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* AmbiguousDisorder: played with. Don is fairly obviously on the autistic spectrum, and he knows what autism is - the first novel opens with him giving a lecture on Asperger's Syndrome to a group of autistic children and their parents. But he resists being diagnosed as autistic himself [[spoiler: until the end of the third book]] because, as he says, he has been offered many psychological diagnoses over a lifetime and doesn't want another one, especially as people's [[HollywoodAutism assumptions about autism]] are usually unhelpful.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: DiagnosedByTheAudience: played with. Don is fairly obviously on the autistic spectrum, and he knows what autism is - the first novel opens with him giving a lecture on Asperger's Syndrome to a group of autistic children and their parents. But he resists being diagnosed as autistic himself [[spoiler: until the end of the third book]] because, as he says, he has been offered many psychological diagnoses over a lifetime and doesn't want another one, especially as people's [[HollywoodAutism assumptions about autism]] are usually unhelpful.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: played with. Don is fairly obviously on the autistic spectrum, and he knows what autism is - the first novel opens with him giving a lecture on Asperger's Syndrome to a group of autistic children and their parents. But he resists being diagnosed as autistic himself [[spoiler: until the end of the third book]] because, as he says, he has been offered many psychological diagnoses over a lifetime and doesn't want another one, especially as people's [[HollywoodAutism assumptions about autism]] are usually unhelpful.

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