Plan to not stand out:
Make a huge scene that everyone notices any time another being speaks to you.
What kind of stupid fucking idiocy could possibly justify this ridiculously moronic behavior?
"Buh! He doesn’t want to stand out! Buh!"
Yeah, and he's standing out; if you're not picking up what I'm putting down, I'm saying that he IS standing out, and thus there is no reason for him to do it, nor for the author to invent the behavior.
It's fuckin dumb.