"Oh, that's good. We haven't had telepaths long enough for psychic psychiatry to have caught on yet."

"...What, do you just have non-telepaths doing therapy? That's weird."

"I mean, it's better than not having therapy at all, and we didn't publicly have telepaths until recently."

"I suppose. In my world you can't even get into the classes if you aren't a subtle artist."

"Yeah, public acceptance of mutants is nowhere near good enough to start doing things like that."

"There's acceptance problems? I get people thinking I'm incontinently reading their minds - which is a problem some subtle artists have, just not me - but it's not, I don't know, systematic."

"I mean, we're a new minority, of course there's acceptance problems. They're nowhere near as bad as they could be, though, being a mutant isn't as socially inconvenient as being, say, gay. Or black."

"How socially inconvenient is being gay or black, there? They're both fairly minor inconveniences depending on your family in the one case, region in the other."

"I don't have an exact idea, given that I live in the awesome progressive school where one of the teachers is all three and no one really comments--but I do know that I legally can't claim my sister and one of my dads because explaining why I have two dads was deemed too socially risky by people who're social progressives in just about every way."

"That sucks. Like, anywhere? It's not just around certain religious groups or elf-haters or something?"

"It's stronger around certain religious groups, but not exclusive to them."

"...You probably don't even have elves. Elves are usually gay. At least in practice."

"Huh. That must make reproduction interesting. And no, we don't have elves, as far as I know."

"Well, they're immortal, so they have no need to be particularly urgent about reproducing."

"Oh, that makes sense. Proper immortal or just unaging immortal?"

"Just unaging. And a lot of them develop ennui and commit suicide."

"What are they doing wrong with their lives that...oh, I suppose 'learn everything and then some' is less of an option in your universe."

"I mean, there is that, but I don't think I'd develop ennui and kill myself when I was a thousand years old. There's books to read and places to travel and there are still things to learn, just, you know, not scientifically, if I were immortal I'd at least dual major and be a wizard too."

"Well, no, neither would I, but then you and I are reasonably sensible people and let's face it, not everyone is."

"It's true."

"If I lived to be a thousand and for some reason couldn't spend that time sciencing I would...teach for a few centuries at least, write a novel, have at least a dozen children spaced out at no more than a few per century, start like ten different social justice groups, learn every language that exists..."

"I've been informed by a mermaid that octopi and dolphins are people, which, if I can confirm, would definitely be a project to handle in some sensible way."

"...We have octupi and dolphins in my world! I will definitely check to see if they're people."

"And possibly other sea creatures - I wrote it down but I don't have that notebook with me."

"Got it. Class trip to the aquarium in the near future. Good to know."