I feel like I’m so preoccupied with trying to act like a normal person my brain can’t save new data.

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His name is Kermit.

I got u

I actively try to be better about this now, asking waiters or people you come across in every day life helps build the habit.

“Don’t forget, don’t forget, don’t forget, wait, what did they say?”

Lets just give everyone name tags.

The trick is to ask them their name. If they reply “Smith”, then you say “Yes I know it’s Smith, but it seems I can’t recall your first name”, so he says “John”. Or if he says his complete name straight away, you say “Yes I knew it was John, it was the Smith I couldn’t remember”

Bingo, you have their complete name. Works the other way round too.

I just call em some made up name. No one got offended yet. If they were to get offended they are probably a douche anyways.

I’ve been working at new job for a month, this week is the first week I remembered all 5 of my immediate co-worker’s names. It took me three weeks before I got a grasp on my boss’ name.