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Neuromancer
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19 Aug 2007, 2:03 pm

ChatBrat wrote:
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one thing that i have noticed about this trait is, it really pisses off black people... i've been accused of being racist because i can't tell one black person from another... but it happens with white people too, and especially with asians... all races really... black people tend to be really sensitive about this in particular


I don't know if it's true or not, but I've heard that every race has trouble recognizing other races and clumps them together saying "they all look alike".


I think this happens in relation to "strange people": if you live among white people you will recognize them better them others, but if you live among black people you recognize them better and so on.


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19 Aug 2007, 2:49 pm

Oh in College I'm famous for it. :D I always forget people's names and they joke about it. :lol:


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19 Aug 2007, 3:37 pm

Yes me too! I'm terrible at recalling ppl's names or faces. I always get my neices and newphews names mixed up and call them the wrong name. But, i don't see them very much like after a year and kids change allot in that time.

Oddly, i can recognize ppl at a distance by the way they move or walk. It's the face blindness that i have a problem with.



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19 Aug 2007, 4:22 pm

I have no problem remembering a face or the person connected with it, but I'm terrible with names