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Psychology says people who apologise for taking up space in a conversation, in a photo, in a family group chat, aren’t humble, they learned early that being noticed came with a cost they couldn’t always afford
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The apology reflex looks like humility from the outside.
For someone whose apology reflex is chronic, the two collapse into one.
The apology reflex is one of the pieces that holds the equilibrium in place.
The specific mechanism by which a particular childhood produces a particular apology reflex in a particular adult is harder to pin down.
The apology reflex will not disappear entirely, and it does not need to.