i strongly feel this as well. my guess is the causal direction is at least a little bit that aversion causes fake prereqs, or at least that it’s bidirectional causality. my theory is answering this email involves some kind of slightly unpleasant emotion (maybe social anxiety or something), and your brain, to avoid you from thinking about it, attached it to another thing that it knows you’re even more averse to, to ensure you won’t think about it.
i strongly feel this as well. my guess is the causal direction is at least a little bit that aversion causes fake prereqs, or at least that it’s bidirectional causality. my theory is answering this email involves some kind of slightly unpleasant emotion (maybe social anxiety or something), and your brain, to avoid you from thinking about it, attached it to another thing that it knows you’re even more averse to, to ensure you won’t think about it.