Has my sister a neuropsychological disorder?

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My sister is above 24 years old now. I would say that she has a kind of what was considered "schizoid (eccentric) psychopathy" by Sukhareva nearly 100 years ago. "Schizoid (eccentric) psychopathy" appears to be and old, obsolete term for what would be considered "relatively mild" ASD, "Asperger syndrome" or mislabeled as NVLD now. It is not a learning disorder or a personality disorder, but different way of feeling and functioning which is "constitutional" condition. I would say that my sister is de facto autistic, even if I can suppose than her chances for meeting official criteria for a PDD/ASD are about 50 - 70 percent. I read that some girls with AS do not show strong autistic symptoms until puberty.

"Schizoid (eccentric) psychopathy" described by Sukhareva is a constitutional condition. I think that it should differ from schizoid personality disorder described by ICD and DSM. Schizoid personality disorder is not constitutional, a person with it appears to be "unemotional loner" with lesser functioning problems than someone with "mild" ASD. People with "milder" forms of autism rather feel a lot and often desire social interactions, but on own rules, I suppose, are not generally "unemotional", may have tantrums and meltdowns, may be verbose.

I would say that she'd have to be assessed by qualified mental health professionals , such as a psychologist , or at the very least a licensed social worker , to be able to say for sure . From the sounds of it though , she seems to be no different than the stereotypical subgroups of high school aged girls . Are they autistic , and or PDD , and if so , what does it matter ? So long as she's not causing problems to others or herself , her individual idiosyncrasies should be of no concern .

I read and heard about autism, also about female autism, a lot and my sister appears to fit neatly to certain kind of autistic presentation for me. I may look at different aspects and things but I see somewhat numerous patterns suggesting that she is genuinely autistic even if she would not meet official PDD/ASD criteria.

Now she is 24 years old and she does not look good in her functioning. Personally I would say that she has a PDD, but I know her pretty weak despite she lived just behind the wall of my room. There are to many similarities to other autistic persons IMHO. Some of them are "coincidental", intriguing. I have "schizotypal autism" (not "mere, common" autism with high IQ and good speech) and my brother is neurotypical and my sister appears to be 50% me 50% my brother so it would give something like "quite slight" autism, not "creepy", schizoanankastic PDD like me and not lack of atypicality like our brother. It correlates with birth parameters and "hypotrophism" level - I had marked asymmetric hypotrophy, my sister was somewhat on the border of mild hypotrophy (I read that I wrote that her birth weight was 2650 g but the largest weight loss was quite large, about 7,5%, to 2450 g (if I wrote it correctly earlier)) and my brother had clearly correct birth parameters, without trace of hypotrophy (3600 g, born on time).

She's 24. Does she have a job? Education? Romantic relationships?