#ISNT autistic/adhd

[meaningofaeons]

lrb and if I ask op if it's okay to write a wrio drabble inspired by their work ..... idol!reader x wriothesley... fan!wriothesley? bodyguard/security!wriothesley?????

[800db-cloud]

i’ve been wanting to do this since day one

[f1zzlest1ckzz]

[sanguinewolves]

just. ugh. youll say “i am experiencing something that is a literal textbook symptom of the disorder i have” and nts will tell you youre making it up and its obviously not a real thing

[autopsyfreak]

i love projecting my mental illnesses onto my silly little comfort characters

[ineffectualdemon]

What's the stupidest neurodivergent cleaning hack that works for you?

For us we actually put clothes in the hamper as long as we have a separate little hamper for underwear

Apparently the act of seperating out the pants means both hampers get used correctly

I am both very glad this works and fucking furious about how stupid it is

[cherrybombfangirl]

I see Autistic/ADHD Lloyd headcanons all the time, but none for his parents which is weird because both ADHD and Autism are genetic. So lets fix that, and during Autism Awareness month no less, yay, #RedInstead bitches!

Autistic Garmadon and ADHD Misako Headcanons (for Autism Month!)

Misako hate is not welcome, we don't do that here, you will be blocked. Autistic Misako headcanons are welcome, I love you if you have that headcanon :). I'm autistic and adhd, so a lot of these will be based on my experience, and I'll try to keep it mostly fluff headcanons, featuring a little bit of Lloyd's autism and adhd <3

Autistic Garmadon

He and Lloyd share a lot of the same autistic traits

Like how if you distrupt the routine or there's a change in established plans both of them will start getting anxious and irritated

You don't distrupt the routine! Stick to the schedule damn it-

Or how both of them CANNOT stand bright lights, never turn on the overhead light, lamps and low lights only. and only predictable/controlled loud noises like music is ok, other loud noises bad

Also they both auditory stim ALL the time. Same song on repeat for days until the new favorite comes along, and they have the same taste in music (rock and punk), so while working on stuff or training one on one they'll blast the same song on repeat

Also both of them are hyperempathetic and get emotional very easily. Hence why they're a lot more emotional and open around each other

Also the Pathological Demand Avoidance is VERY STRONG with both of them. tell them to do something and they'll immediately dread and despite that thing and that thing is the last thing they want to do. (i.e. *is about to go do the dishes* "Hey can you do the dishes?" ... "I was about to. Even wanted to. Now I hate them and that's the last thing I want to do. Thanks for that. Fuck you.")

Both of them also have a very hard time unmasking (for different but similar reasons of how their childhood was), and get exhausted and burnt out fast. Luckily being around each other helps them unmask a bit easier

Garmadon loves Mac-n-Cheese, he'd eat just that for the rest of his life if he could. But only Misako's recipe, all other Mac-n-Cheese tastes WRONG (Lloyd also loves Mac-n-Cheese, but only his mom's recipe)

Sometimes he straight up forgets to talk. Like, he doesn't need to, he doesn't like talking to people, and he just... forgets that he has the ability to talk. So sometimes he might go a while without talking, thinking nothing of it. Then he'll vocal stim or use his voice and shock himself a little because oh shit i forgot i have a voice-

He hid it for a while because he thought it was embarrassing, but he has a huge special interest in sharks, and he is the number one shark defender, he could talk about them for hours (his favorite species is the Lemon Shark and Cookiecutter Shark <3).

^After he starts unmasking a bit he starting being a bit more open about it as well, and that year for his birthday Misako gets him a shark onsie. He just about melts, immediately puts it on, and wears it almost every night. (She thinks its adorable)

For a really long time, he thought the things he was experiencing were a side effect of being part dragon/oni, but then Wu told him "I don't experience any of that, sorry." and then he thought it was a side effect of the venom, but then after the Final Battle it was gone AND HE WAS STILL EXPERIENCING ALL THESE TRAITS, so he couldn't figure out wtf was wrong with him

^Misako was like "Idk sounds normal to me *shrug*" (She has ADHD, of course it sounds normal to her XD)

Lloyd knew he was autistic and adhd for a while because of the other ninja, who were also varying neurodivergencies. When he told his parents about it, they both didn't think anything of it because they didn't know it was genetic yet.

Then Garmadon found out it was genetic and was like "No... me? No way... I'm just an anxious introvert, there's no way."

Then he takes like ten different online assessment tests, and is like "Yeah, i knew it, i knew i wasn't autistic, those questions were worded dumb anyway. No I don't have a problem with socks, you see I have a system-"

And then Lloyd (who connected the dots once he found out autism was genetic) was like, "Dad... Dad... that- that is autistic... having a system for socks to avoid having problems with socks, avoiding places with loud noises and bright lights, and prefering to be by yourself or in silence is very autistic..."

