When the Way You Love Things Is “Too Much”; or: Why I Went to Portmeirion: "I decided to try a little experiment: What would happen if I stopped strictly monitoring how much I allowed myself to talk about my special interests? ... What if I just let people ignore me—or even dislike me!—if they were annoyed by or uninterested in what I had to say?"

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