Jennifer Horgan: We put up our defences and present ourselves as nothing less than perfect

Who hasn’t viewed Simon Harris’s catastrophically poor interaction with disability worker Charlotte Fallon by now? Picture: RTÉ News
Do you ever walk away from a seemingly nice encounter feeling smaller? You don’t know why or how it happened, but you feel it — a change in your body, your mood has shifted down a gear, your shoulders hang lower than before.
Well, I’m beginning to pay more attention to these conversations.