#olive doyle

Olive is introduced as a child prodigy with an eidetic memory—able to recall anything she’s ever read, seen, or heard with perfect accuracy. On the surface, she’s presented as the classic “brainy sidekick,” but underneath the jokes and fast facts is a character whose personality, social behavior, and cognitive processing strongly reflect autistic-coded traits.

One of her most distinctive traits is her compulsive info-dumping. She frequently offers unsolicited facts in conversations, often tangential or irrelevant to the topic at hand, and struggles to read the room when others aren’t interested. Her need to share what she knows is not for attention—it’s just how her brain works.

This pattern is closely aligned with hyperlexia, a trait common in autistic individuals, where advanced reading and memory skills pair with a strong urge to process and share knowledge, often as a form of connection or grounding. Olive’s vast knowledge isn’t a performance—it’s her comfort zone, a language she uses to interact with the world.

Olive is often socially blunt, sarcastic, or “too honest,” which leads to awkward or unintentionally harsh moments. She doesn’t always understand sarcasm (despite frequently using it), and her interpretations of situations are often literal or overly logical. Olive tends to intellectualize emotions and relationships, explaining them in terms of statistics, facts, or rational outcomes rather than reading subtext or expressing empathy in expected ways.