I don't see any implications here. People on the spectrum (myself included) are stereotyped as being sociopathic, and the author's intention was for The Hacker to be seen as ambiguously autistic.
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It's just that the way it's written comes across a little as sociopathy being equivalent to autism, rather than an associated stereotype.
Yep, sociopathy does not belong there - it's not evidence of autism at all.
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What's actually happening story-wise? The Locksmith's story was pretty simple to follow, but I found the Pickpocket's story to be harder to understand. For starter, in the first mission he said 'only 3 people were listed as missing during the night of the prison break', despite there's 4 (and more) breaking out of prison. And the whole thing with Davide; it's understandable The Gentleman planned to make so Davide's corpse appear as his. But he basically pulverized Davide's body during Red Carpet. Then we had the part where the Inspector phoned HQ and found out the body wasn't Davide's. And finally, the tidbit that suggests that The Gentleman is Davide...
The Pickpocket's story felt so lacking in cohesiveness for me (maybe due to language barrier; English isn't my 1st language, my apologies), that I'd rather think that the whole Pickpocket story was just Blatant Lies, made confusing and unverifiable immediately, ala Keyser Soze. And true enough, the final mission 'Identity' granted us hybrid characters, thus suggesting that there's really only 4, not 8, thieves all along.
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It feels like the example under Ambiguous Disorder could do with some re-wording. The way it's written now carries the pretty unfortunate implication that being a general sociopath is a typical trait of an autistic person, which isn't true and seems more than a little insensitive. I'd change it myself, but I'm not quite familiar with the tvtropes policies and such yet, and wouldn't want to damage page formatting or anything in the process. Would it be possible for it to be changed up a bit?
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