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Cherie reminds me a lot of a YouTube channel I discovered a long time ago, with another autistic girl making cartoons and obsessing over a specific character. In her case, it was Nermal the cat from Garfield.No ma'am, this seems to be a unique condition of very autistic women.
There have been a few on the site actually, Cynthia's not even the only one obsessed with an anthropomorphic cockroach man (although that one started out obsessed with a cartoon duck man, before she became enthralled by RegRoach from an obscure canadian children's cartoon). Here's one whose husbando is Seymour Skinner from The Simpsons.
This is what years of Kiwi Farms exposure does to a person, the surreal starts to seem normal. That's a sign of the brain damage setting in.
She lived in some trailer with her mom and would make sporadic videos in between Nermal masturbation to cry and scream at the camera. I think she had some psychosis along with autism, though, cause she genuinely believed Garfield was real and an evil killer plotting to get her.
Unfortunately she DFE'd one day and is inactive so there would be no point making a thread about her, but it echoes what you said about how autistic women seem to gravitate towards relationships with obscure fictional characters. Between her, Cherie, Alex Mulholland, and Amanda Turcol there's definitely a recurring pattern of behavior here. Chris did something similar with Sonichu of course, but I don't think there was a romantic element there, where he saw Sonichu almost like a husband. Women definitely tend to obsess over people (or characters, as the case may be) in a way different from men.
I wonder if the fact these characters tend to be obscure is actually a draw in some way. It makes the attraction more personal when you're the only person that cares about them, compared to if there were a community of fans who could be perceived as competing for affection.