If there's an aspect of the whole thing that annoys me, it's that it's hard to get that innocence back, once you even start thinking about whether you're independent of someone.

Cross-referencing my comment on a different post for a related idea:

Your brain remembers which "simple" predictor best described your decision [. . .]

Your brain learns to predict other peoples' judgments by learning which systems of predictive categories other people count as "natural". If you have to predict other peoples' judgments a lot, your brain starts to count their predictive categories as "natural". The effect can be viral [. . .] and it can change how you think about yourself.