[There's an even longer pause as he processes this new information. Not a good sign for an extremely bluntly honest person.]

I see. They will become more obvious after a while then? [If he's lucky enough not to end up groomed into missing it wholesale...] I can't imagine what it would be like to be that way, myself. How does one even find someone worth bonding to, if they think like that?

[He's mostly asking rhetorically, though it sure does put his priorities into crystal clear perspective.]