Email to the Genderqueer Group
Mar. 27th, 2017 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI emailed Genderqueer Chicago today.
Greetings!
I'd like to come to the upcoming Genderqueer Chicago meeting this Wedesday. It would be my first time there, and I always have some anxiety about trying to meet a group of people for the first time due to my difficulties in remember faces. I am a person with prosopagnosia, a condition that makes it very difficult for me to remember who people are by sight. Sometimes it's difficult for me to remember details I learn about people as well because without remembering a face to attach them to, those details can get lost in the brain-shuffle. In turn, that can lead to me appearing to be aloof or uncaring, when in reality it's just hard to know consistently who I'm talking to.
I guess I just wanted to get in touch ahead of time. Even if the entire group doesn't know about my difficulties in advance, I feel some level of reassurance that I won't seem unintentionally rude or something if I know that at least one person (is it the moderator or similar who gets these emails?) knows about my face-blindness.
Thank you!
Chris
For a number of reasons, I'm nervous about going; perhaps in equal parts with hopefulness.
Greetings!
I'd like to come to the upcoming Genderqueer Chicago meeting this Wedesday. It would be my first time there, and I always have some anxiety about trying to meet a group of people for the first time due to my difficulties in remember faces. I am a person with prosopagnosia, a condition that makes it very difficult for me to remember who people are by sight. Sometimes it's difficult for me to remember details I learn about people as well because without remembering a face to attach them to, those details can get lost in the brain-shuffle. In turn, that can lead to me appearing to be aloof or uncaring, when in reality it's just hard to know consistently who I'm talking to.
I guess I just wanted to get in touch ahead of time. Even if the entire group doesn't know about my difficulties in advance, I feel some level of reassurance that I won't seem unintentionally rude or something if I know that at least one person (is it the moderator or similar who gets these emails?) knows about my face-blindness.
Thank you!
Chris
For a number of reasons, I'm nervous about going; perhaps in equal parts with hopefulness.
