#autistic obi wan kenobi

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Ever since that scene in the last season of the clone wars where Bo-Katan implies Obi-Wan didnt care enough for Satine, I cant stop thinking that Obi-Wan doesn’t show his emotions in quite a neurotypical fashion. I know a lot of people just automatically assume its “emotion trained out of him by the evil jedi” but even other jedi characters do seem to have more facial and visual cues in their expressions. Obi-Wan’s most clear emotions seems to come out in heightened times of stress (Battle of Theed, Mandalore, Mustafar), and if he can he tries to hide what he can (Turning away from Bo-Katan and everyone else after her accusation). He also has certain mannerisms that he falls back on such as chin stroking and folding his arms underneath his clock. I often feel like his and Anakins missed communication skills come from not Obi-Wan not caring or trying to get Anakin to stop talking about things but that Anakin assumes that Obi-Wan doesn’t want him to talk even when he offers because he’s not portraying the “correct” emotions. Obi-Wan does take the time to check on Anakin and ask how he’s doing and even talks to others about his worry for Anakin, but he also doesn’t push Anakin to tell him. Anakin seems to have a personality where he both pushes and wants to be pushed but Obi-Wan seems to want to wait until Anakin is ready. Unfortunately Anakin most likely is ready, he’s just waiting for answer from a cue that Obi-Wan doesnt see.
Anyways the point is that, I can 100% see Obi-Wan on the autistic spectrum. Adherence to tradition and routine (or at least wants and tries to do so, see his Jedi specific clothing when its not required), self-soothing behavior (folding arms within his cloak, crossing arms), stimming (constant chin/beard stroking plus it was confirmed that Padawan!Obi-Wan chewed on his padawan braid), not following cues (see Anakin bringing up his dreams but not expanding on them, basically waiting for Obi-Wan to pry but Obi-Wan doesnt figure that out), emotions aren’t shown heavily and when they are its almost always in high stress situations, dislikes droids (no reason shown why), and extremely good with animals.