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>he didn't act any differently yet I found him a lot more pleasant.
and that is how our "expectations/presumption" mechanism works, people tend to assume all sorts of things about almost anything when the reality is totally different
it's the proverb: don't judge a book by the cover
>don't judge!
"opening up" sets us free of our own "imaginary protection" which in most cases is a protection from false threats

i appreciate your will to open up and "accept" he is a being of its own and that most of the times our perception of others is influenced by our own projections which are a sort of impediment for us in building meaningful relations