My T is awesome when I've brought stuff. In my journal was a picture of me as a kid when the abuse started, and he was really studying it like he wanted to get to know who the kid was. When I brought in my violin (I wasn't going to play for him, I just didn't want to leave it sitting in a hot car) he was SO excited to see it and he treated it with the same awe that I do. I think it would hurt if he were aloof about that kind of stuff.