High fit

Emotional Availability measures whether a person can be found and reached when someone who depends on them needs them. For most of Dia's life, her Ama was physically present but emotionally unreachable on the central question of Dia's identity — her silence functioned as an absence. In the doctor's office, her Ama's single sentence ('She's always been my daughter') moved that dial from unavailable to fully present, and Dia's subsequent behavior — asking her mother directly what had changed, then receiving an explanation — confirmed that the channel was now open.