Seriously, when I am more logical or more intelligent than a character who is supposed to be a genius and/or a military strategist, I DISPAIR. And yell at the telly.
As for the "no one recognises me with my glasses/mask on" - I have worn glasses since I was 7. For a couple of months when I was 17 I wore contact lenses. No one - including all the friends who used to tell me that it would make me look so much better - noticed. After the first couple of days, I actually said to a friend (the one who had once greeted me after the school holidays when I went from an AA-cup to a B-cup without stopping at A, with "Oh My God! Dee! You've got TITS!!", so you know, she did notice some stuff) "So, uh... notice anything different about me?" And it *still* took her five minutes to get it.
Maybe though that's actually *it* - how we encode people by *context* rather than appearance?
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29/3/14 16:32 (UTC)As for the "no one recognises me with my glasses/mask on" - I have worn glasses since I was 7. For a couple of months when I was 17 I wore contact lenses. No one - including all the friends who used to tell me that it would make me look so much better - noticed. After the first couple of days, I actually said to a friend (the one who had once greeted me after the school holidays when I went from an AA-cup to a B-cup without stopping at A, with "Oh My God! Dee! You've got TITS!!", so you know, she did notice some stuff) "So, uh... notice anything different about me?" And it *still* took her five minutes to get it.
Maybe though that's actually *it* - how we encode people by *context* rather than appearance?