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I read the Korean smut webtoon Don't xxxx Where You Work and the Japanese romance manga 365 Days To The Wedding. I don't know if the respective writers wrote characters with the intent to give them autism (I suspect dxwyw just wanted to write about a buff nerd), but these were both romance comics where at least one partner was on the spectrum. I liked them both a lot.

In Don't xxxx Where You Work, Dr. Junghyun Han gets compared to a robot at least once since he has trouble showing his emotions publicly and tends to talk with a flat, literal intonation. If anyone will let him, he'll talk about physics for hours. This comic's pov is from the female lead, Dabi Song, and much more follows her arc of learning that this man has hidden depths she never really dreamed of and learning to love the ways he's unique. But since it is smut, all I could really think of during a lot of it is the Autism Iceberg.

365 Days To The Wedding is about two loners who are probably at least a little on the spectrum who decide to fake a marriage to avoid getting transferred to Sibera because they think nobody will make that big of a deal out of it. They misread the room massively and along the way, learn a lot about love and what it means to be close to another person. Honjouji Rika, the female lead, loves maps, geography, and travel. She collects rocks. She can talk about maps and geography for forever if you let her. Takuya Oohara loves his cat. Both are constantly overthinking because they can't tell what's going on in other people's heads. It was genuinely sweet. It felt like one of the first times I'd seen myself in a romance story.

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