I’m reading a sci-fi book that N read in the early 1990s. And he remembers the plot down to the small details!
I’ll be lucky if I remember the plot 3 months from now, let alone in 30 years. I already forgot the title 4 times.
If only I could remember the details of everything I read. That would make my life so much easier.
I’m that freakish character who rereads a whodunit for the fifth time and is shocked anew by the discovery of the murderer’s identity.
It’s even worse with people. Twice yesterday I was stopped by people who knew my name and were very glad to see me, and I could have sworn I never saw their faces before.
Did I tell that story before about meeting my ex-husband on the subway and not recognizing him? To compensate for having not the foggiest idea who he was, I pretended to be very happy to see him, which of course made him think there was a chance of us getting back together. Took me weeks to get him to understand that there was no chance. “But you looked so happy when you saw me!” he kept repeating. I didn’t have the heart to tell him the truth. How is one supposed to tell a person, “I forgot what you looked like even though we’ve been separated for less than a year”?
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Wow that sounds like an odd memory. I couldn’t imagine forgetting what a close person looked like that fast. Yet you have the ability to learn all these languages!
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Face blindness is a real thing. My husband has it to a degree (he, like you, forgets plots of books and shows very quickly, so maybe this is connected to face blindness). I also have a colleague who has pretty severe face blindness and routinely offends people because he simply doesn’t recognize them.
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I usually remember books, but movie plots are extremely forgettable. Sometimes I don’t even remember seeing the movie, even though my husband swears we watched it, in the theater, on a date night, and he remembers every detail of it. It’s like I wasn’t even there.
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