Saw some other comments mentioning how Asuhi’s need for repetition is likely due to trauma-based OCD and not ASD (autism) but my argument for him having ASD is that he also seems to struggle with social cues/rules (ex. How he told his uncle he and Ichigo were kissing with a complete straight face) and his default is to be straightforward even if it comes across as rude (ex. When he got invited to that party thing by Ichigo’s female friend and he immediately said no when given the option to). People with ASD rely on repetition to soothe, which could also be interpreted to mean that his repetitiveness could have been emphasized due to his trauma, but I don’t think it’s enough to say that it’s caused by OCD since we aren’t really shown that Asuhi has obsessive compulsive thoughts - which is why I don’t think he has both ASD and OCD simultaneously. To conclude I wanna say that’s enough symptoms to gather for readers to assume he’s on the spectrum but either way the author probably didn’t intend to make him so and that’s unfortunate since it means all of it could be plausibly denied just like for Semantic Error :/ so at most he’s autistic-coded
Saw some other comments mentioning how Asuhi’s need for repetition is likely due to trauma-based OCD and not ASD (autism) but my argument for him having ASD is that he also seems to struggle with social cues/rules (ex. How he told his uncle he and Ichigo were kissing with a complete straight face) and his default is to be straightforward even if it comes across as rude (ex. When he got invited to that party thing by Ichigo’s female friend and he immediately said no when given the option to). People with ASD rely on repetition to soothe, which could also be interpreted to mean that his repetitiveness could have been emphasized due to his trauma, but I don’t think it’s enough to say that it’s caused by OCD since we aren’t really shown that Asuhi has obsessive compulsive thoughts - which is why I don’t think he has both ASD and OCD simultaneously. To conclude I wanna say that’s enough symptoms to gather for readers to assume he’s on the spectrum but either way the author probably didn’t intend to make him so and that’s unfortunate since it means all of it could be plausibly denied just like for Semantic Error :/ so at most he’s autistic-coded