[Kickass Conservative]

I have the same problem. I recognize faces, but names attached to them elude me. They always remember my name.

I’ve been through Chemotherapy four times in the last twelve years for my Leukemia and my recognition of names gets worse every time.

I think there may be something they refer to as Chemo Brain, or I’ve always been dumber than a sack of Hammers and never realized it.

[thirst4truth]

It is not smarts that helps you remember names. My husband is the smartest man I know, he scored 96% when he took his SAT, 3 years after dropping out of High School. That was 40 years ago, when SAT's were thorough and hard.

He is the very worst with names, yet he has a photographic memory and can recite hundreds of Bible verses when he needs them on command, but peoples names, he cannot remember them very well at all.