vicious cycle

She doesn't foster relationships with other people, doesn't think that human interaction is crucial to development. Her teachers consistently question her behavior, debate about nature and nurture and a bunch of psychological bullshit that grates on her ears.

There's no explanation, she wants to tell them, and no amount of time spent in a cubicle in the hospital's psych ward is ever going to change that. But she doesn't, because in a way, she thirsts for attention, hungers for endless questions about her mental state, her hidden emotions, her life. She grows dependent, then insane.

Whatever. Normal is overrated, anyway.