Garmadon: "WHAT"

They figured out how to unmask and fuction as their authentic selves together and it's awesome

ADHD Misako

Similarly, she and Lloyd share a lot of ADHD traits

Like fidgeting, A LOT, always needing extra stimulation and needing to fidget. Usually with nail biting or lip chewing, until they learn less self destructive stims

They also hyperfixate in the same way. Both of them will get lost in the hyperfixation for hours, forgetting to eat, drink or sleep. until they try to stand up or someone reminds them. (Lloyd hyperfixates on comics the same way she hyperfixates on archeology)

Both of them have the worst sense of time and object perception. ("Oh yeah that project will only take fifteen minutes" *takes four hours*) (*losing track of important items and forgetting to eat ro drink water all the time*)

Rejection sensitive dysphoria is very strong for both of them, constantly worrying about annoying other people and being a burden, so they're people pleasers a lot and the slightest whiff of rejection sends them into a self hate spiral that can last for days or weeks (It took a very long time for her to get out of the self hate spiral after her and Lloyd meeting for the first time and him blowing up at her, which she thought she deserved for her huge mistake that she deeply regretted. Eventually they talked and Lloyd came to her and said she shouldn't hate herself forever, he wanted her to be his mom, and she could make up for it now. She still gets into that spiral sometimes.)

Also both of them zone out a lot. Sometimes many thoughts. Sometimes zero thoughts. Staring into space (they love car rides for this reason)

Both of them can be very all or nothing in a lot of things. No social interaction or all the social interaction. Doesn't talk at all or can't shut up. Constantly overshooting it.

Also due to the lack of object perception, both of them are kind of terrible at driving. They can't tell how far away the signs are until they're right in front of it, and are always taking turns that are way too big. Over or underestimating distance a lot. (Garmadon is a pretty terrible driver too, he gets overwhelmed easily). (Also Kai and Nya can confirm that teaching Lloyd to drive was a nightmare, Zane had to do it)

Always hyperfixating on something archeology/history related, she's a huge nerd and cycles through ten different topics (she was a weird kid that liked the morbid stuff in history). Usually dinosaurs, she's secretly obsessed with dinosaurs and hyperfixates on them all over again every other week. A lot of the time Garmadon has to remind her to eat or sleep because she'll be lost in hyperfixation for several hours.

Also has a lot of anxiety and has a hard time sitting still, always has to be moving or fidgeting with something in her hands

Similar to Garmadon, she didn't think anything of it when Lloyd told her he had ADHD, and when she found out it was genetic she thought, "No, it couldn't be me, I just have anxiety..."

She was in denial about it for a while, until Lloyd talked to her with Kai and Jay (Also ADHDers).

Kai asked, "Your teachers sent a lot of notes home about you being 'a pleasure to have in class' weren't you?"

Misako: "How the fuck did you know?"

Kai: "That was me before I had to drop out. I was the perfect little teacher's pet. So was Nya."

Misako sat there for a minute having a crisis because everything made sense now but also like no way, really?

She and Garmadon love talking about prehistoric sharks like the Megladon because that's where their interests intersect

^he also gets her dinosaur encyclopedias every year for her birthday and she loves it (they have diagrams of skeletons and fossils and stuff)

[asexualenjolras]

"Wylan Van Eck isn't canonically autistic so you shouldn't be putting labels onto him."

Um? He's also not "canonically dyslexic" - as you say - because that term is never used in the show but there's no doubt at all that he's severely dyslexic.

Most people that are saying this just don't like the idea of a character they like being on the spectrum, and I find that to be a real problem. He's a very heavily autistic-coded character, and he is canonically disabled. We can put labels on a character that we relate to. As an autistic person, I heavily relate to Wylan. His characterisation felt very authentic.

Jack Wolfe's portrayal of Wylan is very autistic, and telling an autistic person that they shouldn't see themselves in his behaviour is just ableist - I'm tired.

This is a series set in a fantasy universe, they're hardly going to use terminology like ours to describe behaviours. Wylan just is autistic, just as he is dyslexic. He canonically has all of the traits of both. Just because the terms aren't used in canon, it doesn't mean the disabilities aren't there for disabled fans to relate to.

Wylan being autistic doesn't erase his dyslexia because the two are co-morbid and do co-exist.

He stims, he info-dumps about his special interests, he has difficulty socialising, he struggles to make eye contact, he doesn't know how to express his feelings vocally, he bounces when he walks, he carries his comfort bag and clutches onto its handles when he's nervous, he has sensory issues and is shown to cover his ears, he has bad posture and he struggles to read other people's emotions but feels empathy so deeply.

He also has those autistic t-rex arms, as shown here:

This boy is autistic.

Stop telling disabled fans to stop relating to disabled characters - it's gross.

[saturnniidae]

Istg all the dragon riders are neurodivergent.

Hiccup is audhd and dyspraxic.

Astrid is autistic and bipolar.

The twins have adhd.

Fishlegs is autistic.

Snotlout has... something, alright.

