I’m not faceblind, but I kind of do that with hair. Someone will be asking me if I know someone, start describing them, and I’ll be like, “Okay, but what does their hair look like?”
Inahc
anime hair colours help me *so* much with telling characters apart. I’m bad with both faces and names, so I tend to think of people in terms like Anna’s – but I try not to actually say any of it. 🙂
(and at the moment, reading Namesake is *really* damn confusing, because not only can I not tell the two main characters apart, I’ve forgotten how many versions of one of them exist now…)
Jim the Fish
When I first saw Frozen, I got really confused at the beginning because, since baby Kristoff and baby Elsa had pretty much the same hair, I thought they were the same character.
Shade
That’s actually part of the reason hair and eyes in anime gets pretty all over th place in therms of colour and style. There isn’t much facial variation in the earlier style.
Roborat
It is the Japanese variation of the Veronica/Betty effect. Draw the same body, change the hair, much faster to draw that way.
Masumi
Ohh, I know that one. Sometimes I accidentally seem really attentive, when I tell someone “Oh, you changed your glasses!” – when the truth is “Dammit I remembered you by those glasses, I almost didn’t recognize you!”.
UltraKyrie
Same, I’m absolutely awful at faces.
UltraKyrie
especially with movies lol
FacelessDeviant
I’m the other way around. I always forget peoples names but I am really good at remembering faces. I often go “Oh its that actor from [another movie]”, when watching movies.
smparadox
Same here. Since Kindergarten, forget names remember faces. Silver Lining, I have become skilled enough go through a whole day without the person I am hanging with finding out I can’t remember their name…
CoMa
I’m like that too. With new people, I need some time to get to know their name (it helps if I see it visually, e.g. reading it on a list at least twice, or write it out), but I’ll even recognise old school colleagues which I haven’t seen in ten years on the street just because of their face. And then I’m annoyed by myself, because I cannot for the sake of anything remember their name.
I’m also always bugged out if someone, e.g. my parents talk to me about somebody I once or twice met in my past (like very distant relatives), and I just can’t remember them, but if I saw them again, I’d knew why and how I know them (just not their names).
Roborat
Me three. I am good with faces but terrible with remembering names. I have a next door neighbour that I have known for nearly 10 years, and who I talk to regularly. I forgot his first name, even though I have been given it at least three or four times, and I sure as hell can’t ask for it now.
Vouksh
This is a source of mild amusement/frustration with me and my girlfriend. She’s always rattling off names of her friends/customers/family members, and I just cannot remember them. So I’ve got her to start referencing the time/place I met people, rather than their names, as that sort of thing gets embedded in my memory, whereas a name just sorta fizzels out in there, lol.
Riku
It kind of reminds me of when I’m at work and a customer who came in a week ago is like “remember me!?” (Which by the way don’t do that) and I’ll be completely clueless until they order and I’m like “oh they’re the person who gets marinara on their steak” or “oh this is the asshole who wouldn’t stop talking politics at me”
Shade
Unless you’re literally there at the same time every week or something its a big ask to expect staff to remember you just by seeing you, yeah.
Christine
I’m always surprised by how many people at the stores I go to always remember me. I don’t rely on it even then. (What’s even more surprising is they still recognise me without my kids, and will ask where said kids are.)
Shade
Only place I assume I’ll be remembered is the local Chinese place down the road and that’s because she even recognises me over the phone at this point.
Kryss LaBryn
Hah, I used to get that when we were doing computer repairs. I’d know who they were on the phone because of caller ID (no way I’d be able to tell from the voices); but they’d see me in the grocery store and come up and ask me how their repair was coming along, and I would have NO idea who they were.
So I’d say, “Remind me which computer was yours?” and they’d tell me what the issue was with it, and then I’d know who they were, ha ha.
Christine
Do you have any idea how long it took in grade 9 me to realise that I had two girls in both my drama class and phys ed class? They took their hijabs off for phys ed (our school was big enough that there were separate boys’ and girls’ classes), so I don’t see how I could have been expected to recognise them, once they looked like completely different people.
Eeeeh, no. Speaking as someone with autism who has *enormous* trouble with faces, we generally do fine remembering *people*. Leslie giving her name, and the context of how they know each other, would have been more than enough.
Anna’s just an asshole.
Marsh Maryrose
One conventional neurotypical response in situations similar to this is, “I don’t remember your name, but I never forget a face.” For me, it is definitely the opposite.
