She hyperfixates on Luz. Yes, part of this is a crush. ( Which might not be a coincidence, but that’s an entirely different theory). And we can’t ignore the fact that she sees Azura in Luz and is definitely enjoying the parallels between herself and her fictional counterpart. Her interest in Azura is long-lived, starting about the time that her interest in school would have expired (which would explain why she stayed closeted). She destroyed her jock career because she tried to use an Azura move in real-life Grudgby. I mean, she started to reconsider her opinion on Luz when Luz offered her an Azura book. Yeah, she keeps it secret from the world, for most of the time. She hyperfixates on Azura, just like Luz did. Cue the perfectionism she was no longer able to focus on school like she wanted to, but everyone expected her to, so she got insecure about it. Then, her focus shifted, but the school expected her to keep being top student. My theory is that Amity originally was hyperfocused on school–the Abominations track, to be exact–and that’s part of how she got so good. Anyways, we already know she’s a perfectionist. Amity Blight is who you would mistake for a “gifted student.” But make no mistake…she is not gifted, and gifted is a bullshit label used to overexert people and force them to keep school as their special interest for their entire lives (and I may have a bit of a vendetta against it). She initially hyperfixated on school. And that’s how she became top student. In Amity’s case, it’s the fact that she doesn’t see a need to have an expression in calmer moments, so she just uses her usual expression.Īmity hyperfixates. This has several facets, so I’ll break this down. It’s more like…you know that feeling when you’re thinking really hard, or uncomfortable, or ashamed, or even just relaxed, and you can’t think of which expression to wear quickly enough, so you put on an unreadable one to tide people over? Apparently most people don’t do that, since allistic people tend to have expressions for those feelings, ones that arise naturally.Īnother symptom of autism is having hard-to-read expressions, or being less expressive. But even though Luz makes her feel accepted, she keeps doing it. I also call it the Resting Blight Face, for…reasons.Īt first I thought it was just a way to hide her true emotions, since her parents are assholes. You know, the one with her eyes half-lidded, eyebrows raised, mouth slightly downturned. With Amity feeling more comfortable around her new friends than the old ones, I wouldn’t be surprised to see more stimming in the future.Īmity always has The Mask as her expression. She was so excited to be held by Luz that it showed up in her hands flapping…a common stim. At first I thought it was just a cute thing she did, but there’s more to it. While she adorably scrambled for words, she also flapped her hands against her legs. This symptom isn’t very intense her senses aren’t understimulated too often, and she really only does it when she’s really excited. ![]() Even as late as the last episode, Amity fell over when her face got close to Luz’s on the bleachers, because she didn’t expect it.Īmity stims. Okay, this one took me a while to catch, since most of the time, Amity is very controlled with her actions. ![]() Not even Lilith beat Hooty up when he wrapped her up in his mucus-filled tube, but Amity gave Hooty the injuries we all wanted to see him with, because he breached her boundaries without her consent. When Hooty touched Amity’s face without consent, she flipped out and beat him up. Even when she bumped into Luz in Enchanting Grom Fright, her initial instinct was to snap at Luz, since she didn’t expect to be touched. When Luz initially bumped into her at Covention, she snapped at her and degraded her. ![]() That’s because Amity consents to that touch and expects it.īut when other people touch her? She doesn’t take kindly to that. She’s also cool with it when Luz holds her hand after standing near her for enough time that Amity can predict an incoming touch. ![]() See, Amity is really happy when she initiates touch with Luz. The key to autistic touch-aversion is only being okay with touch when she initiates it. Now I would like to present the flipside: Amity is coded as autistic.Īmity is touch-averse. “BuT aMiTy ToUcHeS LuZ aLL tHe TiMe” nice try. In the Owl House fandom, we hear a lot about how Luz is written to be ADHD.
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