She repeats the word, like she's trying it out. Usually she'd assume it's some sort of insult - they do have a lot of words for people who feel the way she does where she comes from, after all, and none of them good - but the way he says it doesn't quite match that idea.
Which is odd. Alice isn't used to people like her being treated with anything other than ridicule or unkindness.
"Are these neurodivergent people locked away in asylums where you come from as well?"
cw: asylum talk
She repeats the word, like she's trying it out. Usually she'd assume it's some sort of insult - they do have a lot of words for people who feel the way she does where she comes from, after all, and none of them good - but the way he says it doesn't quite match that idea.
Which is odd. Alice isn't used to people like her being treated with anything other than ridicule or unkindness.
"Are these neurodivergent people locked away in asylums where you come from as well?"