Comments on: You Say Potato I say Podcast

By: dv

dv — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 01:19:20 +0000

I think I have mentioned my theory before about “summoning” a person’s real self by saying their name. Otherwise you are just dealing with their automatic, placeholder self.

By: freddy

freddy — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:57:48 +0000

I am so face-blind. It causes me so much anxiety. I feel like I basically just look like a self-important asshole constantly.

By: ericka

ericka — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:10:32 +0000

Do your students know about this? How do you handle it with them? SO CURIOUS

By: Allie

Allie — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:21:15 +0000

oh my god YES on the “person you know in one context being unrecognizable in another context”. i have some kind of face blindness, as well, particularly with colleagues (many, many instances of glancing away from someone i’m not sure i recognize just as they are saying hi to me). but i recently saw a favorite bartender, as a patron at another bar, and was SO CONFUSED. i knew i recognized him, but FROM WHERE?! why, brain, why.