My thought here is this : When Wittgenstein presents himself to us as
denying or slighting our existence, our inner life, we may be prompted to
respond to this apparent denial with a parabolic gesture of insistence
upon our existence.  The parable is to teach not just the fact of my
existence, but the fact that to possess it I must declare it, as if taking it upon
myself.  Before this, there are no others for me.  (So do not believe the
monster when he tells you that he is monstrous because others treat him
as monstrous.  He is monstrous because he lets the task of becoming human
wait upon how others treat him.  Circumstances may have forced this
upon him ; he may have a chance to rebel ; part of what he will rebel
against will be his own monstrousness.  For a child, a correct waiting here
is necessary, it is legitimate.  It is part of the monster's monstrousness that
he was never a child; he therefore has not lost what human grownups have
lost.)

Stanley Cavell, _The Claim of Reason_ p.482