When I was very young – around the time I developed Person in Charge – I built a framework for the world that told me I should not know how other people feel. It was sometimes useful to me to know, but revealing that I knew was a likely path to abuse. At the time I was convinced that it was a thing I should have grown out of by then – I felt I should have overcome empathy by age 5 – and that I hoped I would someday be able to do (or at least fake) the correct behavior so that I could live independently 1You know, the…