You used to talk with your oldest friend for hours. Now, ten minutes in, you notice yourself translating. Simplifying. Holding back the thing you actually want to say, because you already know how it will land.
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You have spent an evening with people you love. An old friend, your parents, a sibling, a partner's family. Everyone was kind. The food was good. You laughed at the right moments. And on the drive home you feel, in a way you would not say out loud, completely alone. Not because anyone hurt you. Because for three hours you said almost nothing that was true, and nobody noticed.
If you have a mind that keeps moving, one that learns a new field every year and is changed by it, you have made that drive many times. You have probably concluded, privately, that something is wrong with you. Too intense, too restless, unable to simply enjoy people. Or you have concluded, more privately still, that something is wrong with them.
That is the opening of 29 pages.