The shade of the hat is bending slightly so the front is directly towards your point of view.
So yes it's perspective. There is nothing wrong with it IMO.
Not all cats. But some more than others. Like on a spectrum. (Maybe all of them are in a spectrum, but our dog was afraid of similar stuff AND socially incapable AND a picky eater AND had triggers AND rituals,... still not really autistic by a medical sense but a human would have ticked lots of ICD 10 boxes.)