People who pretend they don't know you.

I knew a lady I did charity work for. She was my supervisor. She blanked me in the supermarket and again in the local beauty spot everyone goes to. I emailed her and asked her why, she said she wasn’t aware she had. Sorry, but that was a lie. I will do the same to her if I see her again, silly woman.

Agree with everything said by other Other Posters.

Plus some people really get off on snubbing people. It makes them feel superior.

Such is life

I seem to have the mild form of face blindness. I ran a business for many years and didn't recognise customers away from the business but remembered someones phone number rather than their face. It is more difficult with mobile numbers.

I often used to see my customers outside of my workplace who seriously did not recognise me without my bank uniform on.

This very subject was covered on Jeremy Vine Show Radio 2 a couple of weeks ago.

I've lived opposite my neighbour for 22 years. She recently got a job in the post office. I said "hello how are you"? She looked blank and said she didn't recognise me! Weird.

I usually struggle to recognise people out of context or if they usually wear a uniform but are wearing their own clothes. Its never about ignoring people

I definitly have face blindness and its very embarrassing.
I was on a bus a few years ago when a young woman got on and said "Hello". She then said "Hello Mum" !! Ive recently joined the U3A and worry every time I go out that I wont recognise someone from these groups. If someone says hello to me nowadays I just smile and say "goodmorning" and hope they dont get annoyed with me.

I have problems recognising people if they are in the "Wrong 2 place. There was an item on Jeremy Vine radio show about 2 weeks ago - a scientific name I can't remember but begins with P.
some years ago we were in another town and my husband spoke to a couple. I asked him who they were and I was shocked to hear it was people who lived 2 doors away.

I apparently often blank people but those who know me well just give me a nudge. I came across a very old colleague a while ago ( she recognised me) and we met for coffee. It was lovely to catch up and I did think it might be the start of a pleasant friendship. I was then told by someone else that a couple of weeks later I walked straight past her in the street and she was not happy about it. I haven't seen her since and don't have her contact details. she has mine but I only ad hers on a scrap of paper which I lost.

A lot of people probably think that I am guilty of looking at them as if I do not know them.

The truth is that a person has to be very close to me for me to see them clearly enough to know who they are, even when I am wearing my glasses - and I never go out without them. So when walking I have trained myself to nod or smile at anyone who seems to be greeting me, even if I have not the slightest idea who they are.

When riding my bike, I do not have time to look anywhere except ahead of me, and to the right and left at cross roads and side streets. This does not go down well with some friends who claim they have waved when passing in their cars.

Said friends drive so badly that I now decline lifts from them, so perhaps they do have time to wave at friends approaching them, but I certainly in the interest of my own and others' safety prefer to keep my eyes on the road.

Moth62

I know exactly what you mean. It’s happened to me, too. My only explanation is that we have a good memory for faces, but not everyone does. On a long cruise last year, we spoke to many people and I could always remember them and where they came from etc. I spoke to one lady who we had sat and chatted to for over an hour about ten days afterwards, but she could not recollect me at all. For some reason, people don’t remember me, but yet they will always remember my husband!

People never remember me either, but just the opposite with my husband, everyone knows him! I’ve given up trying to explain who I am - some people even think he’s with “someone new” when they stop and chat ( although we’ve been together over 35 years…)

Nandalot

*Oldnproud*, a lot of what you are saying rings so true with me. I am hopeless at faces and always said I had ‘face blindness’. I don’t have very good eyesight either so often rely on recognising people’s gait as they walk towards me. I am much better at recognising voices. My husband will recognise actors etc by their face but I can recognise them by their voice.

It's interesting, isn't it.

My husband has always been good at recognising faces and also remembering the names of actors, but recently I have recognised several from their voices before he has realized who they were - though I might only have known the name of characters they had played, . In fact I have had to Google a couple just to prove to him that I was right.

LovesBach I have chatted to someone at the gym now-and-then for maybe six years.

I didn't recognise her when I saw her chatting to my husband as she was out of context!

I'm rather unobservant.
A friend, who was once a store detective and had been trained to notice things, came with me to a third friend's house for coffee.
Afterwards this store detective friend asked me what I'd thought of the house.
Had I liked the wall colours, the furnishings etc?
I couldn't remember any of it.
She couldn't believe me.

I could easily not notice passing someone I know well in the street. My mind will be away with the fairies.

Oldnproud, a lot of what you are saying rings so true with me. I am hopeless at faces and always said I had ‘face blindness’. I don’t have very good eyesight either so often rely on recognising people’s gait as they walk towards me. I am much better at recognising voices. My husband will recognise actors etc by their face but I can recognise them by their voice.

I can't recognize people out of context. I'm hopeless putting names to faces even if I realize that I do know the person.
If I met my dentist in a supermarket, I wouldn't have a clue who he was. I only recognize him when he's hovering over my face with nasty looking instruments.

I think some people are just caught up in their own thoughts and whatever they are doing. I wouldn't take it personally.

I am another person who is terrible at recognising faces, and would recognise very few of my neighbours if I met them out and about. What really upsets ne us that my own mother doesn't understand it and thinks that it is a lack of interest on my part, but it isn't.

It is hugely embarrassing, and despite my many requests in the past to my husband NOT to bring people into our house (or anywhere else) and assume that i know who they are, he still does it sometimes. I am cringing now just thinking of some of the times this has happened.

Personally, I am more likely to recognise someone who other people might perhaps consider 'quirky' in some way that registers with me in a way that faces don't. When I say quirky, I just mean that there is something about them that stands out to me in a way that most people don't. It doesn't help me that so many women in particular have their hair cut, coloured and styled in a very similar way - men are slightly easier for me to recognise as they tend to be more natural, less 'cloned' than a lot of women.

I walk a lot, and there are people i can identify from afar by their posture and the way they walk, yet I would definitely not recognise them by face.
Similarly, I find voiceseasier to identify too, and am far more likely to recognise a voice on the phone, even if we have only spoken once before, than I am to recognise the same person if they were standing in front of me.
In fact, I once briefly encountered someone in Cheshire, on a canal boat, and six months later, this time in Worcester, I heard a voice in the distance and instantly knew it was the same person, but no way would I have recognised their face.

I blank people myself. The reason is, I don't do small talk, Esmay is absolutely correct. I find too many people just want to catch up on a bit of gossip.

Esmay: I was talking to an old friend yesterday and we both said that we are totally fed up with people , who actually have no interest in you , but can't resist a barrage of questions when they see you .
Just because they are curious !

As a mature student I worked in retail over the Christmas holidays. After hours on the till everything became automatic and I never really saw faces no matter how much I chatted and smiled. I once served DH and didn't know until he told me afterwards.

I’ve walked past my OH before today 😂😂😂. Seriously, I didn’t see him, I was so engrossed in my own thoughts at the time.

I think, too, that sometimes, a person might not see or recognise someone when the occasion is not the norm, eg when shopping rather than the usual working environment.

As other posters have pointed out, there is, too, a condition known as face blindness that some people suffer from, and other, similar conditions.

I discovered eventually that I've been guilty of this. But it was never deliberate. It's because I used to be too vain to wear my glasses. I've learnt better now.

In my case, it’s what they call nowadays “low self-esteem”, I suppose. My first thought would always be to think it was something that I had said or done. Not sure where it springs from, I just know that it does.

Why always assume that if someone blanks you or always blanks you that that is what they are doing. Why not just assume that they have not seen you, vaguely recognise you but cannot think who you are or are just face blind. Why is your first reaction to assume they are being unpleasant and unfriendly?