The Uninvited

afflement that dogged my childhood andteenage years. I grew adept at sketchingmental flow charts to track therepercussions of real events as well ashypothetical scenarios. Tracing narrativepatterns through the overlapping circles ofVenn diagrams – still my tool of choice –revealed to me the endlessinterconnectedness of human imaginationand memory. Armed with these templates,I worked on adapting my behaviour.Under Professor Whybray’s tutelage, Ilearned to mimic and then assimilate someof the behaviours I observed. I was not thefirst: others had exploited their apparentdisadvantage with great success, he toldme – most notably an internationallycelebrated Professor of BehaviouralPsychology. But apparently I still lack