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Hey everybody, it's Marielle.
I think we all have memories that make us cringe, right?
Something we did that was just really embarrassing or uncomfortable.
They tend to play on repeat for me when I'm trying to sleep.
But enough about me.
Let's talk about this other guy's awkward memories.
I had got in my head before middle school
that the key to my social success was to be professional and mature.
This is Tai Toshiro, a psychologist and a social scientist.
He says as a kid he was inspired by the character Alex P. Keaton on the 80s sitcom Family Ties.
He was kind of this old soul who carried around a briefcase