It's actually kind of nice not to be immediately told no, he's wrong, he is a person. It gets very tiring. The amount of congnitive dissonance he's dealing with makes talking about it stressful, sometimes. So a little bit of wariness regarding Neal leeches out of him.

"I hope I can be good," he admits, tucking his hands into his hoodie pockets. "In the end. Not sure if it's possible, I might be too broken. But I'm going to try."