I<br > COMING BACK<br > Probably the best thing that ever happened to me wa<br >going nuts. It brought people out to the ballpark to get<br >look at me， and they came to the places where I wa<br >invited to speak. "Let s see what the monkey looks like，<br >lhev d say， and thev d come by the thousands. And in a]<br >the businesses I got involved with it helped because th<br >people I was promoting things to or selling products t，<br >knew about me because of all the publicity about m<br >mental problems. That was back in the early 1950s. It <br >pretty much the same today， in the 1980s; they still want t<br >see what the monkey is like.<br > To this day， the first thing people ask my wife Jan， o<br >olhcr people who know me， is， "Is he really goofy?" o<br >"What s he really like?"--meaning "Is he really crazy?<br >They ve been doing that for more than 30 years now.<br >doesn t bother me. The way I look at it， it s been a blessin<br >for me. I am a nonconformist， an individualist. I tell it Ilk<br >I see it， even though it s gotten me into a helluva lot c<br >