ENTRAPTA IS AUTISTIC!

I have seen many people ask who is autistic when I say we have autistic rep in She ra, so I'm glad to show all of you Noelle via Twitter confirming it!

there’s something that i wanted to point out regarding this awesome tweet:

this is incredibly common among characters who are commonly headcanoned as autistic but not confirmed to be canonically on the spectrum. writers often use people in their lives as inspiration for characters, sometimes while knowing that the person is on the spectrum, and sometimes while just thinking that person is ~quirky/weird. in fact, sometimes a writer might interact with a person who “acts alien”/”is like a robot” and use them as a model for an alien/robot character. wrongplanet is one of the biggest autistic forums for a reason; we often feel alienated from society and identify with alien/robot/etc. characters…who may even be based on us. 

regardless of how it happens, the end result is pretty similar–a character with autistic traits whom autistic people can relate to and identify with. in this case, the writers confirmed their inspiration for entrapta. in other cases, the writers might dance around the subject or deny it because it wasn’t their intention, or, sadly, because they’re ableist. 

i’ve seen people vehemently denying that a character might be autistic, yet loving that character for their autistic traits…which would be funny if it wasn’t so horrifying; people are incredibly ignorant about autistic people, and would rather hate all of us than accept that they might even like one of us. so, basically, to those of you who hate the idea of entrapta being autistic, i gotta ask, why? if it changes nothing about her character, and you like her for who she is including her autistic traits that autistic people have identified over and over, then what’s the problem? 

autistic people have always been around (it’s theorized that changelings were based on autistic children, as one of many real-life examples), and autistic characters based on those autistic people have always been around, whether that was understood/acknowledged or not. autistic headcanons are awesome, and are not necessarily invalidated by word of god due to the degree of ignorance surrounding autism. also, autistic people are awesome.

anyway CANON AUTISTIC ENTRAPTA!!!