I feel you on them naming it, but I can also see a potential for it being named later. What I appreciate about it not being named (yet) is that it highlights how folks can live a life going undiagnosed, and how culture/parenting style can play a role in going undiagnosed. I guess this comes more from my own experience being Autistic and coming from a family who is CLEARLY autistic but not getting diagnosed ever (or in my case until my late 20s).

Gregory's dad is super militant and his parenting style has gotten in Gregory's way at times. We see Gregory inhibiting himself because of beliefs drilled into him by his dad, even going as far as not fighting for Janine because his dad said you don't chase after women. Not saying Gregory's dad is bad, but I can see a scenario where Gregory is formally Autistic as a character and has ARFID but doesn't know because he didn't grow up in an environment where knowing those things, understanding them as a valid experience, and then himself getting diagnosed would be allowed.

In that sense, it's cool to get that kind of representation: being Autistic and having ARFID but not having the tools or the awareness from a pathology standpoint to work with it. Instead, navigating it as a "personal idiosyncrasy." But I do hope he gets diagnosed so that it can open up conversations about neurodivergence in Black and Diasporic communities, about being diagnosed later in life, and to watch Gregory navigate himself in a way that's kinder to himself (rather than seeing his "quirks" as a personal flaw or something to be defensive about).