Character Mental Illnesses In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Character Mental Illnesses
Imagine being on the run working as a Laborers and having a partner, not like any other, big and strong, but has the mind of a child. In the story Of Mice and Men there are two main characters, George and Lennie. Lennie suffers from Autism from my diagnoses that will be further explained later. George suffers from depression from a screening I ran.
Lennie is a man who is broad, and has the mind of a young child. Lennie has autism from my diagnoses, of course how can I prove this if I have never met Lennie? I can prove this because of his actions, how he talks, and how he interprets some situations. For example, in the story there is a part where Lennie is talking to George and has some strange behavior about something

So Lennie walks off to go get wood for a fire because they are going to eat supper, Lennie walks down the trail only for George to hear him stop and splash in the water. Lennie comes back and immediately George tells him to give him the mouse. George knows Lennie has a mouse only because earlier in the story he had one, a dead one, and George got rid of it . Now the reason Lennie kept on picking up mice was because of their texture. A symptom of Autism is for them to enjoy textures and always want to feel them, it’s soothing to them. Later on in the story you find out they had to run from their last job because Lennie had felt a ladies dress, only for its texture not to make her uncomfortable. Of course back in the 1900’s they had no idea that autism had existed. So she screamed expecting he had the idea to rape her, her scream only scarred him and made him hang on tighter to her dress, only then George had to punch him to let go and run. Then again he

Now as a guy he wants to go have fun, get girls, make money all the good stuff. He can't when he has a big guy following him around everywhere questioning everything they do. Now this man has dedicated his safety and his life to Lennie and for what? Nothing, just because they are family. He watches over him and treats him like a brother. Now the fact that George has no social life other than Lennie and has to be fly low on everyone’s radar, is depressing. So for George’s mental illness he begins with mid depression, meaning it's not super obvious but he does have it. Then at the end of the story after killing the one person he had and had been taking care of, his depression spikes making him super numb and slow. Both symptoms of depression. So George has been suffering the whole story but in the end it spikes higher than