https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeQDRhidNnY
Sunday, July 2, 2017
i went for an unnecessarily long walk last night. in the end, it was a waste of time. but, it's not like i missed something better. this city was disturbingly quiet, last night.
in the process, i generated a lot of concern from passing motorists, who all wanted to give me a ride. every other block, it seemed. should i be impressed by the altruism of male windsorites, who were all out to help me get from a to b, out of the goodness of their little hearts?
i go over this repeatedly in the vlogs: if you were really concerned abut my safety, the first piece of advice you'd give me would be to not stop for random drivers while walking alone early in the morning. so, it's a non-starter. i'll never get in your car. i'll never even stop to give you the time of day. it's not even that i'm not friendly, it's just unacceptable to yell at people from your car.
so, i said "no" to a lot of people last night. and, i found myself humming this old tune....
in the process, i generated a lot of concern from passing motorists, who all wanted to give me a ride. every other block, it seemed. should i be impressed by the altruism of male windsorites, who were all out to help me get from a to b, out of the goodness of their little hearts?
i go over this repeatedly in the vlogs: if you were really concerned abut my safety, the first piece of advice you'd give me would be to not stop for random drivers while walking alone early in the morning. so, it's a non-starter. i'll never get in your car. i'll never even stop to give you the time of day. it's not even that i'm not friendly, it's just unacceptable to yell at people from your car.
so, i said "no" to a lot of people last night. and, i found myself humming this old tune....
i must have had a lot of lucky guesses. but, i'd also like to see a more direct breakdown.
see, i think i got most of the first part right, i found the second part difficult and if i got anything at all in the third part it was just a fluke.
after doing the test, i'm more convinced that it's a real possibility. but, i need to reiterate that i might just be bad with faces.
as an aside, i'm highly critical of self-assessments. this test is a good test.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/startup.php
see, i think i got most of the first part right, i found the second part difficult and if i got anything at all in the third part it was just a fluke.
after doing the test, i'm more convinced that it's a real possibility. but, i need to reiterate that i might just be bad with faces.
as an aside, i'm highly critical of self-assessments. this test is a good test.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/startup.php
i'm not diagnosed with this, but i did have a head injury when i was a kid and i've long believed i'm an undiagnosed asperger. i have all of the social cues, or lack thereof, of an asperger's case. but, i'm as high functioning as the charts get (i just can't get my head around people very well), so it would kind be a diagnosis without a disease, sort of thing. i may want to look into this more seriously the next time my odsp renews.
i tend to recognize people by other markers, like haircuts, body shapes and articles of clothing. or, i'll recognize somebody from a role or position, but then i might not recognize them outside that role. i could talk to you for an hour at the bank in the afternoon, and then not recognize you at the club the same night. so, if you have a really distinctive haircut, or some other flamboyant characteristic, i'll probably recognize you. i otherwise might not recognize you until i see you in a familiar article of clothing that i've seen you in before, or something else of the sort, even after i've seen you in multiple places and multiple contexts.
again: i'm not diagnosed. i might not have a brain injury; i might just be so hopelessly aloof that i can't or don't keep track of the people around me, because i live in my own head. it might just be that. but this reoccurs, and i am aware of it.
so, if i don't recognize you, i'm not trying to be rude. jog my memory. it's not that i don't remember, it's that i can't connect the dots.
or, play along and treat me like a new face every time, if you'd like that, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
i tend to recognize people by other markers, like haircuts, body shapes and articles of clothing. or, i'll recognize somebody from a role or position, but then i might not recognize them outside that role. i could talk to you for an hour at the bank in the afternoon, and then not recognize you at the club the same night. so, if you have a really distinctive haircut, or some other flamboyant characteristic, i'll probably recognize you. i otherwise might not recognize you until i see you in a familiar article of clothing that i've seen you in before, or something else of the sort, even after i've seen you in multiple places and multiple contexts.
again: i'm not diagnosed. i might not have a brain injury; i might just be so hopelessly aloof that i can't or don't keep track of the people around me, because i live in my own head. it might just be that. but this reoccurs, and i am aware of it.
so, if i don't recognize you, i'm not trying to be rude. jog my memory. it's not that i don't remember, it's that i can't connect the dots.
or, play along and treat me like a new face every time, if you'd like that, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
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