/lit/ - Literature

I have this ambiguity in a story I am writing, where machine and human are conflated. I use machine lingo to describe human shit, like anxiety mostly. The people who have read my story have really liked it, have "got it", but there's this question which they all seem to initially consider and that I worry is distracting. A lot of the people basically ask "is this person a robot??!" and I don't know if this is a product of ambiguity that I like, or seems to cannibalize some of the very human stuff in my story.

I wonder if it's just my readers not considering what else these metaphors could be driving at, like the idea that it's not literal just seems less appealing to consider. I like the multiplicity that people seem to see in it, but I've just got this response a few times and it really turns me off.