Do you ever look around at people in public and suddenly think, “Apes! We're all just apes wearing clothing!!” For me, it's similar to when a word loses its word-ness for a while and I can't see it as anything but a weird jumble of letters
A disturbing portion of my interactions with strangers involve running a mental process like "You're a person, say adult things, oh that was a joke that a person would say, HAHAHA, that housing market yes oh god I know" while the other 80% of my brain tries to locate food
