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I believe Snape is autistic

(FYI: I’m autistic myself and I have autistic children.)

He’s lonely. He doesn’t really have friends. We know of Lily, we also hear about Lucius Malfoy, but we don’t really see their friendship which in my opinion is much less close than fans believe. As a student he’s so alone that no one but Lily tries to stop the bullying.

He doesn’t participate in any social meetings. He’s quite miserable during the Christmas in Harry’s third year. He patrols the corridors and the grounds instead of attending the Yule Ball. He doesn’t stay for dinner after the Order meetings. He only attends the DE meetings because he has to.

His peers at school think he’s weird. Lily’s friends from Gryffindor don’t understand why she’s friends with him. When Harry asks why the Marauders bullied him, Sirius says he was different, weird, he was an "oddball". Autistic children and teenagers are often bullied because they are perceived as not normal, awkward, weird.

He doesn’t make a normal eye contact, he stares a bit too much. It can be partly explained by Legillimency, but he stared too much even as a teenager.

There’s a difference between how he speaks as a teenager and as an adult. It doesn’t sound entirely natural, he definitely had to put effort into that. It’s partly because he doesn’t want to sound like a poor man with a northern (?) accent, but autistic struggle with fluent communication may also be a reason.

He insists on precise definitions: Legilimency is not mind-reading, ghosts are not transparent but they are imprints of departed souls. He’s irritated that Harry has "no subtlety" and he doesn’t "understand fine distinctions".

He’s quite rude. He might be just *evil*, but he may just not fully understand how cruel he actually sounds. From his point of view he’s just honest and doesn’t beat around the bush. OK, maybe he’s a little mean, but not cruel… right?

He uses sarcasm (a lot of autistics actually do), but he doesn’t really appreciate Harry’s and other people’s sass, he treats their words too seriously.

He usually speaks coldly / calmly / without much emotion.

He’s usually dispassionate, he has limited facial expressions. Many autistic people also have a "resting b!tch face" unless they try to look more "normal". Perhaps he isn’t always as hateful as Harry thinks, perhaps it’s just his face.

He seems a little oblivious to other people’s emotional state and seems to analyse their behavior more intellectually.

He has special interests: Dark Arts / DADA and Potions.

He has his own collection of Potions ingredients, including rare ones, collection of weird jars (I guess they may contain some Potions ingredients, but also he may like them because of visual stimming aspect) and vast collection of books at home.

His Potions ingredients must be very orderly, he knows immediately that something is missing and what it is.

He "loves" rules. Students are breaking the rules? He takes points or gives detention. The Marauders are bullying him? He wants them expelled. (While Harry deals with the bullies on his own.) He’s caught Sirius whom he believes to be responsible for Lily’s death? He’s going to hand him over to the Ministry and the Dementors. (While Sirius and Remus want to murder Peter themselves.)

Since Snape likes rules and order, Harry who is a bit wild and unpredictable annoys him.

He doesn’t wash his hair as often as he should. It could be partly because of his poor background (he was neglected, he wasn’t taught to take a proper care of his hair, he didn’t even have a real bathroom as a child), partly because he has no one to look nice for, partly because of the Potions fumes. Autism might make him care less about his appearance. (He does care about hygiene though. Apparently he shaves regularly and Harry would certainly notice if Snape was dirty or smelly. His sallow skin and teeth have nothing to do with hygiene, it’s a result of his poverty and malnutrition.)

He stimms: He’s shredding leaves as a child. He’s flexing his fingers after the Shrieking Shack incident. During the Occlumency lessons he’s touching his lips with his finger while he’s thinking.

He has some sensory issues. He wears the same, a little baggy robes (they flutter as he walks). He’s sensitive to light: his Potions classroom is dim (it’s in the dungeons, but he could brighten it up with magic); he makes his DADA classroom dim, even though it’s no longer in the dungeons; when Harry comes to his first Occlumency lesson, Snape waits for him in a dark room. (You know, people don’t do things like that because they’re evil, it doesn’t make sense).

As a teenager he walks "like a spider" and generally he isn’t good at sports (we see him on a broom three times: in a memory of his unsuccessful flying lesson at school, being very pale and probably frightened after refereeing the Quidditch match in PS and trying to curse a DE and missing during the Battle of Seven Harrys).

John Nettleship whom Snape was partly based on was probably autistic.

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Made some silly Remadora

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every hans moment ever (65/86)

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every hans moment ever (02/86)

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every hans moment ever (45/86)

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slapping this badge on my blog

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fun in the snow

pinoy severitus eating jollibee

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Thinking of how in PS, Hagrid had to force Harry to stop reading a book about curses and jinxes and hexes, and how someone (I can't remember where) used it to point out that 1) Snape's interest in the "Dark Arts" and knowing curses was actually very natural in an 11 year old boy and 2) Harry and Snape were similar (can't remember if they made that point or if I noticed it)

So I give you severitus where Harry ends up becoming a miniature Snape because he ends up liking exactly the same things as Snape. Clothes? He asks for the gothic, most dramatic set that makes him look like a baby vampire. Books? Every single book Snape has on the Dark Arts (even the ones Snape stole from the restricted section), and when Minerva begs Snape to get the boy some fiction Harry reads only gothic horror that might not be entirely age appropriate (Severus doesn't know how that actually works, with the Slytherins he goes by what their parents would get mad at if they read it, but he has no such frame of reference for Harry so Harry can read whatever). Even toys or games- somehow there's always a lot of dark stuff getting involved that makes Snape actually rather invested in joining in. Harry even starts picking up Snape's habits of looking at someone and speaking in dramatic words that make you feel like he's cursing you (made all the freakier because this is a small kid who isn't blinking. Yes, he picked up the non-blinking from Snape too).

Just Harry and Severus being the exact same kind of weirdos who obsess over incredibly dark topics, dress like a pair of vampires, and invent fancy curse rituals in their spare time because simply hexing someone is boring, there must be a ceremony of it.

Also they eat too much chocolate at stupid hours, because they're both just a pair of boys left alone to do what they like because their parents aren't home (they've lost count of the amount of times Minerva walked in on a marathon of old horror movies at ridiculous hours in the morning and scolded them for it)

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Supernatural and Tracker parallels (or Jensen never letting go of Dean and SPN)

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The fact that this is 80 fucking years ago but still just as relevant is terrifying.

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strangers being kind to you is one of the best things ever because you know that they gain nothing from it and they probably will never see you again but they just choose to be kind