Like, when I say that at the turn of the ‘90s the State of Pennsylvania dispatched several professional beardos to pull me aside and test my outlier brainpower for a bit, that’s like where Stranger Things retro and the Steven King stuff it was drawing from got that, by my time they didn’t seriously think I could have ESP (my mom had a deck of Zener cards from back when she worked for US mind control expert Martin Orne, though!) but the government was absolutely still doing that