The Christmas Bunny

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN0B2yQpvVY&t=102s

It's a movie about a girl in foster care transitioning to her new adoptive home. She prefers to spend all her time watching an old VHS cartoon of the Velveteen Rabbit on loop. On Christmas, her brother and cousin get BB guns and shoot a lost rabbit. The little girl is instantly attached to it. They take it to a vet and he tells them he's not really an exotics specialist but the local "crazy old bunny lady" might be able to help. The girl is mostly non-verbal and when she does speak, it's only about the rabbit or to the rabbit. The girl is basically nonverbal and after a cruel prank where the brother and cousin take the rabbit from the girl, she bites the brother and for the rest of the night, the parents argue about how she needs "special treatment" and doesn't belong in a regular home. She runs away that night and when the police are called out to look for her, they tell the other search team people that she "doesn't speak at all". Autism, Asperger's, or even the concept of special needs are ever mentioned. It is hinted that her biological mother is on drugs all the time. Anyway, does anyone else think they were trying to depict a child with autism here?

I'd certainly think she belongs on the spectrum.