Anyone had to take a break from reading something because it reminded them too much of their childhood?
I remember being terrified every time I had to complete a task for my parents involving strangers (usually shopkeepers) because I would practice what I was going to say but there would always be something that went off-script. They wouldn’t have the thing but would send me to some other person who might, or the price would be wrong or there would be a buy one get one free deal and I would have to explain why I had bought two home.
Anyway on a recommendation I started reading a story about a girl who was an unsanctioned archmage and had to hide the fact, I was not expecting the protagonist to have mild ASD and unlock a bunch of childhood memories every other chapter.
Story is Archmage Coefficient if you are curious, although I’m only at ch. 7 so I can’t promise anything about later chapters.
I guess it’s a social thing, when you’d rather just do the thing and be done with it vs. extra interactions. Sort of what the character does, if there had been two trout then the encounter would have been done with and no potential drama of making the wrong choices.
And in the end if she just got the one fish, she may have been told when she got back, “that’s fine” and all the drama was inside her head all along.