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Originally Posted by Tempester
What is Mashiro's mental condition anyway? Most people say she's autistic. Is this true?
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My personal take is that she's a person who has just never been taught or trained to take care of herself, and has never seen the need to spend her time doing "unnecessary" things (why clean up if it's just going to get messy again? etc.). She may also have some degree of hyperfocus, which is actually rather common with highly-gifted individuals in many fields. So I think she's eccentric, but whether she actually has a diagnosable condition... who knows. The way she's played up in certain scenes in the anime may make some think so, but in other scenes they suggest that isn't really the case.
In the end, I really think the author of the story was probably going for "eccentric genius" more than any sort of mental/psychological condition, despite the way some elements are sometimes played up.