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Comments on Sunday 29 September 2002:
Kevan's blog reference to Synaesthesia led to me wondering what other strange indexing methods are out there, particularly of language; I'm pretty sure my indexes approximate "first consonant-sound, and audio word length", such that John and Joan are not indexed alike (Joan has a long vowel sound, John has a short), but James and Jane are. One of the main side-effects of this indexing system is that sometimes my brain will suggest a not-quite-right word for a situation, which then blocks all attempts to retrieve the correct word. It also isn't very good around people who have similar names, especially when combined with my frankly atrocious memory for faces. How does your mind index things? [08:45]

Tom
Heh. I seem to have a similarly hair indexed memory stack when it comes to faces. This to such an extent that I don't seem to be able to recognise _anybody_ if their hair has changed significantly. I have lost a girlfriend over this, something like: "Hey sexy, what do you think of my hair cut?" "Huh? Do I know you? I'm waiting for my girlfriend. She's just getting a hair cut. She'll beat me up if she sees me talking to ... Oh. Hey honey." It sounds like a bad sitcom, but this only goes to show that bad sitcoms are founded on reality. My reality. (Be scared, very scared even. Evil possums will shortly invade the Friends set bearing with them the disembowled carcasses of Beverly Hills 90210. Then Robbie from the Raymond show will arrive in full police uniform and Just Shoot Dr Becker while drooling over naked pictures of the cast of Frasier. I hope.)
I had no idea who she was. This can be said to be a Bad Move. In that particular relationship probably symptomatic rather than causative, but also illustrative. I theorise that it's not so much the hair itself, but the way that hair serves to shape the face. Longer hair falling around the ears to the chest seems to make the face fuller and softer, shorter hair or hair pulled back from the face makes the face more sharply defined. You can lose gallons of fat simply by pulling your hair back from your face. This works for all sexes.

C. Copperpot
I couldn't tell you how I index. I just *know*.

I doubt that my punctuation is correct in any manner, but I felt like taking a tupping liberty with my grammar. Rawr.

Mhadf
Erm I'm ashamed to admit it. But mainly Clothes and dress sense.

Even though I lack the Second.
Matt

Tabbie
I think I mostly go by hair also. Seeing as most people I know have fairly recognizable hair, it makes things easy. Also tattooes(sp?), scars, and piercings. Anything that really stands out. But that just kinda pulls that person up in my mind as "oh, yeah, you're the guy with the pink mohawk, septum piercing, and the skull tat on your leg! What was your name again?"

Also, another person horrible with names. This is exaserbated by the fact that I have an inability to remember things sequencially. Well, not a complete inability. If I know consciously that A happened before B, then I always know it. But if I don't think about it at the time it's happening, it could have been yesterday or 3 years ago. I blame my father for dropping me as a baby because he was too stoned to stay awake. : )

As far as the whole color/letter thing goes. I never thought about it. I think some words have color and definately names, but not individual letters. Hmmmm... also not names that are so common that they may as well be letters. Bob, Joe, Mary all being very drab, colorless names. Whereas Terry has a nice light blue to it. Julianna is a fiery red, with a hint of silver.

I wonder if this comes from knowing people with these names, much in the same fashion as peoples' perceptions of names are frequently based upon Terry's and Julianna's that they have known. I actually once had someone tell me that I don't look like a Tabitha because I'm too tall. Hmph.... </meandering ramble>

Tabbie
(well I thought I was done) It also doesn't help too much to have a randomly associative brain. People wonder how I come up with some of my jumps in conversation. The best I can say is that "this reminded me of this, which made me think about this."

The worst case of this happening was someone saying something about chlamydia (the clap) and the next thing anyone heard from me was "Oh crap, my pills!"

At the time I was on a perscription that stopped repeating words running through my head. Not VOICES, just words. My brain would catch ahold of one it liked and just not let go. Well, I thought chlamydia was one of those words that would do that because of the way it sounds. Like how I got chiropodist stuck in my head for a week because I forgot to take my meds. Oh crap I forgot to take my meds today.

But, no, then all my friends thought I had the Clap. Tried to explain to them that a total virgin (as I was at the time) would have a hard time contracting such a loverly STD, but they would have none of it.

Then later they would just say chlamydia to remind me to take my meds. Really confused the crap out of a lot of people. : )

Nightshade
Fascinating info about Synaesthesia (I went & looked at the page). I don't have that problem with letters, but I do have a very similar problem with numbers (and exclusively numbers). 1 is red, 2 is blue, 3 is greenish yellow, and so on. This won't be a problem in day-to-day reading, but it happens when I try to do math, and sometimes with phone-numbers.
Very odd. But at least I know what it's called, now.
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