If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.
If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.
In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.
Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that-at the moment-I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.
My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn't accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people's thoughts. Of course, she couldn't admit I was literally hearing people's thoughts because that just didn't fit into her world.
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