From the time you were two years old, your bedroom routine included the affirmation, I can do anything as if it was a bit of a mantra. You've said that she did this to make sure you understood that the world was yours and that you could eat the world if you wanted to. Did you believe her? I didn't have a choice. This is why we have to be careful with language. It has a way of sort of fossilizing and attaching itself to the identity.