I’m 5 too and I worked out it was different than most people what I was around 6yo when some kid in kindergarten asked me what my mum looked like and I said I didn’t know but all the other kids knew what their mum’s looked like.
40 odd years later and i still can’t picture my mother, wife, kids, friends or work colleagues in my head, I couldn’t give you a detailed description but I’ve trained myself to memorise features but it’s more like memorising how to spell a word than an image
Do you still recognise people even if you can’t picture them without seeing them? I’m assuming you definitely know your parents lol, but if you were to see the same cashier multiple times or something would you realise or do you just forget what they looked like?
Yeah the cashier thing, I don’t think I recognise seeing the same person a few times but like the coffee shop down the road I recognise them there.
One funny encounter I had was a few years ago I had just started a new job and on the second day the boss had keys I needed the following day, we both happened to live near each other and he said to met him at a local shop’s carpark and exchange the keys, he beat me there so I had to look for him and realised I hadn’t memorise any of his features, so I’m there walking around the carpark just looking in cars for a person sitting in a car and saw a guy but he didn’t make any movement so thought it wasn’t him so kept walking then he gets out and calls out to me. I could tell he thought it was weird I had stared at him for a few seconds and then walked away…
I’m 5 too and I worked out it was different than most people what I was around 6yo when some kid in kindergarten asked me what my mum looked like and I said I didn’t know but all the other kids knew what their mum’s looked like.
40 odd years later and i still can’t picture my mother, wife, kids, friends or work colleagues in my head, I couldn’t give you a detailed description but I’ve trained myself to memorise features but it’s more like memorising how to spell a word than an image
Do you still recognise people even if you can’t picture them without seeing them? I’m assuming you definitely know your parents lol, but if you were to see the same cashier multiple times or something would you realise or do you just forget what they looked like?
Yeah the cashier thing, I don’t think I recognise seeing the same person a few times but like the coffee shop down the road I recognise them there.
One funny encounter I had was a few years ago I had just started a new job and on the second day the boss had keys I needed the following day, we both happened to live near each other and he said to met him at a local shop’s carpark and exchange the keys, he beat me there so I had to look for him and realised I hadn’t memorise any of his features, so I’m there walking around the carpark just looking in cars for a person sitting in a car and saw a guy but he didn’t make any movement so thought it wasn’t him so kept walking then he gets out and calls out to me. I could tell he thought it was weird I had stared at him for a few seconds and then walked away…