Not my story but a friend's. They worked at a book store and a teenager walks up to him and asks him to help find a book that he needs for school.

Asks if they know the title. --Nope.
Ask if they know the author. --Nope.
Do you know I'd it is fiction or non fiction. --What's that mean? 🥴

Kid thinks really hard to remember something... anything....and says..I think it's a sports book.

Okay do you k iw what sport it's about? -- Baseball...I think.

.....is it Catcher in the Rye?... --Yeah that sounds familiar.

Come this way. It's neither a sports book nor about baseball.

The education system, his parents, SOMEONE has failed this poor young man.

I once knew someone who could predict how group arguments would unfold with uncomfortable accuracy. Not just who would get mad, but the exact phrasing people would use once they felt cornered. They explained it as pattern recognition from years of watching small social tells stack up. Nothing supernatural about it, but seeing it play out in real time felt eerie. It was like watching probability applied to people instead of numbers.