The very colors and sounds and textures of the world are so hard to ignore; we have significant trouble identifying our emotions and are overwhelmed before we realize it; we struggle to remember that our experiences and feelings and ideas are not “universal”; what people say and think and feel isn’t necessarily what they mean; the directions we hear are often incomplete or misinterpreted; alternate choices don’t occur to us; attention is unpredictable; ideas are fleeting; anxiety builds and reminds us of all there is to dread … and we blurt and post and hit “send” and regret it almost
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