For example, when I’m introduced to someone, I have a tendency to focus too much on their features (eyes, teeth, skin, nose, moles, hair, etc.), their voice, their clothing, their behavior, and then I instantly imagine them as children or at home eating, and then what their home looks like and how clean it is or isn’t, and then I imagine whether they have a spouse or a partner and what that person might look like and how they met and whether they’re affectionate with each other and happy together, whether they have children, and if they do, who puts the kids to bed, and then, and then, and
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