If you have an emotion or need, and your caregiver ignores it or dismisses it as unimportant, turning their attention away from your need, then it makes perfect sense that you would begin to live more from a left-hemisphere-dominant approach to the world, dismissing your own emotions (and everyone else’s) as less than important. When you haven’t been seen, the circuitry that allows you to tune into other minds and acquire that type of insight doesn’t appear to develop as fully, and you can eventually stop seeing yourself.
