Quote Originally Posted by Lustre View Post
Lol at all these folks trying to push their ideological IdPol language, as someone with autism please dont refer to us as "neurodivergant". Its gross. I'm not neurodivergant I'm a dude with a minor disability and if a cure existed I'd take one in a heartbeat, because there is more to me than a vaguely defined illness.
And different people feel differently about that. I'm autistic/Aspergers and I wouldn't be me without it. Those traits are part of my personality and can't be sifted out without changing me at a fundamental level.

As for Zero, I see no need to leap to the conclusion that Zero is autistic because she is confused by a literal foreign concept (which we are doing a rubbish job of explaining to her). It's more that she's from a society where the concepts of social skills and small talk are nonexistent. The reason autistic people have trouble with social skills is that they're bad at picking up cues from others; Zero has never had the opportunity to pick those cues up. Different causes, similar result.

(I've said before and will say again, if you're looking for Aspies among the FFXIV cast, then Urianger seems the obvious one to me.)