General Discussion

This trait was waved away by media critics as if the show were some kind of Rorschach test. The defense mechanism that enables certain people not to process what is in smack dab front of them is terrifying. Makes me think of the Blakemore and Cooper experiment (1964), which although concerned with limiting early visual stimuli, I think has broader implications. The deficit in processing the obvious (to us) is likely the result of living an extremely curated early childhood.

https://www.tutor2u.net/psychology/reference/blakemore-and-cooper-1970

Whatever the cause, brain plasticity has its limit, and some early childhood "training" is not remediable.