Ik this might feel annoying but I'm going to talk about Rui being implied "autistic" real quick
Before I start: I am on the neurodivergent spectrum. However I'm not autistic. I have ADHD/ADD and most likely, OCD as well.
Rui is certainly a character I relate to. He's up there in terms of characters I like in pjsk. I've seen many people say he's autistic and he's just as implied as mizuki but holy fuck is that wrong. But I'm not here to rant about the differences in writing. I'm here to talk about purely the "autism" part. Rui shares many symptoms with autism yes. Many autistic people do relate to him. (Yippee) But I wholly dont agree with people who simply regard to him as autistic.
Autism shares symptoms with its family. Many people thought I was autistic because of it. As previously mentioned, I am not (at least not diagnosed but in the end ADD/ADHD still shares symptoms)
I think this is simply an issue with society as a whole. Autism is the most well known disorder to date. And I think it's great. Autism is also some of the more discriminated against disorders after all. However many, many people simply are unaware of other disorders. And so we other neurodivergent people are lumped into one group and every single implication becomes autistic.
I mean this as no offense to autistic people. If you think Rui is autistic, good for you, but at least recognise that autism isn't the only disorder that exists.
Edit: Yo so I'm wrong, and Rui is autistic coded. My point still stands tho, don't fucking generalise neurodivergency into autism thru overlapping symptoms and shit