Two young autistic girls have raised concern after failing to show a healthy childhood interest in witchcraft typical for neurodivergent girls their age, sources have said.

Twins Lottie and Niamh Fitzgerald, 11, are about to start secondary school, but neither of them have even made one potion at the bottom of the garden, adopted a frog as a familiar, or worked a hex on the local ice cream man, leading their father Robert Fitzgerald, 44, to worry they have missed a key developmental milestone.

Mr. Fitzgerald said: “The girls nearly didn’t get an autism diagnosis because they hit most of their developmental milestones on time. But they’re going to be teenagers in a few years, and they haven’t done even a little bit of witchcraft yet. I’m getting worried.”

“The other autistic girls at their school were already making high-level draughts, elixirs and philtres by the time they were eight years old. Lottie’s never tried to trick me into drinking from a cursed chalice, Niamh has no interest in compiling a grimoire, and I haven’t seen either of them levitating. Not once.”

“No one can tell what’s wrong: our local hag can’t sense a hint of the craft in either of them, and next door’s shambling homunculus said they haven’t attempted to subjugate him yet.”

“They won’t grow up to be well-adjusted autistic women if they don’t start getting serious about black tourmaline. And with Halloween coming up? This will make them stand out even more than those blue sodding buckets.”

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