Another myth shot down

After I resigned from teaching at Hoosic Valley, in an attempt to save my soul, I worked at a variety of jobs, not all better jobs than HVC, but invariably more interesting. For a period of time, I worked as a proctor for Civil Service Exams, usually administered at the college or Albany High or some such site. People with disabilities were allowed to take the tests, but the tests needed to be administered individually. Not too many were interested in that job, so I agreed to do it. One day I had to read the entire test to a blind woman, a rather boring assignment that took all of a Saturday, probably 6 hours or so. The woman told me that she had been deprived of her sight since childhood, but had compensated for her loss by developing her sense of hearing, saying she could identify, recognize, and remember the voice of anyone she'd met. After I'd finished reading her the exam, we bade each other goodbye and I went to hand in the exam, sign out, etc , taking about 15 minutes before I left the building. As I was going down the front stairs toward where I'd parked my car, I saw the woman at the bottom of the stairs, looking lost and alone. So I retraced my steps and asked her if she needed any help. She said yes, she would like to be shown the way to the bus stop. So I walked her to the bus stop, chatting with her on the way. We had bonded a little during that long, long exam session. Before she got on the bus, she thanked me and asked me who I was, and how I came to realize she needed help. She had no clue that we'd spent the last 6 hours together, with her listening to my voice for most of that time. I can't remember exactly what I told her, but I know it raised my level of skepticism about sensory compensation.