At least among my age-peer colleagues this seems a common background. Mimicry is natural to all children, but safety seems, increasingly, to be a modern privilege. To pay attention to a book, it must be safe not to pay attention to the world. This image remains with me as a brilliant depiction of attention deficit disorder. Scripts serve up words in dense blocks, word-briquets that are slow to ignite, with the character's name above them.
Verbs contain clues to what the character wants, consciously and subconsciously.
The commitment to act professionally requires a grown-up bravery that allows actors to explore the recesses of memory, peeling away layers of social conditioning and shame in order to embody even unattractive human experience.