I find it difficult to care about other people

Daniel says he struggles to care about strangers’ lives or tragedies, making small talk feel forced, boring, and emotionally dishonest. At the petrol-station job, he resisted coworkers’ conversation, assumed people were boring, and resented his boss criticizing his personality. He separates appreciation from affection for viewers, condemns YouTube intimacy as manipulative, then begins cooking a bacon-leek omelette.

His emotional distance reinforces social withdrawal; intimacy is reserved for family, wife, and close contacts.