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Made this post 4 years ago and it still holds water today

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Elle Woods is Autistic!

Here's why:

Elle woods doesn’t sense when she’s being socially different from others and talks about her interests regardless of if the people around her express a desire to hear about her interests.

This scene in the courtyard is a great example of her not being able to read the social cues that are being given off. The preppy, staunchly academic kids are trying to one-up each other with schools they went to and academic achievements, whereas Elle just wants to get to know them and see if there are any shared interests among the group.

Elle comes from a very wealthy family, in a very wealthy area. She mostly is friends with people who are pretty and have a lot of money. However, she does not have the stuck-up attitude that one might expect her to. She doesn't recognize status as a social tool to decide who one hangs out with and is just as comfortable with the hairdresser (who is a much different social class) as she is with her sorority sisters. She sees kids who are treated differently for their appearance, and she is confused by why they are treated differently for their looks if they are nice.

In addition, Elle is very trusting and stubborn. She doesn't believe that the client she and her legal team take on would lie to her and is less focused on court room manipulation than she is focused on proving the truth. She exhibits black and white thinking in this way. She trusts the accused woman, she likes the accused woman, and so obviously this woman cannot be lying or be a criminal. She ends up being right in the end, showing that her trusting nature, stubbornness, and honesty are all positive traits.

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Anyone autistic relate to Elle Woods? Not necessarily the hyper-feminine interests of hers, but how she:

- doesn’t quite understand the social rules of people around her

- gets very emotional about things she cares about (possibly to an “”unreasonable”” level (unreasonable to others))

- seeming dumb because of “childish” special interests

- people think she’s dumb because of the above (“childish” special interests / not understanding social cues)

- but you’re actually very smart

🙋🏻‍♀️ Me.

/srs

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elle woods is autistic because in the musical when she finds out warner has a girlfriend she starts flapping so i'm js

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Elle Woods, autistic queen

Elle is the main character in Legally Blonde. Examples here come from the musical because I know it better (cough, song lyrics special interest). Spoilers. (In case the #actuallyautistic tag gets lost: OP is autistic.)

I don’t believe Elle is intentionally written as autistic. However, that doesn’t count for much. Many characters painted as ‘eccentric’ (or 'quirky’, since she’s our heroine) use autistic traits as shorthand for weird, socially awkward and, sometimes, intelligent. Elle is obviously the first and third of those; social traits look very different in autistic girls.

Hyper-social: Girls, in general, do not get the option to grow up antisocial. DFAB autistics will often be forced into social situations and told to be friendly and smile. Of course, autistics can form close and meaningful friendships, regardless of upbringing. Elle being something of a social butterfly doesn’t disqualify her from this neurotype any more than a kid who’s been forced to keep their hands still stops needing to stim.

Special interests part one:

Fashion. Everything around it - she knows about individual construction “it’ll pucker”, has encyclopaedic knowledge of designs she’s seen (“I saw it in last May’s Vogue”), and is also involved in marketing (Fashion Merchandising, a business major). When Elle’s friends bring her fashion magazines to cheer her up, perhaps they aren’t being shallow – perhaps they know that diving into her special subject cheers her up.

Another special interest could be her dog. From what we are told about Bruiser, he is “family” and “loves Days of Our Lives”. This could be straight-up projection – autistics can express themselves through their pets or toys by saying things like “Mr. Bearington is cold” – but it’s completely possible that Elle is right and Bruiser loves soaps. Dogs are routine-driven too, and what companion breed wouldn’t like to cuddle up on the sofa with their human? Even the name Bruiser could be a deft touch of irony, going with the overall theme of not judging by appearances, or it could be a younger Elle picking from a list of dog names without realising that’s not generally something you name a chihuahua. Autistics are capable of either or both of those traits at different times.

Law is not a special interest – to begin with.

Rules, routine, ritual: Oh gosh, this showed up everywhere when I started to look.

Who wears the same colour religiously? Someone rule-bound who finds their favourites and sticks to them like glue. When Elle switches colours in response to social pressure, she does it by updating her rule, not abandoning it: navy is now her signature colour.

Elle is mad principled. She doesn’t like being lied to (who does?) and is inflexible when it comes to giving her word (somewhat more remarkable). While most people grow out of taking double dares seriously by their late teens, for Elle a double swear is quantifiably more serious than a single swear.

