A pattern of active neglect would produce a different personality. But if his parents treated him as if he were simply a responsibility and no more, then he might turn-out as he has. On the other hand, there may just be a part of his brain with a congenital defect or somesuch.
But I don't understand why you're directing your (low) efforts to a series that is being handled more carefully by another group. We'll probably see the other translation in half-a-week or so. Wouldn't it be better to find a series that were worthy but completely neglected by other groups?
The character doesn't merely say that he hasn't experienced it (which wouldn't be that odd because he's quite young), but that he doesn't have a capacity for it. Such an incapacitation would be a handicap of one sort or of another.
@fuyunokikyou Well I wouldn't say it's normal, since it's definitely out of the norm. It doesn't mean you have a mental illness or anything, though.
Kind of like being gay.
There are people who claim that being unable to hear is not a handicap either. Incapacitations are not generally moral failings, and people should not be condemned for them as if they were, but incapacitations are handicaps. And an incapacitation that significantly interferes with reproduction through-out the whole course of an organism's life is extraordinary.
will have to respectfully disagree with your statements. i don't think you are well informed on aromantic people. you can look up on it and see how it is not a handicap.