Not Using Peoples Names

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I'm generally quite bad with names, as well as connecting names with faces, unless sombody has garnered my interest enough to the point where I associate a name/face togeather. --I have always been bad with this, to the point were the last job that I had for nearly two years, I only really knew the names of people in my immediate department, everyone else was just another face.

I have had TERRIBLE trouble with this in the fast.

I would NEVER use someones name... it made me feel like I was intruding their space (I know wtf).. I started to more, and now I don't really have a problem with it.

I still use "They" instead of he or she on occasion though.

I am also very bad at names. there was this teacher that in our special ed that would get everyone to say a kind of nickname of him, of which i never could. i am not able to say an adults name and mostly prefered to use an official name such as Mrs Example. and i am bad at remembering names, i often feel guilty for not knowing theres and was woried they would see it as disrespect.

Reading through this thread it would seem that it is a universal trait. Is that just because there weren't any responses from people not affected by this, or is it pretty much universal? This is one of the things about me that has actually made my wife upset. Apparently she doesn't like being called "hey you" who woulda thought. It's funny because I like to tell people about how our names each have 3.4 syllables, but I don't like saying either of the names. It has caused a couple blank stares from people waiting to hear what I was talking about.

I don't often use peoples names even if I know them well.