Another botched translation from the LN5 Epilogue;
Maomao is as close to being confirmed autistic as you can POSSIBLY get, short of the DSM falling out of the sky and hitting someone on the head.
The Official English Translation has this passage;
Firsthand experience was just so much more memorable than merely asking questions. That was all. Maomao wasn’t any smarter than the average person, just a little more...dedicated. And when it came to emotion, that she actually had less of than most people. She felt sadness and happiness, anger and joy—less acutely than ordinary people, but they were there. But there were other emotions that people allegedly possessed which Maomao still didn’t understand.
But, no, "a little more... dedicated" changes the intent completely.
Because the kanji used here is the same one for Autism's characteristic special interests, in diagnostic settings.
経験はただ聞くよりもずっと身につきやすくなる、それを実行しているだけだ。猫猫は他人より賢いわけではない。興味が他の人間のそれより偏っているだけだ。そして、猫猫の場合、知識の代わりに感情が人よりも欠落している。喜怒哀楽、それらは乏しいなりに存在する。でも、他人が普通持つという感情のいくつかはいまだよく理解できない。
A more direct translation is this;
Experience teaches far more readily than mere hearing; I'm only putting it into practice. Maomao isn't smarter than others. Her interests are simply more particular/concentrated/specialized than those of other humans. And in Maomao's case, emotions are lacking more than knowledge. Joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure—they exist, however sparsely. But she still doesn't quite grasp some emotions others take for granted.
She also very specifically uses "HUMANS" here. Not just "ordinary people." Other humans. The wording is focused on her alienation from other people and how it leads to wariness and misunderstanding-- something I find extremely familiar as someone with autism myself.
That's important for the overall tone of LN5's epilogue, because the point is that she denies her own value and neglects her personal emotions and desires. Her neurodivergence is part of both aspects.
She isn't calling herself "more dedicated," that's a compliment. She's making a neutral statement to downplay her intelligence, arguing that Jinshi would be making a bad choice if he picked her.
Unfortunately, the "official" English translation is like a death by a thousand cuts. It's the loss of a lot of little details like this, compounded with the MUCH larger mistakes, and the occasional peppering of what seems to be active bowdlerization, that makes it so bad <:/
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