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In fact, if we again refer back to Episode 7, Dr. King gets the best outcome for Terrance just by knowing how important it is to cut out all the excessive noise and lights to keep him more comfortable. At the time, she says she knew what to do because her sister’s on the spectrum, but we’ve seen throughout this season that Mel has some neurodivergent traits herself. So, we can’t help but wonder if we’ll learn more about her. “It’s not a spoken thing,” Dearden told us, “and I talked to the writers originally because it was very clear to me in the script.” She also referred to her own ADHD, pointing out that “we’re on the same spectrum now as autism…which made so much sense when they figured that one out.” And so, “I think it was easier for me to just play some of my own symptoms unmasked, to just kind of be like, ‘all right, if I wasn’t trying so hard to hide this, what would it — what would it look like?'”