Katinka Clementsmith

I certainly have felt shame, but maybe not long term. A faux pas might keep me up all night, especially if I may have accidentally hurt someone's feelings, but things I did years ago, no. I don't have feelings of regret either. I generally chalked that up to just being a decent person...now you have me second guessing myself.

I try to do the same. Oddly I also can't recall the names, even if I recognize the voice, or their walk, or know I know them.

I knew I had trouble recognizing faces long before I knew I had aphantasia. I always thought it was because maybe I was slow or maybe just wasn't paying attention. Just a few months after finding out I had aphantasia I saw my own son after not seeing him for 6 months. I stared at him for quite a while as his face seemed so foreign to me. He said "mom, you are staring at me being because you don't recognize me, aren't you?" I could have cried in shame. Then I could have cried with relief as I finally realized I may have an actual reason why I don't recognize people and it has nothing to do with being impolite.