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What’s Going On in Our Cats’ Heads?

Speedy has a complicated personality

Bryan Dijkhuizen
3 min readFeb 19, 2022
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We all love our cats. They are the little furballs that we drag everywhere to keep us entertained.

But what if they assume that we are their pets? What is the story of our cats that they can’t tell?

The Morning She Woke Up

Opening her eyes reveals a big world of danger. Speedy is afraid of everything she doesn't know. She’s aware of it.

Seeing Sanne is probably the only thing that comforts her. That’s why she likes to sleep with her when it gets dark — of course, she’s afraid of the dark.

Walking around the house to fetch some food is the first she does.

“Who’s that?” she wonders.

It’s just the male human waking up to get to work — he has loud shoes and that scares her.

“I wonder why he is not giving me attention, am I not special enough?” is what Speedy thinks and she gives him the ‘dramatic meow treatment’, which means that she’ll make cute and whiny sounds until she gets some attention and food.

“He’s coming for me”, Speedy notices and she runs away — typical Speedy.

He makes her some food and when he’s gone Speedy slowly moves towards her meal and…

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Bryan Dijkhuizen
Bryan Dijkhuizen

Written by Bryan Dijkhuizen

Writing about the life of a neurodivergent creative in a neurotypical world. — https://bryandijkh.substack.com/

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