Talk:Every Little Thing She Does/@comment-32875194-20161026050459/@comment-3292369-20170219113343

Before this episode, Starlight would have been my LAST guess for autistic pony because she's shown to be pretty manipulative and in some ways is socially cunning. Here though her social anxiety is incredible, and her manipulation seems to be all rooted in magical skill rather than social skill. If it wasn't for the social anxiety and eagerness to please Twilight, she'd probably come off as more of high functioning sociopath than autistic.

Just as a note, the empathy problems in autism are NOT related to an inability to feel what others feel, but rather to understand the reasoning behind what others feel. Often there is a problem with picking up other people's emotions subconsciously, but not being able to attribute a source to said feelings or describe them as an emotion.