Dr. Todd Rose

And I think people will have some similar experience because I can remember the first time that I actually experienced a collective illusion.

So...

Growing up, I was kind of a problematic child, which I'm sure we can talk about, and didn't really fit in except for my grandmother, who was like my second mom.

Whenever I was with her, I could just be myself, and I was good enough.

And she decided, I mean, they were very, very poor.

She had me come and sleep over as a kid once a month, just me.

Literally no other grandkids got this.

And when I was there, she'd make a bologna sandwich in her little tiny kitchenette.

would play Yahtzee together and we'd just talk and I could share anything with her.

Stuff I couldn't tell my parents, whatever.

It was like literally amazing.

It was this oasis for me in a really tough environment.

We've been sleeping over, sleeping over, sleeping over.

Then one time she says, hey, good news.

I'm taking you to Sizzler, your grandpa and I, this steakhouse, this all-you-can-eat steakhouse.

And I was like...

I don't, I was like, I don't really want to go to, it's noisy there.

Like, I just want to be here.

But I knew it meant a lot to them.

So I went with it.