DH does a better job than I do of immersing into the world, I have trouble keeping all the facts of it straight... I want to care, I enjoy hearing all the storylines, but to actually participate more than a few minutes I find hard -- maybe I'm just not that imaginative.
Polly
Perhaps it's a situation like my own and my DD's, which I recently described to my wife thusly: "It's like I have the user's manual to her brain." DW is also gifted (which she denies), but her brain functions in a different way.