[spitblaze]

Gold and Silver are good kids and Gold likes to show up unannounced to Lance's house post-game to bother Silver and Silver is like 'ugh great just what I need a loud annoying weirdo' but they are neither loud nor annoying while they hang out they just quietly sit on the floor reading magazines abt pokemon or playing video games and sometimes Gold will shove something in Silver's face like 'WHOA CHECK THIS OUT' and Silver will be like 'can you quiet down. What stupid thing could possibly get you that excited' as if he wouldn't also be equally excited about the very cool article about Sharpedo Gold just found

[ditzydoodiary]

"its beneficial for you to watch other things in order for you to expand your horizons" no !!! go away !!!! i exclusively watch children's/animated media because it is one of the ONLY types of media/tv shows/movies i can process as an autistic person. everything else is too stressful. im perfectly happy watching only kids media idgaf dont tell me what to do if its something that unnecessary

[autistickremylecroux]

does anyone have any jesper fahey fics where its not just the romanticised parts of adhd? Fics about RSD(rejections sensitivity dysphoria), sensory overload, feeling disconnected from the rest of the crows?

give me angst fics about Jesper being injured due to impulsive acting and having to explain his head to everyone in the crew who just dont understand because ADHD wasn’t coined then?

Adhd was known as a DISEASE around the time soc is said to be set, give me fics of self doubt of Jesper trying to ‘fix himself’ because he doesn’t feel good enough for the rest of the gang

give me a fic of nina,inej and wylan convincing him hes not useless, give me fics of Kaz not understanding but begrudgingly admitting he cares for Jesper as more than just his skills as a sharpshooter

give me hurt/comfort pls

give me more accurate adhd jesper :(

[8-billion-wishes]

Being nerodivergent and having nerodivergent friends is great but also some times i feel like my symptoms dont count ad much as theirs or my special interest doesnt count as much as their hyperfixations do and i dont know how to explain it

[the-pea-and-the-sun]

i keep starting posts abt death note and then stopping to start a new post about some other death note opinion like fuck i have so much to say. i need to relax genuinely. jts just a vaguely misogynist yaoi anime like i need to remind myself that in a year or even probably a few months something else will feel like its encompassing my entire life an dn literally will not matter to me. i know this to be true because this is how i do everything all the time always but its so unbelievable like. autistic obsession rly does make me a little bit delusional every single time. im always like "well THIS art/story/subject is DIFFERENT and clearly of unique importance and significance compared to that last thing i was obsessed with (an every thing ive been obsessed w ever)" like no matter how much i understand that logically to not be the case i genuinely cant convince myself to actually believe it. like ik this time last year i was just as much if not more obsessed with moomin valley but it just. doesnt feel true like it feels unique and special every time its so strange. death note is a story its pretty good its silly its fun its camp its suspenseful like i can acknowledge these things to be true in a normal way but it is also the most important thing on earth to me right now and i need everyone else to know all of the time. its enormous in my mind its radius expands to so many other Important Things to the extent that whether its actually objectively good or significant i could not tell you right now because it is eclipsing my entire mind. i can talk abt its objective value and significance all day but it does not matter bcz i will not stop being able to think about it regardless. fuck man. being autistic is crazy. my most consistent hobby is being in the throws of obsession. also the way im phrasing this sounds like its distressing me but i love it i love being in the throws of obsession i love it every single time it happens i just love it so intensely that the idea of it having less significance to me or to others than it has right now seems incredibly strange. what do other ppl even get out of watching tv shows and reading books if not this. i need to relax i need some coffee

[purpurrock]

Can we please normalize NOT aestheticizing everything? Can we normalize function over fashion?

Like. I know my rooms a mess. I know my bed isnt fixed. But it's livable, it doesnt pose any threat to my safety or health. The things on the floor don't block the path to my door so it's not a fire hazard, and fixing my bed has no real safety benefits other than looking pretty.

I dont want to waste my energy on something I know wont be beneficial to me or last. A nice room will go back to its original state in a few weeks if I'm lucky. Beds get slept on every night.

Of course, my room shouldn't get to the point where it smells, where there's bugs or dishes everywhere, because that isn't healthy or functional. But an undone bed or a few clothes on the dresser doesn't hurt anyone.

It's even worse since I'm disabled, specifically ADHD and autism. I already have time blindness, i don't want to waste my spoons on something so pointless. I will never stop saying function over fashion.

[veetyuh]

A thought I had a couple days ago. Every time I think about turning on anon asks for an extended period of time, I remember that it takes literally just one (1) person to critically wound me and fuck me up for days, and I wonder. . . Why antis do that. I am employed, 12-13 hours every day are spent at work or commuting, but hobby and hyperfixation gets me through the daily grind of capitalism. That anyone feels entitlted to attack me where I'm soft, to piss upon my own personal Palais Idéal and take pleasure in how much harder that makes life for me, is a terrifying prospect, so I will shelter my passion projects to keep them dry.