Elle clearly loves and flourishes in her sorority, which is full of rules and rituals and even socially acceptable stims (snap when you’re happy or agitated) and has a mutually supportive atmosphere. Elle loves the sorority song – it’s her ringtone and it’s what she uses to connect to Brooke. Nothing was stopping her from blurting out “hey I’m a Delta Nu” but she chose the song. The fact that it’s a call-and-response structure is perfect for autistics, who love it when people Do The Thing.

A cutthroat atmosphere full of contrived competition is particularly horrible for autistics. Callaghan may be an effective lawyer but he’s a pathetic teacher, and the regime he gleefully enacts is both ableist and sexist, geared towards rewarding neurotypical (and psychopathic, as in the condition) men. Of the three women who still manage to earn internships through their own merits, intelligence and determination, two are far from typically feminine in personality, and even Elle only attracts Callaghan’s notice when she cuts down Warner in front of the class.

One more example: I know we’re on musical logic here and maybe we shouldn’t read too far into it, but a gymnastic move that instantly seduces any man as long as he possesses any attraction to women? That’s silly, but it’s the kind of absolute rule that would make sense to autistics. In a boy, this would sound like “he has a special attack that can only be blocked by vibranium!” except vibranium in this case is actually the power of gay, which is way better.

Social impairment: I said this manifested differently in girls, but it’s still there.

Elle shows naive traits – she has absorbed the ideas that love really can conquer all (“you never have to compromise!”/“even a person who’s smart can listen to their heart”). Her plan to win back Warner in particular has a very naive flaw: it proceeds simplistically from A to B and relies on other people acting the way they’re supposed to, which in the end does not happen. Warner has moved on and it floors her (so much, she manifests her own Greek Chorus to comfort and encourage her).

Autistics by default kinda expect people to stay the same and can be taken aback when they change. They also expect people by default to act loyally and logically. Elle is going to prove herself the superior match for Warner, who will then return to her side, having seen his error. (If this sounds like Vulcan thinking, you’re not wrong. Yep, you can have entire autistic-coded species.)

Autistic women can be particularly vulnerable to, and shaken by, sexual harassment, because it’s on the radar for most women but autistics can expect people to behave themselves and not be feral thots.

Special interests part two:

I said law isn’t a special interest at first. Elle is studying it strategically because it’s part of her route from A to B, but she struggles with concentration and remembering detail. (Autism is related to ADHD: both include difficulties with focus.) She doesn’t see why she should continue to study, having completed Step One (get into law school).

IMO you can pinpoint the moment Elle goes from doggedly cramming law to grokking it. “Was that law? Is that the point of law?” (This is even sung to the leitmotif of love.) It’s part of the delightful process of letting go of Warner and exploring how far she can go on her own.

In, as I hope I’ve shown, some uniquely autistic ways, Elle is almost too pure for this world. She’s very lucky she lives in a musical, where people really will be kind and good and get swept up by upbeat songs. She both deserves and works for her happy ending, and the particular trope that is inverted here – in Legally Blonde, the girl gets the nerd – is rather much of an autistic fantasy in itself.

(Luckily again, in this case, the nerd deserves it, by being energetically encouraging, learning to cherish Elle’s uniqueness after being initially critical, standing the hell up for her because it’s the right thing to do, and overall never dipping a toe into the Nice Guy creek. Apparently one of the ways Emmett observed men failing was by watching Megamind, and the world of law is all the better for it.)

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No wait Elle woods passionate love for animals and animals the way she feels most connected to bruiser over any humans in her life low key screams autistic queen (she says as an autistic woman who has a hard time connecting with people but falls in love with any animal she meets)

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Anyone autistic relate to Elle Woods? Not necessarily the hyper-feminine interests of hers, but how she:

- doesn’t quite understand the social rules of people around her

- gets very emotional about things she cares about (possibly to an “”unreasonable”” level (unreasonable to others))

- seeming dumb because of “childish” special interests

- people think she’s dumb because of the above (“childish” special interests / not understanding social cues)

- but you’re actually very smart

🙋🏻‍♀️ Me.

/srs

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Elle Woods is Autistic!

Here's why:

Elle woods doesn’t sense when she’s being socially different from others and talks about her interests regardless of if the people around her express a desire to hear about her interests.

