I'm terrible at name spelling when names have multiple spellings. Even if I've known someone for a decade, I have to go check how to spell it :-/
I also confuse people (is that weird to say?) - like the other day, I started talking to one of the facilitators of my old DBT group except I thought it was the facilitator of my most recent one not my older one from six years ago. SERIOUSLY. I sat in group for a year, interacted with this woman for a year and I confused the two of them and didn't realize until I was halfway through the conversation. I kept thinking, "She's acting weird for X" and then it wasn't until she referenced my older group that I was like "Oh. Oooooh. That's because I'm not talking to X. I'm talking to Y...."
It was freaky.
This is probably why I couldn't be a T. I'd confuse people even after working with them for a decade.
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“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of.” ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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