[John B.]

If you watch, parents spend years trying to teach their very young children not to respond to every person in their vicinity (don’t follow the mail man, don’t spontaneously hug the waiter, don’t run up and talk to strangers). By about age 5, everyone outside the family or the age group is invisible to most children. (This is why they will try to walk through you). The ability to project another person’s humanity fully — i.e. to realize that those people ‘out there’ are having inner lives as complex as your own — doesn’t develop completely until late adolescence. Which, in some people, doesn’t occur before their unlamented burials … So sometimes it’s an assertion of ‘I’m too important to pay attention to you’ or ‘I will annoy you to show I can.’ But just as often, it’s because none of the rest of us is quite real to that person. We’re more like a badly behaved computer game. (This means, of course, that they are _extremely_ alone … which may or may not be punishment enough for the nuisance they make of themselves).

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Name : John B., Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 42, City : Rural area, State : CO, Country : United States, Occupation : College professor, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,