I was having lunch with a female colleague when I saw my wife come in.

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T1o2n4y@reddit

Still afraid of her after 30 years ?

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sooolong05@reddit

Obligatory "1995 was 20 years ago lol"

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ianuilliam@reddit

Pretty sure it was only 10 years ago

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TnBluesman@reddit

Fail math much? 1995 was THIRTY years ago.

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TnBluesman@reddit

That matters not half as much as not being able to do simple math.

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Aidanthemagicaldemon@reddit

Tbh if I have to choose between understanding jokes and doing math id chose understanding jokes

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TnBluesman@reddit

Well I'm with you on THAT score!

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Fyrrys@reddit

We JUST celebrated y2k like a week ago

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TnBluesman@reddit

My how time flies when you're having fun.

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PlsGetMoreIQ@reddit

No, I remember it like it was yesterday.

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ConfusionMindless579@reddit

Umm no, I think it had been 30 🤣

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AreYouAnOakMan@reddit

[Boo this man!](https://youtu.be/76p_ncbffCE?feature=shared)

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OzymandiasKoK@reddit

Like that Paul Simon song goes, "still afraid after all these years..."

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LaStultulo@reddit

"Ma'am, your husband just slid under the table." "No, my husband just came in the door."

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AgileExPat@reddit

Why is he so sure that she'd recognize him with his 30-years older appearance?

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HomeBarista@reddit

Because the joke was told in 96.

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IntrepidProf@reddit

It’s only 1999 now, so not that long ago.

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Obsidian-Phoenix@reddit

Share your talking about. 1995 was only 10 years ago?

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DarkRitz@reddit

I sometimes recognize people I haven’t seen since middle school.

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Dawnqwerty@reddit

I didn't have glasses or long hair in middle school and yet me now as a trans woman I have been recognized by someone from elementary school

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We have an entire section of our brain, in addition to the visual cortex, dedicated to identifying faces. It’s why we are incredibly good at recognizing familiar people even from behind, at weird angles, or after long times. Even after the changes brought by transition, there will usually be enough of a similarity to trigger recognition. I mean, it even works across generations. I’ve been recognized by people I have never met just because they knew my father.

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Weird-Flounder-3416@reddit

...and here I am, unable to recognize most people I know, and having (some) difficulties to recognize myself in the mirror, even...

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LordCouchCat@reddit

Yes. While the human brain is normally good at this, a significant number of people have "face blindness". It's a problem because if you fail to recognize people you've met it tends to be interpreted as rudeness or uninterest rather than simple inability. At higher levels of the problem people may not recognize someone they know quite well without context and clues.

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Fyrrys@reddit

If i shaved my face and changed my clothes and hairstyle while out and didn't tell my wife any of it was happening, she wouldnt recognize me at first, but our kids would

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GaryG7@reddit

I apologize a lot. A buddy says it took me six months to recognize him. I’ve found that in relation to face blindness (the medical term is Prosopagnosia) I’m horrible at describing what somebody looks like. I can say hair color, height, if they wear glasses, and that’s about it.

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Weird-Flounder-3416@reddit

Yeah, it's a significant pain in the @ss 😣

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Dawnqwerty@reddit

I recognize most people based on their haircut and how they walk and at one point in college my best friend had gotten a haircut and didn't tell me and he came up to me and I hadn't seen him walk up and he started talking to me and I literally didn't know who he was. another time I had met a girl at a party, and I asked her out on a date the next day and when we met up for the date, some random woman started talking to me and it took me like a full five minutes to realize that she was my date cause she had her hair and make up done

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ebeth_the_mighty@reddit

Voices. I know their voices. I teach high school. In a uniformed school. Where 99% of my students are from one ethnic background, and have similar skin, eyes, and hair. The boys seem to have one of two hairstyles; the girls nearly all have the same one. I have 139 students this semester. I have prosopagnosia. I love my students…I just _really_ struggle to tell them apart.

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Weird-Flounder-3416@reddit

Thank you, both. It helps to hear the stories of other persons struggling with this 🤗

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we_toucans_share@reddit

When I was 11, my dad met someone on business for the first time, and she asked if he has a son who was at the library yesterday because he looks so much like the boy she passed. I have no idea how someone can pair that level of face pattern recognition, across generations, with the photographic memory of just walking past me in public, but the skill exists.

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zimreapers@reddit

1995 was only 10 years a..... Oh shit.

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Weird-Flounder-3416@reddit

I know 😭

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drak0ni@reddit

Because they lived together? Assumedly for years. Have you never seen a picture of your grandparents as young adults? Usually people look pretty similar in the face unless they gain or lose substantial weight

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