Nobody is tricked by that ploy.
I still do it, but I’ve had some success with just being honest - that I’m sorry for not being able to remember people’s names.
Sometimes I’ll ask them to add themselves as a contact on my phone with a description, so I can remember better … at least one person found that charming, lol
My memory is “timeless.” That is to say, if I am able to recall something, I don’t necessarily have a time frame for when it happened. Something that happened yesterday can seem like a distant memory while something from childhood feels like it happened yesterday.
Rather problematic. I probably have SDAM(severly deficient autobiographical memory) so there is no lived through part of memory. “Making memories” literally doesn’t work for me. There is only factual information saved, just a long black and white list in a notebook, but that one is scrambled by ADHD. So my memory is just a pile of keywords thrown on the ground.
The only reliable memory type is just muscle memory.
I call everyone mate and people put it down to me being Australian, which I am.
I’m good with faces, terrible with names. I need to be very familiar with you before I’ll remember your name.
