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Originally Posted by TrailRunner14
I have experienced all of these. I'm not sure if it has to do with being triggered or not.
I am extremely directionally challenged, even sometimes when it's been to places that I have been before. If I'm going somewhere I've not been before, I'll put the address in the navigation system of my car and follow that. I still usually get into a panic and think it's wrong, and that results in me getting lost anyway! Yikes!! Actually I was going to drop something off in a friend's mailbox last week. I've been there several times, and dropped things off before. There are 2 entrances to her neighborhood... I couldn't remember which one it was. When I figured that out, I couldn't remember which house it was. Finally, I was her van in the driveway. That kind of shook me up. It WAS an "off" day that day. I do remember that.
Remembering people's clothes.. Unless it's something really out there... no. I have a hard time remembering what I wore yesterday.
Faces.. I have a really hard time with that too, if they are not in their normal "place" and out of the element I usually see them in. I'll see someone out in public and have an anxious argument with myself whether it's that person or not. I usually try to dodge the person because I can't decide if it's them or not. If they see me first and call my name, then I know it's them. It's not that way with everybody. I'm not sure what the factor is that determines it.
I've also gone into places that I've been several times and saw a door and questioned myself if it had always been there.
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i wonder if some of this is actually normal though maybe sometimes mixed with dissociation. surely most people cannot remember minute details? lol
i can relate to the face and clothes thing as well. but i'm not good with details like that clothes wise anyway. when i have panic or anxiety issues and lose someone i am with when out in public, people's faces blend together and i dissociate, so it causes more issues, and i have a hard time figuring out who is who out of all the people and who i am supposed to be looking for. it is really scary.
there was a time years ago someone recognized me, and i had no idea who they were. i think i might have met them once or twice but never figured out where. but that was times i had severe dissociation issues as well, so i can see why that would happen...and i don't remember people unless i talk to them a lot.
i have met several neighbors around my new place..i recognize their faces but no idea what their names are, yet they remember me.....maybe cuz i'm still 'new' and they have lived here for years though.
it's just like parts of my brain turn off or something, and connecting things just gets lost.