But more than anything, I can much more reliably identify people by the way their voices sound,
Joyous ☿
Could be both!
Christine
Back before I was diagnosed (i.e. before I knew that I had more of a reason than most to have a hard time with faces), I would say that my brain would store faces, names, and who someone was separately. I could, generally, connect any two of those. Sometimes I would be able to place the face & who the person was without remembering their name. (Especially if I, as Anna obviously did, failed to pay sufficient attention to the name at the time.)
As a moderately faceblind person myself, my first reaction is usually not, “Who are you? Do I know you?”, but an internal monologue of “oh shit! Who am I offending by not recognizing them?”, while my external babble is along the lines of “Oh! You!”, while I desperately try to figure out who they are.
That said, Anna’s first comment to Leslie was “I like what you’ve done with your hair, it distracts from your big nose,” so, maybe?
(I’m not very good at identifying facial features, but I have been known to fail to identify people I know when they radically change their hair.)
Chronos
I have serious trouble telling faces apart, too. I actually tell people apart more by their voice and how the way they walk sounds.
Dusk Rain
As another moderately faceblind person, so much this.
I’m pretty good with faces, but terrible with names. My nieces & nephews, half of whom are over 30, I still frequently call by the wrong names. It runs in the family though. My mother still sometimes calls me & my brother by the wrong names.
“Now I know I’m being used
That’s okay because I like the abuse
I know she’s playing with me
That’s okay ’cause I’ve got no self-esteem”
– The Offspring – Self Esteem
There have been multiple Wonder Womans. Lynda Carter, Gal Gadot, Susan Eisenberg. Lucy Lawless voiced her once, which is the most obvious casting ever.
You try fitting all of those in a single desk organizer.
It’s some kind of running gag that the character Bloodmoon never appears fully on-screen (in-panel?).
kalihahaha
Oh, hey. Bloodmoon.
King Daniel
Her name is Bloodrose. I believe she’s appeared in “full” a grand total of once either here or in the Walkyverse (to be precise, in a drawing Willis put on tumblr of the SEMME squad she was part of in the Walkyverse, not in any of the strips themselves).
kalihahaha
*Bloodrose!! (Dang, I Googled it and everything, still got it wrong)
Jhon
‘Bloodmoon’ is a worthy name as well.
Bloodrose has ‘appeared’ twice in DoA.
kalihahaha
Quite the little garden of Bloodroses in this comment thread!
It’s because there are so many different uses for paper and they each have different optimal requirements for best performance while the general use paper is ok for everything, but not particularly excellent for anything.
Because there are so many types of printers, there are so many types of paper compositions, there are so many types of intended uses, and there are so many types of price points. In an allegedly digital world, printing is the ultimate reminder that the world is immutably analog.
Because you need fancy paper for printing certificates, regular paper for printing everyday documents, and cheap paper for ruining your printer by filling it with paper dust.
That looks like the aisle where they stock all those small packs of specialty paper and pre-cut sticker forms.
Also because colored paper is fun. I’ve designed a system with handouts where different things I give the kids are on different colored paper depending on its purpose. (So things that would be stressful like assessments is on mellower lilac whereas information I want to be easy to find in their notes is on bright blue or rose).
287 thoughts on “Desk organizer”
Ana Chronistic
“I just remembered ’cause I was thinking of Mindy’s enormous-ass caterpillar eyebrows and my eyes drifted slightly downward”
DinaWho
The way Anna is talking here kinda actually makes me think of faceblindness and remembering people by a single distinctive feature.
I’m at least 90% sure that has nothing to do with what’s actually going on here, but still.
Yumi
I’m not faceblind, but I kind of do that with hair. Someone will be asking me if I know someone, start describing them, and I’ll be like, “Okay, but what does their hair look like?”
Inahc
anime hair colours help me *so* much with telling characters apart. I’m bad with both faces and names, so I tend to think of people in terms like Anna’s – but I try not to actually say any of it. 🙂
(and at the moment, reading Namesake is *really* damn confusing, because not only can I not tell the two main characters apart, I’ve forgotten how many versions of one of them exist now…)
Jim the Fish
When I first saw Frozen, I got really confused at the beginning because, since baby Kristoff and baby Elsa had pretty much the same hair, I thought they were the same character.
Shade
That’s actually part of the reason hair and eyes in anime gets pretty all over th place in therms of colour and style. There isn’t much facial variation in the earlier style.
Roborat
It is the Japanese variation of the Veronica/Betty effect. Draw the same body, change the hair, much faster to draw that way.
