Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST :  

LTL, FTP, Etc.

So, a little bit of backstory. I've been home-schooled for my entire life, and am currently working on passing the SATs. Several years ago my mother enrolled me in a private class with a professor of chemistry who also had worked as a science teacher in a high-school before. So, as expected, the students enrolled in my class are not going to be your typical high-schoolers (I don't mean that in a bad way, I just noticed that they act a little different than my friends who went to high-school, as well as the fact that there are slightly older people in the class as well).

Sorry for all the useless information, I just want everyone to have all the info here. Anyways, on to the actual story:

There's been a classmate of mine for my past two years of school who i'm pretty concerned about. We'll call him T. T is known in my class for a number of things, few of which are normal, none of which are good memories. The first thing I can remember of him is when he first found out one of my friends was Jewish, and went on a tirade of Hitler jokes and Holocaust references. Some of his other highlights include:

* Throwing a film canister filled with vinegar and baking soda at my table. (And no, it wasn't for *that* experiment.)
* Saying "Honestly, he's just a Rartyfag. Just like (My name) here." as I was passing him and his friend walking to my car.
* Showing up to class several times in a full trench coat and fedora in the middle of the Texas summer.
* Keeping homemade knives in said trench coat and showing them off in class. He also showed up with a balisong one time, which are illegal unless they are under a certain length, and this one was pushing it.
* Showing up to class several times in a red white and blue leather biker's jacket.
* Showing up to class several time in a MAGA hat to annoy any liberal people at the class. (He admitted to this, calling them libtards.)
* Un-ironically asking "Is that supposed to be a joke?" After a 45 minute lecture about identifying different orbitals. He got really upset when told to take the class a little more seriously.
* Refusing to take any notes, or do any homework for that matter.

After nearly two consecutive years of class with him, I've begun to assemble a mental picture of his habits, and I feel bad about my result. I have the sneaking suspicion that T is either High-functionally autistic, or has a similar affliction (I never researched anything just because I don't want to give the thought any room to grow.). Am I wrong for letting myself think that? Is he just a normal Teenager? If he suffers from a mental illness, should I approach the situation differently? My current course of action has just been to ignore his existence entirely. And to be clear, I've never brought this up with him, but I've told friends about my thoughts, and they think i'm wrong.