Aight who has tips on how to mitigate this shit? I’m one of them ADHD cats who’s a little chaotic yet charismatic, so I’m always getting remembered and doing most of the name forgetting. Has made for probably hundreds of terrible moments where I’m absolutely dancing around the fact that I’ve forgotten an old acquaintance’s name.
If you’ve got a good technique, please share I need that yesterday
I don’t have a good technique, just q similar event. A friend of a friend remembered my somewhat complicated and hard to pronounce name, and pronounced it correctly. I forgot his name. So I thought up something clever. We traded numbers and I asked him to spell his name for me. Genius Chat, Genius!
He looks at me a little confused and spells his name for me:
A, C, E.
I find it’s best to just acknowledge it in a jokey way. “hey good to see you again but I have no long term memory, tell me your name again?”… “Jim”… “ok hi Jim, I look forward to having this conversation again next time. How’s life?”
Or if you can’t pull off the humour, just be honest: “Sorry; I remember you [from place, if you remember], but my blinky ADHD memory is terrible with names. Can you remind me your name? … Thanks, [NAME]. And apologies in advance if I forget it again. It’s not personal!”
Aight who has tips on how to mitigate this shit? I’m one of them ADHD cats who’s a little chaotic yet charismatic, so I’m always getting remembered and doing most of the name forgetting. Has made for probably hundreds of terrible moments where I’m absolutely dancing around the fact that I’ve forgotten an old acquaintance’s name.
If you’ve got a good technique, please share I need that yesterday
I don’t have a good technique, just q similar event. A friend of a friend remembered my somewhat complicated and hard to pronounce name, and pronounced it correctly. I forgot his name. So I thought up something clever. We traded numbers and I asked him to spell his name for me. Genius Chat, Genius!
He looks at me a little confused and spells his name for me: A, C, E.
Loool know that pain well! Potential salvation with “nah but your last name” or like “there’s not a silent ‘eux’ (or whatever’s clever) in there?”
I find it’s best to just acknowledge it in a jokey way. “hey good to see you again but I have no long term memory, tell me your name again?”… “Jim”… “ok hi Jim, I look forward to having this conversation again next time. How’s life?”
Or if you can’t pull off the humour, just be honest: “Sorry; I remember you [from place, if you remember], but my blinky ADHD memory is terrible with names. Can you remind me your name? … Thanks, [NAME]. And apologies in advance if I forget it again. It’s not personal!”
My solution:
1 - Hi what’s your name?
2 - Sorry one more time?
Okay [name], thanks! One moment need to step away. (To write it down in my phone)
3 - Oh hey again! I’m sorry I forgot your name again. It truly escaped me and I mean no offense.
Name tags lol