Masumi
Ohh, I know that one. Sometimes I accidentally seem really attentive, when I tell someone “Oh, you changed your glasses!” – when the truth is “Dammit I remembered you by those glasses, I almost didn’t recognize you!”.
UltraKyrie
Same, I’m absolutely awful at faces.
UltraKyrie
especially with movies lol
FacelessDeviant
I’m the other way around. I always forget peoples names but I am really good at remembering faces. I often go “Oh its that actor from [another movie]”, when watching movies.
smparadox
Same here. Since Kindergarten, forget names remember faces. Silver Lining, I have become skilled enough go through a whole day without the person I am hanging with finding out I can’t remember their name…
CoMa
I’m like that too. With new people, I need some time to get to know their name (it helps if I see it visually, e.g. reading it on a list at least twice, or write it out), but I’ll even recognise old school colleagues which I haven’t seen in ten years on the street just because of their face. And then I’m annoyed by myself, because I cannot for the sake of anything remember their name.
I’m also always bugged out if someone, e.g. my parents talk to me about somebody I once or twice met in my past (like very distant relatives), and I just can’t remember them, but if I saw them again, I’d knew why and how I know them (just not their names).
Roborat
Me three. I am good with faces but terrible with remembering names. I have a next door neighbour that I have known for nearly 10 years, and who I talk to regularly. I forgot his first name, even though I have been given it at least three or four times, and I sure as hell can’t ask for it now.
Vouksh
This is a source of mild amusement/frustration with me and my girlfriend. She’s always rattling off names of her friends/customers/family members, and I just cannot remember them. So I’ve got her to start referencing the time/place I met people, rather than their names, as that sort of thing gets embedded in my memory, whereas a name just sorta fizzels out in there, lol.
Riku
It kind of reminds me of when I’m at work and a customer who came in a week ago is like “remember me!?” (Which by the way don’t do that) and I’ll be completely clueless until they order and I’m like “oh they’re the person who gets marinara on their steak” or “oh this is the asshole who wouldn’t stop talking politics at me”
Shade
Unless you’re literally there at the same time every week or something its a big ask to expect staff to remember you just by seeing you, yeah.
Christine
I’m always surprised by how many people at the stores I go to always remember me. I don’t rely on it even then. (What’s even more surprising is they still recognise me without my kids, and will ask where said kids are.)
Shade
Only place I assume I’ll be remembered is the local Chinese place down the road and that’s because she even recognises me over the phone at this point.
Kryss LaBryn
Hah, I used to get that when we were doing computer repairs. I’d know who they were on the phone because of caller ID (no way I’d be able to tell from the voices); but they’d see me in the grocery store and come up and ask me how their repair was coming along, and I would have NO idea who they were.
So I’d say, “Remind me which computer was yours?” and they’d tell me what the issue was with it, and then I’d know who they were, ha ha.
Christine
Do you have any idea how long it took in grade 9 me to realise that I had two girls in both my drama class and phys ed class? They took their hijabs off for phys ed (our school was big enough that there were separate boys’ and girls’ classes), so I don’t see how I could have been expected to recognise them, once they looked like completely different people.
GoblinScribe
Eeeeh, no. Speaking as someone with autism who has *enormous* trouble with faces, we generally do fine remembering *people*. Leslie giving her name, and the context of how they know each other, would have been more than enough.
Anna’s just an asshole.
Marsh Maryrose
One conventional neurotypical response in situations similar to this is, “I don’t remember your name, but I never forget a face.” For me, it is definitely the opposite.
But more than anything, I can much more reliably identify people by the way their voices sound,
Joyous ☿
Could be both!
Christine
Back before I was diagnosed (i.e. before I knew that I had more of a reason than most to have a hard time with faces), I would say that my brain would store faces, names, and who someone was separately. I could, generally, connect any two of those. Sometimes I would be able to place the face & who the person was without remembering their name. (Especially if I, as Anna obviously did, failed to pay sufficient attention to the name at the time.)
Marsh Maryrose
As a moderately faceblind person myself, my first reaction is usually not, “Who are you? Do I know you?”, but an internal monologue of “oh shit! Who am I offending by not recognizing them?”, while my external babble is along the lines of “Oh! You!”, while I desperately try to figure out who they are.
That said, Anna’s first comment to Leslie was “I like what you’ve done with your hair, it distracts from your big nose,” so, maybe?
(I’m not very good at identifying facial features, but I have been known to fail to identify people I know when they radically change their hair.)
