Performative Neuroticism vs Genuine Connection
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It's Christmas. I'm seven years old. The unceasing cacophony of laughter around the dinner table subsides for a brief moment. I speak up and say something. Nobody reacts. Someone coughs. Then the silence is broken when somebody else cracks a witticism, and the uproar of laughter echoes around the house again, as joke after joke lets loose.As I'm watching, observing, closely monitoring who says what, and what gets a reaction, subconsciously something dawns on me. When the next pause in the conver
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