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Reading this; the photographic memory, his social anxiety, his apparent obsession over a specific subject (in his case, it's books) and able to lecture for hours on that subject. It sounds to me like Jacob might have Asperger's Syndrome like me. But that would imply that he doesn't understand any kind of social cues, nor be able to read and understand facial expressions, and therefore would have extreme difficulty socializing.
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Good catch. He doesnβt have Aspergers, but he is on the Autistic Scale. I intentionally wanted to include an Autistic character in my comic since I very rarely see a positive depiction of Autistic or really any Neurodivergent individual. You are not wrong about the signs, Jacob hyperfixates on things he loves, books in particular and he can get overwhelmed by stressful situations very easily, hence why he swam off in panic after the fight with Kalo!
tl;dr: Jacob Finley is canonically Autistic and he sure as heck will not be the last! Thanks for reading!
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Autism wasn't officially named until 1910, but that's not to say that it didn't exist. There are records of cases going back to the 1700s that fit the autistic profile even though people at the time didn't understand what it was.Β en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism#Hβ¦
Jacob was lucky that his parents didn't put him in a mental asylum. Back then they employed a lot of ineffective and cruel means of "treating" the patients. It's a small wonder why abandoned insane asylums that were in operation from the 1800s to the mid 1900s are a common horror trope.
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Maybe this is why I identify with Jacob more than the others. Like I said, I am myself an Aspie (I was diagnosed when I was 6) and a lot of the thing I was describing (such as not understanding social cues and facial expressions) was in fact me describing myself. You've probably figured it out yourself just by observing the amount of details in my research. I've been finding it so much easier to socialize online with you because I don't have to worry about facial expressions and can read what I say before I say it. Plus the emojis are clearly labeled so I can easily understand which ones to use.
I've in fact noted that I am actually a 9 hour drive from you and have actually given some thought of traveling to actually meeting you, but the very thought of having a face to face conversation with you terrifies me. 
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Hey man, if you ever wanted to come visit, Iβd be thrilled to meet you!
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I'll give it some more thought and see when I can take a vacation.Β
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Jacob sounds like the kind of classmate I WISH I had when I was his age, and was sorely lacking, even among my intellectual peers in middle school: Β quiet, studious, nice, a generally good person to be around.
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