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Mom: No, you have always shared and you even give him some of your toys.
Shadow: Because he keeps begging and begging and begging&
Dad: Or when we go to Costco and get a big thing of ice cream.
Mom: Yes, of ice cream or something- You're always offering us.
Dad: You offer.
Shadow: Because you always ask me to. [Shadow9s dad laughed]
It seemed that at each turn, Shadow had a reason to believe that these actions
he9d taken were not of his own volition, that he was simply doing them because
someone would be upset if he didn9t. I set out to find an undeniable example.
Katie: So there are times when you do share even when you haven't been asked?
Dad: Yeah.
Katie: Could you tell me about one of those times? Of the many that you could
choose from?
Shadow: [Still unconvinced] A million years ago.
Mom: Oh, like I said, always when he gets something like food or something, he's
like,
