Talk:Rejected characters

Kamille Bidan
Kamille Bidan is not autistic. I'll start with the available evidence. In episode 9 of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Kamille uses the term "jiheishō" to describe himself, roughly saying "I'm just an autistic child". As far as I know, this is the only explicit indication of autism with reference to Kamille in the entire series.

However, given the context, I don't think this use of "autism" is meant literally. HanTheGene (talk) 16:24, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I asked on Reddit about whether or not the term jiheishō is, purely linguistically, unambiguous. Apparently the term is sometimes misused to mean depression/withdrawal/neuroticism/anti-social/shyness, and this misuse was common when Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam was made. I've also found a post on the website from the autism society of Japan indicating that this case is a misuse of the term, and that the director has a history of misusing autism to mean mean other things.
 * The dub uses the word neurotic. I know that dubs aren't always the most accurate, but they are also sources nonetheless. I don't see why they wouldn't translate jiheishō as autism unless jiheishō wasn't intended to mean autism in the first place.