"Because, in general, people don't forgive anger," Malcolm says simply, matter-of-factly. "It's socially costly."

He rummages in a drawer for a non-stick gauze pad and some medical tape.

"Downregulating means controlling your emotions like normal people do." He looks up from Neal's hand to his face. "You haven't read the book I gave you. Various types of neurodivergence have some overlap in emotional dysregulation. I had to take myself back to my FBI days to put a lid on them for that meeting and they tested it."