In RBM, I never formally defined Scout’s neurodivergence, and most could have been chalked up to PTSD until ISO. This is the earlier reveal of who she is at a very basic level.
In 2010 terms, Scout never would have been properly diagnosed. She’s female, highly skilled at masking, and shows none of the earmarks that people considered neurodivergency/autism at that time. The military would have seen the way she processes information, her high cognitive empathy and extremely low emotional empathy – and labeled her a high-functioning sociopath with an imposed moral framework. They’d have absolutely have used that to their advantage. In today’s psychology, she’d be diagnosed as on the autistic spectrum, possibly with schizoid and alexithymic traits, in addition to PTSD.
And despite Jazz being fully diagnosed with Asperger’s (as it still was defined in 2010), it is highly unlikely that even Scout’s family would immediately link anything. It’s a spectrum, presenting differently in Scout versus Jazz, and Scout was an adult and already extremely skilled in masking by the time Jazz was diagnosed in 2001. Asperger’s was only recognized in 1994 – when Scout was 13 – and there was a 9:1 ratio male:female diagnosis back then. Girls were misdiagnosed as bipolar, having social phobia, BPD, or OCD; and many developed eating disorders as part of internalizing meltdowns instead of externalizing them. Sadly, not much has changed for Lost Girls.