>>53938654Anon I literally wrote my bachelor thesis on an autism related subject and I've been dating someone on the spectrum for almost a decade. I know very, very well what autism is. I can even make you a list of things she does that can be easily regarded as typically autistic traits:
>has a "special interest" in battling, is so obsessed with it that she can barely focus on anything else>does it over and over, trains all sorts of different pokemon from the start etc. That implies she likes the repetitive routines involved with training and battling Pokémon>has a strict schedule according to her room, also a hint that she likes regular routines as many people on the spectrum do>has trouble understanding social etiquettes on several occasions. First when she meets the MC and is immediately trying to be close to them because she might share an interest in battling with them>then follows MC around even though that's kind of weird (although she does seem vaguely aware of that)>the biggest autism flag is in Area Zero where she's completely unable to read the room. She barely realized what kind of situation they were in, only cared about the strong Pokémon in the crater. And she was completely unable to tell that the two Raidons were fighting despite how obvious it was. She's ridiculously awful at reading body language>and then there's the post-game event with the dude she challenged. She didn't understand that he declined her offer to battle because he didn't strictly say no, he was just like "haha yeah right" and then walked away, which she interpreted as a yes and was then surprised he didn't agree on a location to battle. He had to spell it out later that he did not want to battle her, only then she understood what he meant>said she had a lot of trouble making friends because of how different she is to others when it came to battling, so it drove a wall between her and everyone else. That's something a lot of high-functioning autists experience in school 