Jelly, 44 5 bytes
Ṣm0wṢm0ẇ@ Returns the indexOriginally was (1-based) of the first match in the concatenation of the sorted and reverse sorted, otherwise returns 0. In Jelly, zero is considered falsey and non-zero is truthyṢm0w at four bytes.
Explanation
Ṣm0wṢm0ẇ@ Input: string S Ṣ Sort S m0 Concatenate sort(S) with reverse(sort(S)) wẇ@ FindSublist theexists? firstCheck indexif thatS containsis S,contained elsein 0the previous result