Request for techniques to help with work/social stuff

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I'm starting a new job soon and I will have lots of names and faces to learn, which is a real struggle for me. Can anyone recommend techniques to help with this?

Also, I have a mild auditory processing disorder and sometimes need to ask people to repeat themselves. I'm thinking of explaining that I have a slight hearing problem so people don't get too annoyed, or can someone let me know what works well in this situation.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Names; you might want to try to apply distinct but uncomplicated and short positive adjectives to any new name that starts with the same letter as the name.

For example:
Sympathetic Sora.

About the APD thing, if I need to explain myself so that people don't think I'm mentally slow to understand them, I say exactly that. That I don't hear so well.

Yes, just say you can't hear well- that's easier for NT's to understand. As for remembering names- I got nothin'. Make everybody wear name tags? When I finally learn someone's name, then I run into them in a different place- blank.

I would not realy know, I have it as a problem aswell, I identify often an object with a person but it can be just a thought like picture you get when you think of there name. I don't realy like the idea of lying, I often say I just need to be told a couple of times but I don't know if that works with NTs and the workforce.

I usually try to go by seating. I can arrange the seating in the office by a diagram either in my head or drawn out, then memorize names to where they are located.

Of course, if I meet people in the hall or lunchroom then I'm in trouble!

I've found that imitating people is a good way to remember their names. It's not always a good idea to do so in front of them, though.

try to remember it in an image or repeat the words several times and learn it like "first whe got ot good friend jackeu then whe gonna meet jonathan" and stuff that works with my altough it sounds lame it helps me with remembering ting i even use it for objects like "next i need to meet my cool chair" and stuff xD for example ofcourse

What I wanted to add last night:

The technique of the adjective + name is one people use in huge classes for example to remember all the names in 1 day or so. I don't know if it works for those with ASDs, but it works well for me (ASD) and non-autistic people, too.