me: ???

[marcicat]

Me, three weeks ago: I can *definitely* consume content in two fandoms, one of which has a character named 'Lin Jing' and one of which has a character named 'Jin Ling' and not become completely confused!

Me, two weeks ago: Haha no problem; they are not anything alike! Who's confused? Clearly not me!

Me, today: I DEFINITELY CANNOT DO THIS, BRAIN MELTDOWN INTENSIFYING.

(Logically, it's not confusing. In practice, it comes and goes.)

Comments

[bonibaru]

THANK YOU, IT'S NOT JUST ME

[marcicat]

YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!! :)

[teaotter]

... I read both of them as the same name three times in a row before I spotted the difference. I flip letters all the time, so this would be very confusing for me.

[marcicat]

ME TOO! It's not so bad until you start thinking about both universes at once, and then my brain is like 'wait... what?'

[rheasilvia]

It's been kind of the other way around for me! I expected this to be more of an issue for me than it turned out to be... phew, I got lucky! ;-)

[marcicat]

That's fantastic! Sometimes things I think will trip me up turn out to be fine, and things I think will be fine turn out to be the biggest challenges. (Clearly I don't know my own brain as well as I think I do!)