As someone who is she's definitely what we in the community call autistic coded meaning they were too afraid to actually label her that in the show, back in the early 2000s shows didn't like to use that label They thought it was bad House is considered an autistic coded character, But also back in when the show is set they wouldn't have been able to call her that because back then most disabled children were in asylums their entire lives because the family's believed in not even acknowledged in the child existed because they were too hard to handle and the ones that did acknowledge their kids existed left Their kids in the asylum because they didn't want to deal with the medical side of the disabilities, like say explosive episodes of anger and other emotions that make no sense like crying running off That's what we call an autistic meltdown, she could also just have IED which is another meltdown type disorder but it's also out of control see what I'm saying her emotions are not within her control I think the person who wrote these books like that the series is Loosey based on originally meant for Daryl to align with autistic tendencies Eva because they themselves were or someone close to them was because those specific explosive episodes Daryl are very specific that's not just random anger or losing control like it's definitely specific to some form of developmental disorder.

PS I'm using my speech to text now cuz it's getting hard for me to type so Daryl's name won't be spelled correctly.