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[Of Mice and Men]does Lennie have a specific diagnosable mental disability, or would even a modern psychologist concluded he's just an otherwise normal person who happens be of low intelligence?
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In that time you don't grow to old age without picking up some street smarts and learning how the world works. He was very likely autistic. The movie (imo) did a great job of demonstrating this. A lot like in Rainman, where the titular character was not 'stupid' by any way, he was just bad at picking up on social cues. Lenny was a good worker, a good person, and a man with a dream that he worked towards often. He just ... didn't know how to do certain things. When he killed that lady, he *knew* he did wrong. When he killed the bunny, he *knew* he did wrong. He just did not have the mental aptitude to realize how not to do that.

I guess in a sense, he was stupid, and just didn't "know his own strength" but at a certain level when does "stupid" and "mentally disabled" differ?