( Nepeta actually does have a lot of traits typical of autistic people such as the doodling you noticed and obsessive hobbies such as how everyone has to sort of talk to her in RP terms and make it clear when they aren’t RPing )

( Nepeta is coded as autistic, but unfortunately im pretty sure that statement karkat made was actually meant as an insult  :( I wish hussie hadnt written stuff like that in the comic tbh, hopefully he will do better in future works and….Not……..)

My Screener talked to me on this one saying that her being coded autistic is more of a headcanon thing, but honestly it’s nice to hear people seeing her like that. I don’t know if I personally see her coded as autistic yet, but that’s because I haven’t seen much of Nepeta yet, and I tend to be obtuse in these type of situations. But really, Hussie is pulling a Rick Riordan with his representation here. 

And to Anon, I wouldn’t take Karkat’s words to heart. With the Way Hussie was writing his characters, I can see him making Karkat be offensive like that, but not Hussie himself. I mean, Hussie made Dave dick jokes against gay people, and I literally just finished reading a classist supremacist, and I’m pretty sure that Hussie doesn’t believe in those things either.

Not to say that the intent isn’t harmful, but that was more from the character that Hussie created than Hussie himself.