This scene in the courtyard is a great example of her not being able to read the social cues that are being given off. The preppy, staunchly academic kids are trying to one-up each other with schools they went to and academic achievements, whereas Elle just wants to get to know them and see if there are any shared interests among the group.

Elle comes from a very wealthy family, in a very wealthy area. She mostly is friends with people who are pretty and have a lot of money. However, she does not have the stuck-up attitude that one might expect her to. She doesn't recognize status as a social tool to decide who one hangs out with and is just as comfortable with the hairdresser (who is a much different social class) as she is with her sorority sisters. She sees kids who are treated differently for their appearance, and she is confused by why they are treated differently for their looks if they are nice.

In addition, Elle is very trusting and stubborn. She doesn't believe that the client she and her legal team take on would lie to her and is less focused on court room manipulation than she is focused on proving the truth. She exhibits black and white thinking in this way. She trusts the accused woman, she likes the accused woman, and so obviously this woman cannot be lying or be a criminal. She ends up being right in the end, showing that her trusting nature, stubbornness, and honesty are all positive traits.

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Elle Woods is autistic, disabled and has a service dog.

I don't make the rules.

I just enforce them.

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elle woods’ bend and snap is just a yassified autistic raptor hands change my mind

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What makes Elle Woods from Legally Blonde the autistic girlie ever of all time? Here's what the people have to say:

Elle-related asks/reblogs: x This post will be updated after each round!

Image ID in alt text and under the readmore.

[Image ID. White slide with a screenshot of Elle Woods, portrayed by Reese Witherspoon, in the top left corner. She is surrounded by text boxes which read,

"She has her own system for reading and interacting with people. It's a really girlypop view of the world, but one that doesn't feel allistic. Plus, her dedication, attention to details, especially those that fall within her interest, lead to her success! (I am pointing right at the perm rules scene.)"

"Hyperfixated in law school, comfort color, girlboss"

"Special interest (fashion) which ends up being crucial to the story, rejection sensitive, really strives to fit in with social norms (i.e. being in a sorority, dating, dressing "right"), loves animals"

"every rich girl in media who is dumb except about certain stereotypically "girly" things is just autistic with a special interest i rest my case"

"You're just going to have to trust me. But she is frfr. Like, infodumping, missing social cues, specialized knowledge relating to special interests, the whole movie/musical is her succeeding in finding Her Own Way To Do Things. She is just like me fr. Autistic femmes unite!!!!! Also she loves like everything being pink and so do I."

"i bet someone has already submitted her but i will talk about her anyway 🙏🙏 i feel like a lot of people (in the story and in real life) just say that shes rich and naive but i really feel that its more than that! like, one of the main plot points is that she goes to the extreme to try to win back her boyfriend but doesnt realise that its not ‘socially acceptable’. also, she doesnt pick up on the fact that people were making fun of her (eg. in the musical professor callahan says ‘well someones had their morning coffee!’ in a childish tone. but elle doesnt notice this and just smiles happily at it). i think that its not that shes trying to be strong to show the people that it doesnt get to her, i think that she genuinely doesnt realise and frequently misses these social cues. i could go on and on but thats the main idea of it. i love her" End ID.]

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EVERYONE SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANK WELKER

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maybe they shouldn’t have wandered into that pizzeria…

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If Scooby Doo was Jewish:

Fred-Feivel

Daphne-Dafna

Velma-Varda

Shaggy-Slapi

Scooby Doo- Dooby Doo

Scooby instead of a dog is a vintage Teddy Bear since Dooby means Teddy Bear in Hebrew. Also the Teddy Bear has Jewish origins. Has a pull string that makes him talk. Old Hasidic Rabbi voice.

Fred/Feivel is the quintessential Nice Jewish Boy and obsessed with superstitions. Has orange kotel tzitzit and kippah instead of ascot.

Dafna is basically a younger and more naive and innocent version of The Nanny. Loves modest fashion and tzedakah since her family is wealthy.

Varda is the self proclaimed Torah law police. Dry wit and a passionate debater.

Slapi could clear a Shabbat spread faster than the Birkat Hamazon could be sung. Was originally studying to be a scribe but was relieved of his training because he kept dropping food on the parchment.

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i did it i got the trans shaggy clip