Is Hercule Poirot autistic?

As a 10 yr old I related more to a 50 year old Belgian detective in the 1920’s than to any of my peers or the adults around me. I have read nearly all of Agatha's books many times over. I am 100% sure that Poirot was indeed autistic before Agatha had a name for it. I always suspected Agatha was as well. Her attention to detail is phenomenal, her attention to Human Nature even more so. And random autism traits are peppered throughout her characters. (Ariadne Oliver, off the top of my head, but will bookmark autism traits in every audiobook henceforth.) As an aside, I love it when autistic authors use traits they think are “normal” in multiple characters. I noticed recently that Richard Osman does this in *all* of his main characters in The Thursday Murder Club and it tickles me to death! Also David Mitchell’s “Ludwig”, and “Back”. (Seeing the memories of a normal child and an autistic child remembering the same events really hit hard.) If you haven’t seen them, they were the best shows I have seen in a long time. 5 stars. But I digress…

But the reason I am *sure* Agatha was autistic is the story she wrote under the pseudonym (nom de plume?) Mary Westmacott called “Giant’s Bread”. It is not a mystery, nor is it like anything she became famous for. (Except the whole upperclass thing). It is told from the perspective of a child, starting at 3 years of age. There is no way she would think to write of the child’s thought processes, his rich imagination, imaginary friends, echolalia, hatred of noise and being touched, etc… if she didn’t have firsthand knowledge. When he finally has one friend who understands him, I wept, because I remembered how lonely it was being an unDx’d autistic child. 

Has anyone else read this? What are your thoughts?

As a 10 yr old I related more to a 50 year old Belgian detective in the 1920’s than to any of my peers or the adults around me. I have read nearly all of Agatha's books many times over. I am 100% sure that Poirot was indeed autistic before Agatha had a name for it. I always suspected Agatha was as well. Her attention to detail is phenomenal, her attention to Human Nature even more so. And random autism traits are peppered throughout her characters. (Ariadne Oliver, off the top of my head, but will bookmark autism traits in every audiobook henceforth.) As an aside, I love it when autistic authors use traits they think are “normal” in multiple characters. I noticed recently that Richard Osman does this in *all* of his main characters in The Thursday Murder Club and it tickles me to death! Also David Mitchell’s “Ludwig”, and “Back”. (Seeing the memories of a normal child and an autistic child remembering the same events really hit hard.) If you haven’t seen them, they were the best shows I have seen in a long time. 5 stars. But I digress…

But the reason I am *sure* Agatha was autistic is the story she wrote under the pseudonym (nom de plume?) Mary Westmacott called “Giant’s Bread”. It is not a mystery, nor is it like anything she became famous for. (Except the whole upperclass thing). It is told from the perspective of a child, starting at 3 years of age. There is no way she would think to write of the child’s thought processes, his rich imagination, imaginary friends, echolalia, hatred of noise and being touched, etc… if she didn’t have firsthand knowledge. When he finally has one friend who understands him, I wept, because I remembered how lonely it was being an unDx’d autistic child. 

Has anyone else read this? What are your thoughts?