Convenience Store Woman

i sadly find myself relating a lot to keiko in that it feels simpler to shape your identity around your job & have that inform your personhood outside of work rather than figure out who you actually are in the absence of everything else, also with how she thinks of speech patterns & character traits with taking on parts of those you surround yourself with. i notice i unconsciously do that a lot as an autistic person, just mirroring what i'm seeing for the comfort of the other person

anyway i don't think it was intended to be taken this way by the author but think this speaks to a lot of autistic peoples experience living under capitalism. i can see where a lot of readers found it to be funny at points, & while i think the character of keiko is charming, i mostly just found it sad