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artsydudejude · 1 year ago

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hey so babe haha hear me out babe what IF.... i made my jekyll & hyde a metaphor for autism..... wherein jekyll represents masking and the hyde transformation is brought on by overstimulation and stress culminating in a meltdown. and then hyde. is just pure unrestrained autism + a whole lotra rage thanks to the stress of prolonged masking.... haha wouldn't that be weird lol probably a dumb idea... unless 👀

#jude speaks #i just got to thinking about how the j to h tf would actually go down and the concept of j getting irritable and f #*and frustrated as hyde comes to the surface and him also maybe self-injuring in attempt to delay the tf started... k #hitting a few relatable nerves for me #and now im picturing a pre-serum jekyll who is hella autistic and while he's learned to cope and mask over many years #he's still not super good at it and grows to resent his own brain and how his quirks have ostracized him #and caused him trouble with getting grants and such because he's BRILLIANT dammit but that wont get you too far when you cant look your #- peers in the eye and you randomly lose your voice when things are too much and you once nearly had a full-blown fit in the uni labs when #- your professor wouldnt put out his pipe and the smell of tobacco and the chatter of the room and the sun coming through the blinds was ju #- just TOO FUCKING MUCH #... and so we get a jekyll who is essentially trying to cure his own autism through a brain-altering serum.#but in the end it really just gives him god-teir masking abilities that culminate in dissociative turbo-autism episodes after a few days #so ye

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