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I dunno, there have always been autistic people even if we didn’t have a word for it.
Idk much about Holmes, but if Doyle based some of his behavior on someone he knew or people in general who we would now describe as autistic, then I think it would be fair to say Holmes was as well…even if it wasn’t the author’s intent.
Doyle wrote a story where a man accidentally turned himself into a monkey it’s safe to say he wasn’t rigorous about medical accuracy also Holmes isn’t portrayed as struggling to understand social situations he’s just an abrasive asshole and conflating the two is unfair on autistic people