“One day in therapy, I don’t know if you remember this, but you said something I’ve thought about for years. You said, ‘It’s not that I’m afraid to meet people. It’s that I don’t know if I have enough room.’” I smiled slightly, the memory fuzzy. “You were so worried that if you met too many people you wouldn’t be able to give them all of yourself. You wanted to remember their names, their favorite colors, have enough time to play with them all on the playground... It made you so anxious that you choked up every time you met someone new. And then it happened at school and kids picked on you for
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