Autistic Arthur Shappey (Cabin Pressure)
Cabin Pressure is a BBC radio show following the four members of MJN Air, an airdot (because you need more than one plane to have an airline) run by Carolyn Knapp-Shappey. Arthur Shappey is the steward of the plane and Carolyn’s son. Arthur is voiced by John Finnemore, the creator of Cabin Pressure who also wrote every episode.
Arthur stood out to me as autistic from the 2nd episode when he mentioned taking a course on understanding people. Because autistic headcanons are turning into a new special interest of mine, I decided to create this list of reasons why Arthur is very much autistic. (I’m also working on one for Martin Crieff, another character on the show.)
The traits focused on were taken from this list of Inclusive Autistic Traits.
All the examples below were taken from transcripts at this website.Â
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