Similar experience for my first time having they/them pronouns used IRL… I was mountain biking in full body armor, full face helmet, and goggles. Someone said to their kid, “let them go ahead, they’ll be really fast,” or something. I proceeded to hit 48km/h on singletrack, a speed I haven’t replicated since. So I guess I was given a speed boost by the comment?

If your anything like me, that imaginary world is a horrifying character of the cyberpunk distopia we find ourselves in as a means of overt social commentary… So I’ll take some laptop memory if you will.