#DIRECTLY ASK BRIONY ABOUT THE SOCKS
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i just need to know does anyone else feel like briony from atonement is autistic?? like dgmw i really do get why people dont like her, but that doesnt mean she cant be autistic,,, its like its the way shes gets so caught up in her own thoughts that she fails to recognize other possibilities, like obviously thats not something exclusive to or definitively a part of autism, but i just i feel i definitely do that too,, oh also just adding in there her pride in being tidy and her need for control, and like people always describe her as "pretentious" and "entitled" but like idk i dont see it, like the part where she gets somewhat upset at finding out the twins are wearing her socks, its like idk cecilia didnt ask or let her know that she was letting the twins borrow briony's socks, even though its something small, to someone like briony who seems to value her stuff, i could imagine it would be off putting to find someone had taken/used it without at least letting her have a say in it, like i cant say for sure that she wouldve let them wear the socks if she was asked, but maybe she couldve pointed them to a pair she was more okay with loaning out, like idk, i know in the grand scheme of things and of the story the socks dont matter but i just keep thinking of it,, but also idk i at least have some respect for her because she doesnt try to shift the blame onto anyone else, she even says herself “She would never be able to console herself that she was pressured or bullied. She never was, She trapped herself, she marched into the labyrinth of her own construction, and was too young, too awestruck, too keen to please, to insist on making her own way back.”
#yeah idfk#but briony just screams autism to me#everyone irl that ive discussed this with have said “well i dont think it was intentional” for some reason#like okay? and? like obviously not to bash them because i dont think they meant anything bad by it#but like literature is meant to be subjective ya know#yes the authors intentions with a piece and a character matter and give insight into why things turned out the way they did#but that doesnt mean the different interpretations cant exist#briony tallis#atonement#OK EDIT: I KNOW ITS STUPID BUT I MADE THIS POST BEFORE READING THE WHOLE SOCK SCENE I HAVE NOW READ IT AND UNDERSTAND WHY CECILIA COULDNT#DIRECTLY ASK BRIONY ABOUT THE SOCKS#(i still think its fair for briony to be initially upset though even thought again it doesnt really matter)#but yeah im actually reading reading the book now and the more i read the more autistic i think briony is
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