For the longest time I think I avoided looking at other people (and myself), so I barely knew what other people looked like. An extreme example is I didn’t recognize a well-above average height friend I’d seen nearly daily at school for 6 years after he got a very slightly shorter haircut than usual for a while and briefly wondered why a stranger was sitting in my friend’s assigned seat. So I wonder if this contributes a lot to my inability to imagine myself.
Its normal for me at least.
For the longest time I think I avoided looking at other people (and myself), so I barely knew what other people looked like. An extreme example is I didn’t recognize a well-above average height friend I’d seen nearly daily at school for 6 years after he got a very slightly shorter haircut than usual for a while and briefly wondered why a stranger was sitting in my friend’s assigned seat. So I wonder if this contributes a lot to my inability to imagine myself.