The Rehearser and the Explainer

There are two very loud voices in my head that have come to me after many years of social gaffes and the pressure to mask. The rehearser is a voice that insists that I must rehearse every possible conversation I will have with any other human ad nauseum, sometimes more than a hundred times if it’s a very important conversation, until I’m convinced that I’ve done it the “right way.” The explainer is the voice that tries to explain to…