What Can't Be Seen (Dr. Gretchen White, #2)

by Brianna Labuskes

“If you tell the world someone is crazy enough times, the world stops believing them when they say they aren’t,”

“Genetics loads the gun, environment pulls the trigger,”

“When assessing any given situation, we’re limited to our own experience, logic, or creativity—but there’s a world of causes and effects out there that you simply can’t imagine. Not understanding that is why some people fall into conspiracy theory rabbit holes.”

Pareidolia was the technical name for it, and it was the same thing that made kids find shapes in clouds or adults see faces in inanimate objects. Evolutionarily speaking, the impulse was extraordinarily important to humans, whose survival relied on social connections. But it did make people take leaps in connecting unrelated things and could lead to dangerous conspiratorial thinking.

“There’s no such thing as a true reality because we all see it through our own lens. No two people share the same version of reality. And yet we all seem to just accept that we’re all having the same experience.”

We need people in our lives who don’t expect us to be anything but what we are.

thought about truth and the ways that you could tell stories that were real but were also lies.