Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1023843-20171030064529/@comment-33279747-20171129002110

Actually Lucy is even less sociable than Lisa. The logic being used to "diagnose" Lisa as autistic could really be applied to a third of the characters on the show. In fact I've already seen it applied to Leni (abnormal posture), Luan (selective, intensely-focused interests), Lucy (simply because she is quiet, plus the same reason for Luan), Lana (again with the interests) and even Clyde (???). You'd really have to sit them down and talk with them at length for these "diagnoses" to have any validity. I believe there's a significant degree of confirmation bias on behalf of the individuals who are making these claims, since I'm getting a strong vibe of people wanting these characters to have the condition they are "diagnosing" them with. The traits these characters exhibit are not exclusive to the autism spectrum - there are many other conditions/disorders that their symptoms could point to, but nobody ever seems to mention them because they don't have as much publicity or media attention as autism does at the moment (for example: the Schizophrenia/Schizotypal/Schizoid spectrum, anxiety disorders, other emotional/behavioral disorders - look these up thoroughly before jumping to conclusions).