No I'm not often surprised, but it is interesting to run across someone who thinks so differently from me.

In fact I've had a great deal of experience with a person exhibiting what seems like a similar cluster of behaviours.

Call it a kind of 'professional curiosity', which is why I kept the thread going past the point where any agreement seemed possible.

A poster here one said that "everyone thinks their experiences are normative". I suspect both of us are perhaps doing that.

I wish you well, and I don't mean to sound disparaging.