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On the fetish post, I discussed people who had some early sexual experience - like seeing a sexy cartoon character - and reacted in some profound way, like becoming a furry. Sometimes people have described this as a \\u201ccritical window\\u201d for sexuality (similar to the \\u201ccritical period\\u201d in language learning?) where young children \\u201cimprint\\u201d on sexual experiences - and then can\\u2019t un-imprint on them later, even when they see many examples of sex that don\\u2019t involve cartoon animals.

One of my distant cousins won\'t eat tomatoes. His parents say when he was very young, he bit into a cherry tomato and it exploded into goo in his mouth, and he was so upset he wouldn\'t eat tomatoes from then on. Now he\\u2019s in his 30s and still hates them. Is this fairly described as a \\u201ccritical window\\u201d for food preferences?

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/more-thoughts-on-critical-windows