[ It's not as though he's ever particularly all that forthcoming when it's something he doesn't mind her knowing, either. He's capable of it, and occasionally will be super direct, or volunteer information he wasn't even intending to, but usually. He's actually a fairly private person, and he has instincts that were finely honed to allow for that.
But it has the corollary of meaning that it doesn't always follow that just because he's being difficult about something, he has some intense aversion to talking about it. Usually, yes, but he's not... sometimes he's just difficult to be difficult. Sometimes it's a knee-jerk reaction; and, sometimes, like now, it's because he actually doesn't want to talk about it. He's allowing himself to be persuaded because she seems to find it important, but this in itself is never a topic he would have even considered speaking with her about any more than was immediately necessary. It's obvious from the way he remains like he was for the other answer - he wants more contact and he's got the cause-effect relationship she's putting down, he gets it, but it's sharing and he's never learned how to do that with his toys.
(Disregarding where he winds up just giving a lot of them away and actually does share, just when he feels like it. Sort of.)
There's some gearing up - and some working on memory, because it was really a long time ago - that's probably more physically visible than he's intending because the blindfold apparently does that to him too. That's what he'll blame it on. ] It... Was between school and the nanny, I don't remember which - one. Early school. Special tutoring - whatever. They weren't the same thing, and then there was, I don't know, it was somewhere else. Hotel room somewhere, they got like, they got worried and tired of me talking and I stayed in the bathroom until they realized that was a strategic error if they wanted to not talk for hours. It didn't last very long.
pls like i believe that face
But it has the corollary of meaning that it doesn't always follow that just because he's being difficult about something, he has some intense aversion to talking about it. Usually, yes, but he's not... sometimes he's just difficult to be difficult. Sometimes it's a knee-jerk reaction; and, sometimes, like now, it's because he actually doesn't want to talk about it. He's allowing himself to be persuaded because she seems to find it important, but this in itself is never a topic he would have even considered speaking with her about any more than was immediately necessary. It's obvious from the way he remains like he was for the other answer - he wants more contact and he's got the cause-effect relationship she's putting down, he gets it, but it's sharing and he's never learned how to do that with his toys.
(Disregarding where he winds up just giving a lot of them away and actually does share, just when he feels like it. Sort of.)
There's some gearing up - and some working on memory, because it was really a long time ago - that's probably more physically visible than he's intending because the blindfold apparently does that to him too. That's what he'll blame it on. ] It... Was between school and the nanny, I don't remember which - one. Early school. Special tutoring - whatever. They weren't the same thing, and then there was, I don't know, it was somewhere else. Hotel room somewhere, they got like, they got worried and tired of me talking and I stayed in the bathroom until they realized that was a strategic error if they wanted to not talk for hours. It didn't last very long.