I find it so interesting that kit seems to be pretty good at understanding Ty (in regards to being autistic, his family understands but kit is the only one to use terminology etc) yet doesn’t understand Ty at all when it comes to other things. It’s really contradictory and it makes their relationship all the more interesting to me.
He painted Ty in his head as someone who was purely good, and when Ty doesn’t completely fit that box his view of Ty almost entirely changes to fit that. Everything Ty and he had become lies. Really speaks volumes to what Johnny Rook taught him to think and how look at people.
He may not be saying “this person is easy to trick, this person isn’t” but when I read TDA I got the sense he was constantly trying to place the people he was meeting in his head, because that’s what his dad did to con people and sell/get information. Makes sense why he almost immediately clocked Ty’s autism, but why he still struggles to understand Ty because his actions in QoAAD are so different compared to the perception he had of Ty. But Ty isn’t necessarily morally gray in my opinion, he was a greiving teenager. And he didn’t even grieve the way kit expected him to (which is stupid because greif doesn’t work like thar but kit was 15 so I’ll let it slide) and that already made kit unsteady.
