Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26061718-20150322195340/@comment-26061718-20150323043457

I always found it odd how fussy she gets all the time. It is almost like she is switching back and forth between mental functionality and mental discombobulation. At first I thought nothing of this behavior, I thought this was just her personality. Then I realized how anxious and fussy Pearl is, and then theorized that her anxiety was due to psychological trauma endured during the gem war and having lived so long and then losing someone so precious to you such a short while ago. But this theory, I realized that there is a lot of backing to Pearl having autisic traits, and I am not even sure how I did not pick up on the hand stemming. Pearl exhibits some traits that my autistic sibling does, such as hand stemming, lack of social understanding, etc. I didn't think to compare the traits. But I see a lot of it now. And I think it's a beautiful theory.