AIBU to imagine what other posters look like from their posts?

[NovemberMorn]

Do you conjure up an image of what certain posters look like? If you do what do you base that on?

IABU....because I am judgy like that.
IANBU...who cares?

VimesandhisCardboardBoots ·

I have never heard of that condition, I just read up about it.
Fascinating, I think you must be in the less than 1% of the population to have this so severely.

I remember when her baby (BabyBlondes) was born! Apparently she’s nine now

Blondes is a lovely poster. Old school.

lol the main component of my outfit is usually denim but not double denim

I'm exactly the same, it's called aphantasia and about 1-4% of the population have it.

Haha love this 😂

No one could possibly have a clue what I look like! 😜

Wow you've just described me exactly, down to the conversations with people you barely recognise whilst pretending you know where they are from. A couple of times it's even been my own sons for a miniscule amount of time when I've seen them out of context. 😳

I'll remember your username now🤣

@VimesandhisCardboardBoots thanks for the link. I only learned what this was called a few years ago. I always assumed that “picture this…” was metaphorical.

As for posters - I imagine voices.Irl situations where I’ve exchanged emails before meeting someone, I’ve never been accurate. I met my dh online and sometimes find myself reading texts from him in the voice I originally imagined, instead of his actual voice.

In my mind, the majority look like Sally Webster from Coronation Street.

😄

I look like Gina Lollobrigida washed up in a skip for a few decades and injected with air.

I don’t go to S&B, but have noticed similar on AIBU. Some really snottily expressed takes on what ‘good taste’ looks like’, that make me think they look like a former neighbour of mine.
She thought of herself as quite superior and would mock my appearance to my face while dressed in what appeared to be an expensive sack, and rocking one of those hair cuts that she presumably thought would make her look like Audrey Hepburn, but instead made her look like Action Man’s Nan. Overall, a frumpy, dumpy woman with a great deal to say about other people’s appearances.

My husband and I used to hold in the giggles when she cornered us for a conversation. That’s the look I associate with tinkly laughs, head tilts and other passive aggressive ways to pretend you’re not being a right cow while being dependent on other people being more polite than you are.

@ VimesandhisCardboardBoots

That was fascinating, I can't imagine not being able to envisage anything in my mind, but for you it's normal.

The plus for you is you have a good sense of direction, I literally have none. I can walk in a shop, walk out, and go the completely wrong way, and this happens even in my hometown...it's a real problem for me; I live in a state of lostness half the time.

For the last few days I have been on a different thread here, where a poster has put her own body pic up, wearing an item of clothing, asking for advice.
She looks great btw.
It made me wonder though, how many of us would look the way others imagine us to look....by the way posters have described themselves.

From what I have read, people either put themselves down, fat, short, unloved, etc...or they big themselves up. One poster recently said she was so lovely, people stopped talking mid-sentence to comment on her beauty.😜

People who blow their own trumpet can be rather biassed.

no, but I would love to know what the assorted `cock lodgers’ and awful men that are posted about in relationships look like.

I always get a mental picture of these! 😀

Probably a lot less desirable than the women they are messing about.