How I perceive this overall situation with Ruby from the little interaction and reading this whole thread (but no previous threads), is that Ruby is trying to understand more, but she has a lot of emotional issues and blocks in the way for now.

In part because of how her brain may have limits for social processing, yes and in part it may also be the emotional and/or other abuse. These both can cause issues with social processing. I.e. simply having less ability to easily do social skills (or learning about them takes longer than for most people) VS trauma from abuse will also cause very similar issues, that make the person look like they just have no capability to do social skills even if they had existing social skills pre-trauma. With Ruby, again I think it's both. (Of course this is just my own opinion and thoughts.) And btw I would hardly call trauma a disorder in the sense I would refer to a disorder with the brain, though it can leave lasting effects too. But that's my subjective view


By the way that - that it was other people influencing the GM - is only a working hypothesis for me for now, because I've not been there to witness the actual situations. It's a believable one, but it never hurts to confirm with more information. Even if you (general you) cannot always have all the information, you can of course have the most likely hypothesis and work with that in the end and be satisfied that you may never know more but you can still learn from the whole thing.