The manga shows that he learns how to be more flexible in his habits at the end when he easily accepts to take a different seat. That's not OCD, that's a self-centred guy learning a lesson.
Well, no, not necessarily. I have a combination of a few different mental conditions that make it genuinely very hard to break away from what I usually do, but then when I’m feeling miserable, it stops feeling as important because the thing I’m miserable about is suddenly taking up all my thoughts. The guy just went through a really bad break up, like we saw, so everything he normally finds important could just sort of feel numb to him because of that.
Also, I feel like it’s gotta be remembered, some of us with autism just can’t pick up on social cues, or at least not very well. I know a lot of times where I’ve been so engrossed about something that I haven’t realised I should’ve already shut up ten minutes ago until it’s too late. It’s why we sometimes just need someone to actually sit us down and say whatever you’re trying to say directly, because we don’t
want to be rude, but we just aren’t seeing what everyone else would consider
really obvious hints.
Not that I blame the woman either, because I know we can be a pain to deal with due to the stuff I just talked about, and let’s be real, autism probably isn’t exactly something people know about in this medieval setting. Honestly, the fact that she made it a week in that scenario is probably more a sign of incredible patience more than anything.
I just don’t think it was really his fault either, is all. It really seems like this is something he needed someone to explain to him directly beforehand, but no one ever did, so he never realised it was strange.
