I’ve been having some trouble recognizing people recently. I say recently, this has been going on for around ten years now. For some reason I am incredibly slow at recognizing faces, and often I completely forget who people are. It helps if I associate something else with any given person, such as glasses, a style of dressing, or massive boobs. Faces just don’t do it for me, and being in Thailand only serves to make things worse.

I first noticed that this could be problematic when I was at uni and I would say hello to complete strangers thinking they were my friends. I’d often wave emphatically at people in the street and wonder why nobody was waving back.

Thai people, to a foreigner, are difficult to recognize at the best of times. My problems are heightened by going to parties where I half-know a lot of people and where some people only know me through MySpace or msn. This is disconcerting at the best of times. People will often come and say hello or come and talk to me and I will have no idea who they are. What’s worse is that I’m really bad at hiding my confusion. It took me three meetings and a series of e-mails to recognize Chris Otchy from BK mag, and he’s not even Thai.

Another girl came up to me after I knew she was coming to Club Pros one Tuesday: She said hi, asked how I was, and I just stared at her. I then forgot her name and called her Amy which made things worse. This was five minutes after seeing her drive by Club Pros in her car.

It doesn’t help that I meet so many people who I immediately forget about. People often think I’m being rude or am just stupid, but really I have no idea what’s going on. I’m sure part of it is that I generally don’t like people so I make very little mental effort to remember who anyone I meet is, but even with people I like I get confused.

What the hell is wrong with me? I also get lost a lot and forget where places are and lose my keys every day (in my room).

Techno’ tags: Forgetful, Faces, Bangkok, Thailand