Maybe it depends on the other person's personality. It might be my superpower/traumaresponse to throw myself under the awkward bus in the service of connection :-D
My thing now is to go "I'm sorry, I have a bad habit of forgetting a name as soon as I hear it, would you mind telling me again?" and it often breaks the ice because they also forgot my name as soon as they heard it.
Maybe it depends on the other person's personality. It might be my superpower/traumaresponse to throw myself under the awkward bus in the service of connection :-D
My thing now is to go "I'm sorry, I have a bad habit of forgetting a name as soon as I hear it, would you mind telling me again?" and it often breaks the ice because they also forgot my name as soon as they heard it.
Is it weird when time has passed, though? Like 20 mins in?