 She has drastically changed her appearance and no longer has a guide dog or dark glasses, revealing her blindness was also an act.In "The Night Listener Revealed", an extra on the film's DVD release, Armistead Maupin discusses the inspiration for his novel.In 1992, the author was sent the manuscript of a memoir allegedly written by fourteen-year-old Anthony Godby Johnson, who had been sexually and physically abused by his parents since childhood.