I'm starting to remember who I was before I started believing all the bad stuff.

As the first data sets come in from our longterm experiment in what societal hypershaming is doing to our brains--all good things I hope!--let me Patient Zero it up in telling you what it did to mine.

The quote or reference in the headline is from Pretty Woman, which was a popular movie starring Julia Roberts at one time.

For a long, long, superlong time I walked around in life with a giant predator-signaling fuck-with-me sign on my face—one that I didn’t know I was wearing—but apparently everyone else could figure it out pretty damned well.

The sign r…