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>Yeah he's incredibly emotional immature in the sense that he doesn't know how to understand or deal with them. He's been working on it and making improvements, but this will be a long and slow journey.
>There's some inner issue that he doesn't understand, know what it is, or how to deal with it.
>I made this post hoping for any anons who may have any ideas what the issues could be, so I can talk to him about it, and see if it can give some better insight into the issue

Sounds like a really typical male autist whose parents didn't understand his disorder...autism is truly complicated. You seem kind with the right attitude and already well-versed on basic psychology already so I highly recommend reading this book to get a better understanding of autism...can be a bit intimidating since this book is a textbook but its not too technically and pretty approachable. Autistic people really have complicated upbringings if their parents weren't aware of it and treated them harshly normally and they way they process things can either lead to them shutting down (internalizing) or anger (tantrums).

You might not be able to help him...he might need an actual clinican/psychotherapist specializing in Autism Spectrum Disorder but if he doesn't feel comfortable and doesn't open up there's no hope...perhaps that where your role comes in.

This book is a good introduction I can offer a few more that's better for actually supporting someone with autism and trauma like personal accounts and stories but you need to be careful since ASD is very mysterious and even among cutting edge academics our understanding of it changed alot in the last 20 especially 10 years so don't read anything too old since it's probably very outdated.

Anyways, good luck anonette.