Interesting

no that was his second one

he has autism? I thought he was just one of them type of optimistic people that only really see good in things and reasons them… does anyone know what the secret condition is??

His fascination and determination with the animals is something a lot of people would probably think is weird and it's also really common for people with autism to be told that there's some indescribable that is "off" about them //for them to feel like they can't fit in anywhere

fair enough, but isn’t there also a possibility that it isn’t autism? unless the author said so themselves… not that I have an issue or am trying to avoid the possibility of him having autism but it’d be kinda weird to assume he’s autistic because he’s a little different/special from others.
Although I guess(?) it’d somewhat make sense if that was the reason he’d kept having appointments (if his parents wanted to see some progress in his behaviour or whatever) but what would that have to do with needing to be kept away from others? and there’s always a possibility of it being something else…. Also, unless I’m wrong, wasn’t the appointments more so something similar to therapy?

Well yeah ofc that's why I started the post with "I wonder if it was autism" LOL because I think it heavily points to it but it's def possible it isn't and tbh likely that it isn't going to be said outright because autism is still very taboo and misunderstood by a lot of people in the world. I do know parents that have sort of hidden their child away and tried to somehow cure their kids from autism which isn't possible so I also felt like that could be another reason it's a possibility.

Very VERY few characters in general have been confirmed to have autism even though there are dozens of characters that people with autism heavily relate to and are sure do have it

ahh okay okay fair point
and yeah I was going to make a point where I thought that perhaps the parents kept him away because they didn’t want others to know/find out he was autistic, but didn’t want that coming off weirdly and be misunderstood, but I do get where you’re coming from.
I am wondering whether little A developed the condition after the incident and whether he still has/feels it? (putting aside the possibility it could be autism) because it somewhat came across as he didn’t but his parents thought he did, since he was very passive about it, as though speaking about it from a second or third person perspective…??

I think he doesn't think there's anything wrong with himself? Or like doesn't even know what the condition is bc he looks confused as to why he's even getting therapy/seeing a doctor when he's totally fine (from his pov)

HYPOTHETICALLY, what if his parents knew that he was eventually going to turn into a mutation of an animal later in life, so kept him away from people in case he developed the characteristics suddenly or sent him to therapy continuously to make sure he wasn’t changing??
(the same as his uncle? at least from my understanding, his uncle was human and only recently(?) began mutating, so perhaps he’s the same. perhaps they were test subjects too without knowing(?), or are just have special genetics that transform them into the mutants?)

HMmm maybe but it seems like the mutants didn't start popping up until much later it was really random who got them throughout the country (??) I think perhaps the test subject thing is possible but it would have to be the only case scenario for that to work I thinj