As someone who is autisitc, a "comminucation" disorder" might as well be autism, especially in this context since she has a hard rime reading the room and second guesses herself all the time. (Something I do daily.)
@rxfan I mean, she is technically an adult now, so it's up to them to really figure out a relationship if they really want to. I do understand that the age gap is suspect.
I think a few changes to the characters and use the baseball games as a way to show progress and it could definitely be serialized.
The character's cores would remain the same, but instead of the MC being lame for the sake of it (which works for a one shot) he would need a reason for it. Like...