What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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Displaced Person
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SOLVED. YA Sci Fi. Boy finds his family & girlfriend start ignoring him then forget him completely. People & things fade to gray as people forget they are there & can't communicate with the coloured world. Read around 2000, published in 1970s? [s]
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From the perspective of a boy who finds his family and girlfriend start ignoring him then forget him completely. He is still there but grey in colour, faded, and can only interact with other faded forgotten things. He eats forgotten food from the back of a supermarket shelf and talks to a tramp (in the railyards?). Eventually he is returned to normal none the wiser