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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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Let's just say that daring to touch on the Imperial Family is like dangling oneself from the corner of a highrise. It's basically suicidal at least socially.
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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.
I disagree. I think it is applicable. Mashiro has been at Sakurasou for a very significant stretch of time now.
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I guess this is where our individual opinions come in. I don't see her time in Sakurasou has having been that ample amount of time.
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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.
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The answers have been given, but one might not see it and continue going about with the autism nonsense.
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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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Mainly because I can sympathize with Mashiro, given that I was also quite like her and know the kind of thought process.
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I think that you're overstating the importance of this.
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Not really. It's from personal experience: How one grew up is very important as to one's growth.