Talk:Mable/@comment-28143278-20161002055444

I think Salad Fingers reacted negatively when she spoke because he is used to being able to live in his various fantasies, and interpret the inarticulate vocalizations of the other wasteland denizens however he pleases. When she speaks, he no longer has control over the existence and scenario around him, and is forced to be conscious of an existence he finds too horrific to contemplate... in part, likely, because of things he has done in the past, and must acknowledge to himself actually occurred. He seems to mostly recover from this traumatic experience, but in later episodes, he has "moments," with increasing frequency, in which the dark, repressed parts of his psyche, as well as actual, present occurrences, disrupt his make-believe scenarios and cause him episodes of extreme distress.