[What is this reaction? He's had some strange reactions from other people when he told them how he grew up, but none of them have been quite like this. As for that barrage of questions, he'll go through them and try not to miss any.]

The lake was fed by a stream and I got my water from it or leaving a bowl in the rain. If I had to urinate or defecate I went in the forest. Not like here where people do it in the next room. [He's still not convinced that toilets don't just dump everything into a giant pit right below the building.] Electricity's the thing that lights up a room when you move that little stick on the wall, right? I've never had any of that. If I want light at night I start a fire.

What's wrong with growing up like that?