Why Entrapta Is Autistic (An Infodump By An Autistic Person)
1. Special interests/infodumping
This is easily the most obvious of all autistic traits to pin down in Entrapta. She adores technology, often changing the subject to her work and getting excited when talking about it.
She also infodumps! A lot. Even when people are visibly confused or even bored, she will continue to talk about technology, being very, very happy and enthusiastic; even while in extremely dangerous situations.
Example: Rather than actually helping Adora while she is infected by a virus, Entrapta wants to dissect her to learn about the virus (which may also show the lack of empathy also commonly found in autistic folk.)
2. Misunderstanding social cues
Obviously, that last example was a big showing of exactly how oblivious Entrapta is to social situations. She’s often portrayed as unrelentingly loud and cheerful, even in awkward or dangerous situations.
Another example of this can be her being captured by Catra, where she kept on going back to her confines, even after she can escape; because that’s what she believes to be the “correct” action to take in this social situation.
She can also come across as creepy but, clearly, is very sweet, which is something I see a lot in autistic folks. (Girls, in particular!)
Also; maybe she wears those goggles so often because she has trouble with eye contact? Just saying.
3. Black and white views (and more on special interests)
Autistic people tend to have a very black and white view on the world, and can be rather stubborn. And while Entrapta shows her stubborn, blind loyalty while being interrogated by Catra, as soon as she realizes her friends aren’t coming back…
Her black and white view changes, and she shows almost no remorse for helping people who she previously thought were horrible.
Also; notice how Entrapta acts when Catra asks about technology. Saying things like, “Nobody EVER asks about my theories!” with great enthusiasm; the first time she is happy about joining their side. Not only is Entrapta joining because she thinks the princesses don’t care, but she’s joining because the horde can give her what the princesses couldn’t; support towards and resources for her special interests.
4. Possible sensory issues
This doesn’t happen all the time, admittedly; however, I did notice how often Entrapta uses her hair rather than her actual body for things involving physical contact.
Also; her obsession with tiny foods sure seems like a sensory issue. Lots of autistic folks only eat a specific type of food, or refuse to eat a certain type. For me, I refuse to eat things that are lumpy (like oatmeal and applesauce). Maybe, for Entrapta, it’s that she won’t eat anything too big.
5. Stimming
Honestly? This might be even easier to convince you of than special interests. The scene that sealed in my mind that Entrapta is 100%, without a doubt autistic:
I do that spinny chair thing all the time when I’m talking to my friends about my special interests. And, though it doesn’t say, she’s talking into that recorder about technology. Just look at that GIF and tell me that it’s not an autistic person happy-stimming as she’s infodumping about her special interest.
Slightly less obvious is her hand and hair motions while talking. She does a LOT of stuff with her arms and hair; obvious stimming, if you ask me!
…That I haven’t really seen people talk about (although they may well have and I’ve just missed it). A lot of people talk about the fact that the show is about people struggling to be good, and about the circumstances and relationships involved in that.
But what I really love about The Good Place is how it portrays evil.
The demons may be conventionally attractive people, but they’re not sexy, even if they may perform sexiness. They’re not evil in some interestingly baroque way. They don’t have manpain or hidden motivations; humans have those, and humans can learn to overcome their worst impulses and do better. The true agents of evil are just petty jerks who hurt people and increase the level of misery in the world because they think it’s fun. Team Cockroach’s failings are human and self-defeating and kinda endearing, but the demons are not only assholes pulling wings off flies and laughing about it, they have a really annoying laugh.
I don’t know when I’ve ever seen a portrayal of evil that so completely represented it as bad and undesirable, rather than interestingly forbidden and probably having more fun.
lowkey pissed that so many parents are against getting their kid an ADHD diagnosis cuz they’re scared of ADHD meds, and by lowkey I mean highkey because
1) you don’t have to take meds if you get diagnosed with ADHD
2) meds work for a lot of people with ADHD and make them feel internally calmer/more in control of themselves
3) you want your child to be as healthy as they can be, so why would you ignore your child’s mental heath just because you’re scared of it?
Also, the “I don’t want him to be labelled!” crowd.
He will be labelled. He’ll be labelled as stupid, lazy, crazy, childish, immature, sensitive, and weird. By his peers, his teachers, his bosses, and by himself.
Or, you could give him a framework for better understanding himself. A neutral label.
I think that Tim, being a Rich Kid, is halfway toward being a pretentious hipster foodie, and halfway toward being a poor college kid with the munchies. As a result, his kitchen is full of imported soft cheeses, pâté, and artisanal crackers, but also like 5 limited edition flavours of Cheetos, 3 kinds of peanut butter, instant noodles, and a single sad jar of strawberry jam.
And Jason, after spending more time at Tim’s, gets really cranky to find that he’s starting to crave fancy-ass brie that’s like, $9 an ounce.
Avengers: Infinity War was pushed forward a week so it wouldn’t compete with Deadpool. Avengers: Endgame has been pushed forward a week so as not to complete with Detective Pikachu. Ryan Reynolds may be much more powerful than first thought.
“look, it’s not like i hid anything, it just never came up!”
“You called yourself out for ‘straighsplaining’“
the whole bi thing goes completely over charles’ head and he keeps getting really aggro like “oh you and jake were real close huh?? too bad, sucker jake is MY best friend!”
everybody else is like “charles no”
at the end john mulaney turns out to be the embezzler they’ve been looking for
The only way Jake Overshare Peralta, Jake TMI Peralta, Jake Heart-On-His-Sleeve Peralta would fail to bring up the fact that he is bi, is if he himself were oblivious to the fact.
Come on @morthils this isn’t Gina Linetti we’re talking about. Stay in character.
The only way Jake would have had a high school boyfriend and not told Amy and Holt is if Jake himself did not realize that this dude was his boyfriend.
He would describe the relationship to Amy and she’d be like, “So you guys were dating” and he’d be like “It wasn’t like that that” and she’d be like:
:|
and Jake would be like, OH MY GOD. I HAD A BOYFRIEND IN HIGH SCHOOL. WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THIS.
Lots of “practice kissing” was involved.
Jake’s mom is absolutely That Overly Supportive Parent with the bumper sticker and the flag who never actually like, talks to her son about it.
“I just thought she was really liberal!”
“Look, everyone has celebrity crushes! Like the entire cast of Infinity War. And some male models. And random good looking people on the street. And sometimes you’re handcuffing a guy with his hands in front and you lock eyes and your faces are close and you can smell his cologne and aftershave and ohhhh ok yup I see it now. Cool. Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool. Yeah, I’m definitely bi.”
Hermione smugly presenting the findings of the international symposium that declared Pluto not a planet as final proof that astrology is made up.
But it turns out that’s what’s been throwing off everyone’s readings so a lot of divination quickly starts becoming more refined and accurate when they take that into account.
Hermione is hailed as a divination savant and that’s what she’s most known in the history books for.
