Not to throw a monkey wrench, but you should also consider that they often perceive motivations much more clearly than “average” folks do. What society perceives as normal is most often an illusion.
I wasn’t disagreeing on that aspect at all just not addressing that Emperor’s clothes aspect.
We (society agree, sotto voce, not to to examine closely our many inconsistencies and hypocrisies. Then someone comes along and cuts through our social construct with a why? Sometimes honesty is difficult to come by or live with. Hence the accommodations I mentioned. Many people can’t cope with too much “truth”.