That would be an interesting psychological trait, that she’s unable to process visually abstract figures to see what they’re supposed to represent. Wonder whether that would be a personal trait or a racial one, shared with all other spider-folk.
Rather than pessimism vs optimism, I think she just takes it too literally somehow. Like "oh, that's not exactly how a bunny looks, so it's not a bunny".
As a brother of 10 year old, yes it does. The food either must look Delicious, Cute or Cool (Dinosaurs and such). I like cooking and cutting vegetables so it's a joy to cook up and decorate food for this brat.