Poll on demand!!

[green_amber]

More follow up to yesterdya's poll for dalmeny. When I get a min (decidedly not now) I'll do a BB resident psychologist analysis:-) If you haven't done yesterday's poll, do now! - http://surliminal.livejournal.com/133027.html?mode=reply


[Poll #747174]

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

I don't generally have a problem with names or faces. I've often had the experience of recognising a face but not remembering the name, or even not remembering where I've met them (particularly when it's in a different context). But my understanding is that everyone gets that to some extent and I don't think I'm any worse than average at it.

I do sometimes have trouble remembering the word for things even though I know them very well (mild nominal aphasia). I usually try to get round the problem by describing the thing or what you do with it. So, for example, I might be talking about building a wall and say, "I need to get some ... er ... more ... those thingies, red, made of baked clay, rectangular ... [miming] you know, you build the wall out of them."

This sometimes happens with people's names too, but it's just as likely to be people I know well as people I don't.

I might forget a name ... but I might equally forget the words "name" or "face": "Ah, yes, it's Pat, isn't it? For a minute there I knew your ... err ... thing on the front of your head, has your eyes in, between your hair and your chin ... I mean, I recognised you but I couldn't remember your ... your thing that you're called ... you know, yours is Pat and mine is Doug ..."

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

LOvely - you sound like John hegley..

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Very kind of you to say so, but I don't think I can claim my utterances would qualify as poetry!

[nmg.livejournal.com]

but I might equally forget the words "name" or "face"

I thought that I was the only person my age who had senior moments like that...