gigi’s Reviews > No Longer Human > Status Update

He is so self-aware and yet so clueless of his own nature. What a sad miserable little person.

How surprising it is that he cannot see prostitutes as human beings, she says with sarcasm.

Here's the misogyny people warned me about

"I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind—of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another."

“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be all right. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”

Yup, autism confirmed

"Whenever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. I always accepted the attack in silence, though inwardly so terrified as almost to be out of my mind"

My autism radar is tingling.

"Before anyone realized it, I had become an accomplished clown, a child who never spoke a single truthful word"

"I don’t know ... If you’ve slept soundly at night the morning is exhilarating, I suppose."

Ain't that a relatable quote?

I can count in one hand the amount of times I woke up and wasn't immediately hit with the weight of tiredness on my shoulders and yet I'm supposed to be chirping like the birds and walking around as if I've somehow rested a day in my life...