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Fade31415 In reply to 35096 [2020-03-02 18:05:47 +0000 UTC]

she has a lot of autistic traits (though the word is never used in canon).

Ones I'm thinking of so far:

Her non-verbalness and semi-verbalness (When she starts speaking, she uses short sentences. Verbal still obviously isn't her native language. She watches TV to see how "normal people" talk)

She is very hyper-empathetic (during her kill she sees all of the pain the man she killed is in, which lets her know that it is wrong -- she needed to see this to know it was wrong because she was raised in isolation by an assassin)

she doesn't always have the same social skills the other characters do. the same difficulty with talking like "normal people" i mentioned earlier, she doesn't seem to do her own shopping and is uninterested in a life outside batgirl (when her face is seen by the government agent guys in batgirl 2000, barbara wants them to do something about it, batman suggests that they can use cass's civilian identity and cass is like "Sweet ok i'll just be on call 24/7")

there are also some experiences that aren't like... inherently autistic, but very relatable for me (also autistic ) she talks to stephanie and seems sort of jealous of her life experience (stephanie mentions having a baby and cass says "she's never even been kissed"). oftentimes w/o some of the ease of social skill stuff that allistics have i know i feel like i sort of miss out on some life experiences that everyone else gets. unsure how you feel tho

I made a post about that last 1 here

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35096 In reply to Fade31415 [2020-03-02 20:35:16 +0000 UTC]

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Fade31415 In reply to BobSlasher [2020-02-28 20:24:37 +0000 UTC]

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