Chronos
I have serious trouble telling faces apart, too. I actually tell people apart more by their voice and how the way they walk sounds.
Dusk Rain
As another moderately faceblind person, so much this.
brionl
I’m pretty good with faces, but terrible with names. My nieces & nephews, half of whom are over 30, I still frequently call by the wrong names. It runs in the family though. My mother still sometimes calls me & my brother by the wrong names.
AnvilPro
Leslie no
King Daniel
This.
Inahc
yyyyup.
MM
Pretty much.
(Leslie: “Leslie yes!”)
MatthewTheLucky
LESLIE NO
coru
So very no 🙁 This is one of her longest running problems. She likes horrible, mean people.
Arawn
“Now I know I’m being used
That’s okay because I like the abuse
I know she’s playing with me
That’s okay ’cause I’ve got no self-esteem”
– The Offspring – Self Esteem
Iforgetwhatiputhere
You just won a slice of internet points
Eyebrow
You got to the Offspring first! Good on you. I keep having to quote that one.
Nonagon
Beat me to it.
Reltzik
Leslie, stop, sit down, and reexamine the trends in how your love life goes wrong.
Bagge
STILL COUNTS AS A WIN FOR BECKY, GODDAMIT!!!
ValdVin
What’s the Lesbian Love Sleuth scoreboard show? Does this make it Becky 2, Joyce 1?
Deathjavu
Leslie nooooooooo
stop chasing awful people, you deserve better
William Leonard Reese Jr.
. . . . . Wonder Womans? . . . I’m not sure whether that is an euphanism or not and I am now wondering just what it could mean.
Mr D
MOst likely Wonder Woman paraphernalia. You kknow, taking in account the movie came out recently?
Foxhack
Probably toys.
MatthewTheLucky
Action figures.
Opus the Poet
Not a euphemism, DC is still putting out WW as a comic.
Inahc
I’m guessing it means she has comics printed on paper?
Doctor_Who
There have been multiple Wonder Womans. Lynda Carter, Gal Gadot, Susan Eisenberg. Lucy Lawless voiced her once, which is the most obvious casting ever.
You try fitting all of those in a single desk organizer.
SgtWadeyWilson
We’re gonna need a bigger desk…
3-I
Binders full of Wonder Women.
Reltzik
I’m guessing doodles.
Sunny
Oodles of doodles.
Orion Fury
Damn it all.
Abel Undercity
Stickers!
Lieutenant Dan
My first thought was comic books.
Lieutenant Dan
Ok, my gravitar is… hair?
kalihahaha
It’s some kind of running gag that the character Bloodmoon never appears fully on-screen (in-panel?).
kalihahaha
Oh, hey. Bloodmoon.
King Daniel
Her name is Bloodrose. I believe she’s appeared in “full” a grand total of once either here or in the Walkyverse (to be precise, in a drawing Willis put on tumblr of the SEMME squad she was part of in the Walkyverse, not in any of the strips themselves).
kalihahaha
*Bloodrose!! (Dang, I Googled it and everything, still got it wrong)
Jhon
‘Bloodmoon’ is a worthy name as well.
Bloodrose has ‘appeared’ twice in DoA.
kalihahaha
Quite the little garden of Bloodroses in this comment thread!
Doctor_Who
…Why are there so many types of printer paper, anyway?
vlademir1
It’s because there are so many different uses for paper and they each have different optimal requirements for best performance while the general use paper is ok for everything, but not particularly excellent for anything.
Jingle Balls
Same reason there are many types of just about anything.
Marsh Maryrose
Because there are so many types of printers, there are so many types of paper compositions, there are so many types of intended uses, and there are so many types of price points. In an allegedly digital world, printing is the ultimate reminder that the world is immutably analog.
Needfuldoer
Because you need fancy paper for printing certificates, regular paper for printing everyday documents, and cheap paper for ruining your printer by filling it with paper dust.
That looks like the aisle where they stock all those small packs of specialty paper and pre-cut sticker forms.
Cerberus
Also because colored paper is fun. I’ve designed a system with handouts where different things I give the kids are on different colored paper depending on its purpose. (So things that would be stressful like assessments is on mellower lilac whereas information I want to be easy to find in their notes is on bright blue or rose).
GreatContagion
That is genius, and I’m using it when I finally am teaching. Thank you.
Dandi_Andi
I had really hoped we had seen the last of Anna.
Reltzik
Even if most days we see the FIRST of Ana?
Roborat