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You think a member of the Imperial Family, no less the Crown Prince, would not receive treatment?
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Is it inconceivable that such treatment could have been given privately, without the public learning of?
Serious question. I don't know if Japan has a significant element of the paparazzi in its country.
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Again, you're looking at Mashiro as if she's a person who grew up in a normal environment.
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No, I'm not looking at her like that. But whatever environment Mashiro grew up in, she has
now had ample opportunity to learn how to converse more like a normal individual. And yet the same speech patterns continue, and the same misunderstandings continue. Mashiro still has troubles even expressing her basic feelings on things.
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Everything so far indicates she has NOT, thus the statement "that I think most people would have learned to avoid by now" is not applicable.
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I disagree. I think it is applicable. Mashiro has been at Sakurasou for a very significant stretch of time now.
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Blank facial expressions are not real consideration unless other symptoms are prevalent.
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Well, I do see other such symptoms. Such as...
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Preoccupation with certain topics is a common thing (especially for someone whose life was supposedly only about art).
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Yes, but when you start combining it with blank facial expressions and some other symptoms, it starts to form a certain picture.
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At this point you've basically decided on the diagnosis and retroactively looking for the symptoms.
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No, not at all. I simply find the very consistent and patterned symptoms to be difficult to properly account for otherwise.
Why should simply growing up in a sheltered environment lead to such blank and expressionless faces, for example? I don't get that, I truly don't.
If Mashiro is autistic, that would answer some questions that currently have no clear-cut answers otherwise.
Frankly, I don't get why you seem so biased against the idea of Mashiro being autistic. Do you think that would make her less of a character?
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We have a person who had an unusual childhood, and thus we cannot apply the same standards as we would for most other "normal" people.
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I think that you're overstating the importance of this.