u/napyarn

From looking it up I'm seeing a lot of folks agree that Parker is very autistic-coded. No one is talking about Eliot Spencer being autistic-coded too though. Anyone else agree with me?

There are some really good episodes with Parker and Spencer relating on being different in similar ways to the rest of the team, while acknowledging they are still different from each other.

Also Spencer knows basically everything there is to know about weapons and military groups including haircuts and boot prints. Definitely not trying to boil autism down to "special interest" kind of stereotyping, but it often seems to mirror how Parker is about the things she knows a lot about. They both go "uh, I'm not the weird one for knowing [x extremely niche thing], you all are" pretty often.

Thoughts?

(Note, I am not autistic but I have severe OCD and there's a lot of overlap between autism, ADHD, and anxiety disorders. I've ended up with a lot of friends and a partner with various compositions of the diagnoses and I definitely have more in common with my autistic friends than the ADHD ones. Spencer has more relatable OCD stuff to me than Parker, but not by enough to make me think he was intended to be portrayed that way)