Faces sometimes ring the wrong bells. So do names.
spent two days visiting friends at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita.
As Bill walked around the campus, weird stuff kept happening. People engaged him in confusing conversations and made inscrutable comments to him. Toward the end of the second day, someone asked, “Will you be at the party later?”Later, he did go to a party.party that everyone had been asking me about,” wrote Bill, who lives in Reston, Va. “And everyone flipped out, realizing that I was a different person than the other guy that they all knew, who was at the party, too.
A friend happened to snap a photo of Bill standing next to Not Bill. Wrote Bill: “That’s me, the slightly more handsome guy on the left.”Dale S. Brownof “Learning a Living: A Guide to Planning Your Career and Finding a Job for People with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Dyslexia.”
Dale worked at the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, and not long after her book was published in 2000, she went to the mailroom with one of her supervisors.Wrote Dale: “He introduced me to the mail clerk. The clerk’s eyes got big and he asked, ‘Are you Dale Brown, the famous author?’”The clerk continued enthusiastically: “Well that part where you put the knife in the person’s stomach was the best thing I ever read.
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