Therapist Aileen Goldman

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This American Life · 605: Kid Logic · 15 Feb 2026 podcast

And she was about four years old.

And her very first flight, and as the plane was airborne, she turned to the woman next to her and said, when do we get smaller?

That had been her experience at airports watching airplanes take off.

They do get smaller.

The duplexes directly to the left and the right of us were aunts and uncles.

Across the street from us, all aunts and uncles.

So there was no such thing as walking out and seeing a stranger.

I just thought we all looked alike.

We all had common ancestries.

Well, when I became mobile, when I got my first tricycle,

I could go a little bit further.

So I ventured down the street and I looked and I saw these couples sitting there, these two people.

But they were people that I had never seen before.

I had never seen anything like that because they were white people.

And because I had never seen white people, I assumed that they were ghosts.

So I waved like, you know, I wonder if I wave, you know, what kind of people are they?

What do they do?

Do they talk?

So I waved and I remember hearing the man going.

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