May 2, 2022
Yes, he was much like Hans Christian Anderson in some ways. I’m not entirely sure Dodgson was more comfortable with children. I think he was simply uninterested in anything sexual and people can’t wrap their heads around that. There are hundreds of thousands of letters from his communications with friends. Adult friends, I might add. He saved all of them, which leads me to think his friendships and correspondences had great meaning to him. He just had no interest in sex or pairing up. That alone would make him strange and suspect to many people.