Happy Happy Happy Cat

No second layer · Easy to be around · Last to know

Day to day — There is no gap between your inside and your outside, and people feel it within a minute. Everyone else runs a small translation, turning what they feel into something presentable. You skip it, and the skipping is the whole effect.

Blind spot — The cost is specific: people start standing in front of you. Bad news gets softened, the real problem goes to somebody else first, and a thing everybody knows takes three extra weeks to reach you.

Up close — Nobody does it deliberately. It happens because interrupting your mood feels like breaking something. So you end up the last informed person in your own life.

At work — Nobody replaces you where a room needs lifting. People route around you where the job is bad news or a negotiation.

Clicks with — Screaming Cat and Shocked Cat: both put it straight out, whatever it is

Wears you out — Looking Away Cat and Deadpan Cat: you cannot read their silence and you will not ask