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Originally Posted by kepp
I'm terrible with names, so I'll usually recognize their face and forget their name. Then they remember my name, and it's just awkward from there. So...no, I usually don't enjoy it much.
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I don't mind if people forget my name when I have remembered theirs. My memory is terrifyingly good. I know most people don't have that so I don't take it personally that someone forgot my name. I don't have what Marilu Henner has with the remembering every single detail of every day, but I don't forget people that I had a significant amount of interaction with ever. I forget people I met once or twice for a little while, but sometimes go into recall mode where a bunch of people show up in my memory again all of the sudden.
There have been a couple of times when I have not recognized someone immediately, but I had never forgotten them, they just didn't have a beard and moustache the last time I saw them in the third grade or lost a huge amount of weight or something to make the recognition harder.
Everybody's memory is different. I don't do anything to remember well. It just happens. There is nothing personal about whether you remember or not. I hope I don't make people uncomfortable when I run into them. I always assume they won't remember me, and start the conversation from that perspective.