Could she use the blue towel.

Chadworth learned to stop saying “you don’t have to ask me that,” because it landed as a correction, and to start saying “yes” every single time, warmly, four hundred times, until eventually one day in June she got herself a glass of water without looking up, and he had to leave the room.

They saw a child psychologist named Dr.

Amara Boateng, in an office forty minutes away with a fish tank in the waiting room, once a week for the first year and then less.