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- Dec 1, 2019
Both lucas and his mother have admitted several times that he is schizophrenic. That said, he has also admitted to outright refusing being tested for autism, saying that it would make his life that much more difficult and cause him more problems. That means at some point it must have been suggested by a doctor, so there had to be some red flags for autism that were noticed medically, and that lucas believed it was likely he would test positive for it, otherwise he wouldn't have been so adamant about refusing or saying it would cause him problems. He is likely both schizophrenic and autistic
and I definitely agree on him not being entirely straight. Like i've pointed out several times he uses an awful lot of gay terminology and obsesses over being called gay, even as a kid, for someone who supposedly isn't gay
I have a hard time believing much his mother says considering she claims he ran a 106 degree fever for days on end which is...not possible. That's a fatal level of fever to go on for that long, especially for a toddler. Anything prolonged and 104 can cause severe brain damage, like 'child is now a vegetable' level brain damage. Anything above that usually kills them. There's no way in hell, even in the early 80s, he would have been 'sent home' from the ER with a 106 fever and would have mysteriously had it for days, so she's likely as prone to making shit up to make herself look like a heroic martyr as much as he is.
I do find it funny that Lucas claims he "couldn't be autistic because most autistics aren't social" like, buddy, pal, dude, you have clearly not been around many people who are autistic and verbal because they can be very, sometimes inappropriately social and often don't know when to STOP talking because they can't read social cues or body language all that well and completely miss signs that someone is bored/annoyed with them even if that person is straight up glaring, rolling their eyes, trying to walk away, or actively telling the other person to shut the fuck up. He infodumps in a classic autistic person way, it's probably a good chunk of why he can never seem to shut the fuck up about telomeres for more than five minutes.
Sort of like how Lucas could never figure out that Isaac always seemed to be just barely tolerating him.
Or thinking the women he corners (most notably the recent one at HoC) are totally interested in what he's talking about and it's only when "cockblockers" come in to get them away from him that he notices something off and even then he gets it wrong and thinks it's the person who interrupted and not that the person he was talking to wanted him to go away.
...or literally any of his interactions with other people that he's described in person, or how other people who have met him describe his behavior.