WHY ROBIN BUCKLEY FROM STRANGER THINGS IS AUTISTIC. (Written by an autistic Robin Buckley fan)
Robin Buckley (played by the lovely Maya Hawke) from Stranger Things is autistic. While it is not confirmed on the show, she is very much heavily coded that she is autistic and this article will explain why I (and many other autistic Robin fans) say she is autistic.
In Stranger Things season 3, we are introduced to Robin Buckley, a character who works with Steve Harrington at Scoops Ahoy and she is canonically a lesbian after rejecting Steve, who confessed his liking towards her and opening up (though. nervously at first) about liking a girl.
While we did not get to know Robin all that well in season 3, we got to know more about her in season four. And in season four, she shows signs of being coded autistic.
In episode 3 of season four, Robin and Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) visit the library to do research on why kids are dying and she informs Nancy that if she (Robin) says something that upsets her, she does not do it on purpose, as she has poor grasp of social cues, which is a common sign of autism.
In episode 4 of season four, Robin and Nancy visit Pennhurst Asylum to visit patient Victor Creel and she has to wear Nancy’s clothes. She ends up complaining about how the clothes feel on her, talking about how they hurt and make her feel like she can’t breathe. Sensory overload is another common thing in autism, which Robin showed signs of during her time wearing clothes.
In another episode, Robin, Steve, Max, Lucas, Dustin, and Nancy visit the creel house and Robin at one point mentions that she learned to walk as a baby a lot later than most, which is another common sign in autism.
While it is not confirmed by the writers nor in the show itself, Robin shows clear signs of being on the autism spectrum and her being canonically autistic would be very special to myself and autistic fans alike.
