What are your thoughts on this speculation?

“The child quickly learns to cultivate the inner, private, life because it puts a barrier between him and the demands of the world. By the time we grow up we become masters at dissimulation, at cultivating a self that the world cannot probe, but we pay a price. We find ourselves hopelessly separated from everyone else … Only during one period do we break down the barriers of separateness: “preadolescent chumship” … One reason youth and elders don’t understand one another is that they live in “different worlds”: youth trafficking in their “insides” which elders have long since “submerged”. The parent himself “now” has difficulty making contact with his own inner feelings, hopes, and dreams. He wonders who is really inside his fleshy casing … “What do the blue eyes, the wrinkles mean?” The face is a lie for an animal who really feels himself to be somewhere in his own interior; … We find ourselves in the ironic situation of having to transact with others with the part of ourselves – our exteriors – that we value the least. And we are all placed in the position of having to judge others on this least important aspect”