Birds don’t hike, and they rarely take the train. From what we observe, they do a whole lot of sitting on wires, and occasionally they fly around. I would say that’s a pretty good understanding of what birds are. That is a base-level schema that works the majority of the time. We can assume that they are cheap and that they don’t even buy a train ticket. You might even grab your chest and proclaim, “What freeloaders?”
The small minority of the time that a bird walks into a train, sits, and enjoys the ride does not fit with what a bird normally does. So at the cost of insulting someone, it would be hard to believe if a person really saw this. It’s quite improbable, although if a person took a selfie with the bird, I would have to believe them. This is the direction we are going with this little mental exercise.
We have all been told something, and with our noses, we smell malarkey. Excuse my language. Then we get this knee-jerk reaction that it’s not true. What happens after that assumption is that we don’t think through how this could be true. This is to save time; we know what happens the majority of the time. This just doesn’t fit in with our worldview. Often, if it is adequately outlandish, it isn’t perceptible, even if you see and hear it.
Let’s swim into the deep end
Doves and Hawks are both nefarious characters; I doubt that they stop at not paying a train fare. So let’s consider what sounds like a lie—something so preposterous that even with clear evidence, it would be hard to perceive. There must be a few that appear in the front of your mind that are so salacious that it couldn’t be accepted that this could work.
The goal is to anesthetize yourself from the act of doing the thing. First, think through it; mentally play through the scenario. After some time, that won’t be exciting enough; rather than staying at that level, you walk yourself further into the action. If you get a gut-wrenching feeling, take baby steps toward that until it becomes unbearable. Stop, rinse, and repeat; it will be overwhelming, then slowly it will get boring, so you take another step.
After time, it will become second nature; the effect that it has is that it isn’t jarring to you or the onlookers. The tertiary goal is to slowly build a sense, if the people that look at you are blind to what you are doing.
Once you are doing this social engineering enough, slowly you will become greedy and start to brazenly do this. Which is a good thing; after long enough, you will do it in the light of day with onlookers or family inspecting what is going on.
Men don’t become women, overnight
So I started to take sex-changing hormones as a kid from a sketchy website. under the roof of My mom, who was a radical, non-denominational Christian, (I don’t suggest anyone do this.) So my body changed, and I would stare at my family in curiosity. Why don’t they notice me when I’m around or spending time with them?
Then, before I knew it, a year passed, and I looked like a pretty woman, and I had clothes hidden in my car. When I got caught, I would stare into their eyes and explain it away. It was so hard for them to perceive my rational and cautious actions because it was not what they would ever do. The idea that a man would change until a woman randomly changed was inconceivable to them.
Who is susceptible?
Often, it is close-minded people who have a strong world view. When you have radical beliefs, it makes you incapable of nuance, i.e., blind and deaf to the world. Their first instinct without thinking is to, instead of figuring out who the recipient is instead they, ascribe their own character and beliefs on to you. If you have ever met or are a family member with: Narcissists, juvenile, or radicals, one thing you will notice is that what they will perceive and the conclusions that they will come up with are cartoonish and overly simplified.
Another set of people, for lack of better terms, are rural people. They have not been exposed to things that happen in cities. I have been on the receiving end of trying to communicate something that they were just not going to ever believe. trying to explain what I have personally witnessed, which was really improper and involved two homeless men being intimate in broad daylight. I was never going to reach this rural person who walks around while they think it’s the 1800s. Whatever I have seen that was in an inner city was going to stay with me; the recipient had a strong sense of what can happen and can’t possibly happen. He was brought up in a town of less than five thousand people. This young man was unshakeable and overly sure; anything I brought to his attention he couldn’t accept on face value.
Who isn’t susceptible?
Open-minded people: if I see a hippie or an emotionally intelligent person, I start sprinting at full speed away from them. Anyone who has the capacity to withhold judgment can probably spot an attractive trans woman who is disguised as a cowboy, construction worker, or mechanic.
