[ SECRET POST #3273 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3273 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

08. http://i.imgur.com/S04uMzK.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

nah, you're some degree of face blind

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently, F!S is some kind of mecca for people who are face blind to converge.

[raspberryrain]

I think most people have a little bit of face confusion, honestly? That's why cross-racial faceblindness is so common.

I think remembering faces and recognizing them out of context is a learned skill.

[(Anonymous)]

Really? As somebody who has never confused/not recognized somebody due to face-blindish stuff, all of this face-blind talk on F!S is so bizarre to me.

[raspberryrain]

How are you at distinguishing persons of an unfamiliar race, though?

[(Anonymous)]

Good. When I said I've never mistaken/mixed up anyone, that's people of all races. I have to admit, if I got into k-pop or something like that, it would probably take me a few weeks to get familiar with individual faces.

[raspberryrain]

Oh, well, some of us aren't as good at it as you.

I think it is somewhat a learned skill, although there may be neurological handicaps for the serious cases.

I expect there's a lot of overlap between certain kinds of fandom and the sort of person who's not used to distinguishing the differences in faces: There's the sort of person who reads books/webpages a lot, and is better at text than faces. There's the fan of comics or animation who's used to stylized faces and finds the differences in real faces subtle and difficult.

[(Anonymous)]

There was a great post on tumblr that talked about how a famous actor can get third in an impersonation contest of themselves or just won't be recognized out of context and other things. I believe there's a certain level of our brain tricking itself when when things are in a situation we don't expect, like those grammar posts where things are wrong but you don't notice.

[meredith44]

This post?

[wannabe_influential]

I love the part where it says Christoper Reeve would go to a set in his Superman costume and get hounded by fans, but when he went as Clark Kent, no one noticed

That is some meta shit right there

[amanuensis1]

Mom and Aunt are the SAME ACTOR?? Omigod I didn't realize that either!!

[wannabe_influential]

In addition to that 'actors who weren't recognized in costumes' post above, there was a tweet going around about how some guy didn't realize who Zoey Deschanel was without her bangs

[(Anonymous)]

I never recognize her without her bangs until my mom points her out.

And heaven help me if she's blonde at the time.

[(Anonymous)]

I kinda understand what you are saying. There are some people who can look drastically different at school/work compared to their casual look. Clothing, hair, make-up, or wearing glasses really do a lot to change a persons appearance.

I think you'd have to be somewhat familiar with a person to recognize them when they change their look. If it's just someone you casually see everyday but don't really talk to, it's more difficult to recognize them unless you get a good look at them.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who grew up seeing people do an actual double-take and hearing 'OMG you look SO DIFFERENT when you take your glasses off' I can see how glasses could work. Its not just glasses though -- I think its just one small part. Mostly I always figured it was a confidence thing; you don't associate the hero's unflinching resolve with your normal person co-worker even if they might look a little alike. Sort of like 'oh so-an-so looks just like that actor/singer/celebrity' you hear sometimes.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a cashier and I see hundreds of people every day. At most days I would not be able to pick one person out of a line up of people with similar hair color/general look even if they show up twice every week. At some point they all kind of blurr together. Sometimes I don't even recognize a client who was there like four hours earlier (unless I remember something specific like their clothes or jewellry).
I always thought I wasn't bad with faces but lately I've been doubting myself.

Now, I do think I would recognize someone I see every day traipsing around as a superhero as long as there was enough media coverage/pictures. At least I truly hope so. ^^;

[(Anonymous)]

Also in a customer-facing job, and I think there's a certain point at which the brain just gives up and processes everyone as "person here for short period of time". My first week at the job I remembered quite a lot of people and was astoundingly tired by the end of the day, now I only remember the regulars and the stand-outs and I'm not so tired.

[dragonimp]

I have a bad track record of even recognizing my coworkers when they come through in street clothes.

[dragonimp]

I roll my eyes whenever someone bitches about "the glasses" being a stupid disguise - because when it's done well, it's not just the glasses. It's body language, carriage, attitude, tone of voice - basically the whole package we present to the world, and that does fool people. Especially since Clark Kent, at least, isn't the kind of person/persona that people pay attention to or look too closely at. Most people aren't going to look at this guy long enough to even register that he kinda looks like Superman.

Marilyn Monroe famously wouldn't get recognized when she walked out as Norma Jean Baker.

[caerbannog]

I would fall for it.