Mette Harrison
5 min readApr 19, 2022

Is Mr. Darcy Autistic?

I love Mr. Darcy, but the more I’ve learned about my own autism, the more I think I love Mr. Darcy because he has the same traits. Mr. Darcy has very rigid ideas of moral codes and about obligations socially. Does rigid seem a good way to describe that? What about Mr. Darcy’s tendency to stick with the familiar and his resistance to falling in love with Elizabeth, yet his inability to deal with her rejection, once he has become attached? All of these seem to me…

Mette Harrison

Autist, Ironman Worlds triathlete, Writer, Right-Brained