See, Francis? They warned you it tends to bother people.

They shrug a little, though, looking (further) away from them. "I'm getting better." It sounds rote, one of those things one says over and over, to themselves, to other people. It's true, but it's still a thing they repeat a lot. "Just means I'm pretty used to being yanked around without much say-so, is all. So I don't always react right to other people being upset about it."