happy to meet you! However, if you don’t do this, I will never recognise you. Never. We could have spoken for a year and exchanged pictures and been FB friends. I will N E V E R recognise you, because I am as faceblind as can be.

If you approach me and talk to me without introducing yourself, I will pretend to know you, because that’s the least awkward thing to do. I will not actually recognise you. You will probably think I did. Then I will go home and think “I wish I’d gotten to meet [person]”, because I will have NO IDEA that was you.

So, people, PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF. This happened with like TWENTY PEOPLE when I was at the seder. PLEASE do not allow it to happen again.

I semi-solved this problem! I walked up to a ton of people at random and stuck out my hand while saying “Hi! Do you remember me?”

If they did, I could ask them to tell me the details, since I couldn’t recognise them. If they said no, I could tell them that that was cool because I didn’t remember them either and this was entirely an attempt to overcome faceblindness. It worked pretty well! (Especially since almost no one approached me themself :( )