It doesn't bother me. If people think I'm a bad person.

[ He could objectively be one, but he didn't think so. He tried his hardest, and wasn't that about what any human could do? ]

When I was a kid, I didn't have friends. I just had my dad. Taiju defended me when some kids were going to beat me up, and then he decided he wanted to know what weird science stuff I was doing. We became friends like that. He followed me around, and watched me do science. Then Yuzuriha joined us. She also, basically just let me do what I want, and listened, to me talk about science stuff.

[ He wasn't saying it because it bothered him, it didn't. It hadn't at the time either. ]

I've made more friends in the last few years. After...all that time on my own. It's different, and good, but it's like being thrown in the deep end. Gen tries to do that for me, sometimes. Figure out what I'm missing, and I usually miss interpersonal shit. People just...figure out this is me. They try not to bring that stuff to me.

[ It's not because he's mean, or uncaring. If anything, Senku cares about everyone too deeply to ever be able to explain. He wasn't much more in touch with his own feelings, nevermind anyone else's. ]

I just don't have those kinds of answers. Gen does, though. He'd have known all this stuff.