Yes, I work in IT, and get paid well for it. But no, I don’t know what’s wrong withbyour PC, I can’t fix your e-mail, I can’t recomment any hardware for you, and I most definitely don’t know how to do that thing you’re asking about on windows 8, 10, or 11.
lol I don’t even work in IT, but I’m a software dev and I get the same damn questions. No, why the hell would I know how to fix your computer, I write software for sales people.
So you’re also a member of the House of the Penguin?
Reminds me of that subtle joke that I love but nobody else ever seems to get: Well, I defended my thesis in comparative literature, but it seems like he’s got a pretty healthy pulse to me…
buh buh buh you said you’re doctor ____
Physical therapy… I don’t know (care) why your shoulder hurts.
I’m mostly face blind. I work in optical, so I remember people by their glasses and how they move/walk. I have to have seen someone numerous times before I.can memorize their face enough to identify them, and even then if they look like a celebrity even a little bit my memory will corrupt and I’ll just see the celebrity in my head and forget what they look like.
I’ve just gotten very good at bullshitting through conversations
Face blind club fist bump. 🤜🤛 I struggle for the first few hours of a new show to tell characters apart if they aren’t wildly different in some way. And when someone I know gets a haircut all bets are off…
Omg! Have you tried to watch peaky blinders? For all i know it has 3 characters.
Yeah same here but I work at a restaurant. It took me two weeks te remember the name and face of my boss
I have so many meetings with people that i don’t recognize! Actually virtual meetings have been good because i spend an hour looking at people with their name beside them.
Do you have a visual memory or imagination for other things? My friends say they see things in their heads.
I can conjure images pretty easily, and I see patterns in everything
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Of course not. But also, I need that wallet and watch back.
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born with a heart full of neutrality
Truly horrible sense of direction/inability to navigate without GPS. People can be real dicks about this.
They really can be. I get lost stupidly easily. I have a pretty great sense of time though.
Poeple get so mad when I’m driving them somewhere and I insist on using my GPS. “But I’m your GPS!” Yeah well maybe I want to see how many streets before the turn, or I want alerts about debri, police or road construction.
Exactly. It has real time information that they simply don’t have. It makes sense to use it every time you drive.
I don’t like being in the sun. It seems like a normal preference, but I constantly need to explain why (the heat makes it difficult to think, I got sensitive skin, etc. )
It’s especially annoying in a country where most of the population seems to be some kind of sun worshipper :)deleted by creator
My difficulty remembering names and where I might know them from doesn’t mean I don’t care or have no memory of them. No, memory tricks do not work and three decades of trying was enough. Just let me know who and where and the memories will come flooding back.
ADHD really sucks when people frequently put so much importance on remembering the ‘right’ details like names. Not rmembering your name does not mean I don’t like you, it means my brain filed it away a couple years ago!
Every time I meet someone I warn them I’ll probably can them Francis for the first few weeks, it’s the only name I remember. After that they usually get a laugh out of it and play along until either the name sticks or they get a nick name.
As an ex musician I lost about half my hearing on both sides. When there’s multiple people speaking in the same room, too loud background music / other sounds or when people talk to me from the next room, I won’t be able to understand a single word.
Also my bones got the density of dry wall due to an illness and many kinds of physical activities can be outright dangerous for me. I broke one of my ribs about a week ago carrying a box upstairs to my new gaff. Slightly bumped it in my side on the banister. Big ouch.
Generally, it’s easier for the internet to understand. But I cannot date because I’m incompatible with other people in a very specific, but essential way. I tend not to explain it to people irl because it’s too awkward and not really essential that people know, but I have tried before.
