The Difference Between Raffi And Luciano Pavarotti

In 1994, when I was 2 years old, I was watching the TV special "Encore: The Three Tenors" live from Dodger Stadium at my apartment in New Haven. My favorite singer at the time was Raffi, who I'd recently seen in concert and booed, as I referred to previously. While Raffi was a man with dark hair and a full beard, he really did not look much like Luciano Pavarotti. They were of different ethnicities (Raffi is Armenian while Pavarotti was Italian), and Raffi is thin and scrawny while Pavarotti was fat and sweaty. They even performed completely different genres of music: Raffi is a children's folk singer while Pavarotti was an opera tenor. Nonetheless, when the TV special came on, I looked at Luciano Pavarotti and immediately said, "That's Raffi!" The reason for this is that my autism makes me completely face-blind, which means that I have absolutely no idea what people look like. I figured that since both Raffi and Pavarotti had a beard, that they must be the same person. My parents simply explained to me that they were different people, but if they had focused their time when I was that age on curing my autism instead of just boasting about how "smart" I supposedly was, I would've been spared that horrific embarrassment. Once I accepted the truth, I learned that the other Three Tenors were named Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo, and I later learned that their conductor was named Zubin Mehta. Unfortunately, Luciano Pavarotti died in 2007 at the age of 71, thus putting an end to The Three Tenors.