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Horowitz Response To The Question Of What's Up

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It’s true that we tune things out. We have to, otherwise we would not be able to function in the ways that society demands we do. However, Horowitz fails to acknowledge that not everyone has this ability. Some people have sensory processing issues in which they don’t have the ability to filter anything out. They are mercilessly and constantly bombarded with sensory information, and can’t process any of it because there is too much to pick apart. These people wish they could “miss” something as the perceived majority of us constantly do. What Horowitz is describing is how a neurotypical brain functions. The author goes on to describe an “accurate” response to the question of “what’s up?”, their reply going into extreme and minute details of
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