Number four reminds me of Asperger's syndrome, a little. If you have it, you don't pick up social 'rules' as easily as other people do, and you have to learn or be taught consciously what other people don't even think about. Even things like 'look people in the eye' or 'wear deodorant'. Of course, humans have the advantage, since they can get diagnosed and get help learning those things...I wonder what would happen if a human psychologist diagnosed a 'bot with something like this?
That's exactly what I had in mind when I wrote this. And while humans do get diagnosed and whatnot, most of them are at a very young age. I want to see how somebody would take it with someone like this who didn't get any help.
4. He was horrified when he discovered that all of the mech's Social Programming was self written. Programming that should have been there from the start, programming that told someone how things are and work in all social interactions. Even the most basic of codes were not present save for what the mech had written. Basic codes that included what it was a simple smile meant
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