#adhd dirk gently headcanon

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AuDHD traits Dirk Gently Displays - S1E5: Very Erectus

- You may follow the google docs file I'm writing everything down in, also! If you haven't read them yet, links to the first four episodes:

S1E1 - Horizons / S1E2 - Lost and Found / S1E3 - Rogue Wall Enthusiasts / S1E4 - Watkin

Click read more to read the analysis of the fifth episode! Tagging: @clockworkcheetah @urlocallesbiab @generalized-incompetence @amber-angel @goatygoat @frenchfriedgiraffe

> In the scene in the dinner, after they start driving to go look for the 'treasure' based on the map, Todd starts insisting that Dirk has a power and he immediately deflects and shuts down, avoiding eye contact completely, looking around. > The second Todd says "It's you. It's something about you", he goes "I'm not psychic, drop it." - of course this enters the parallel of the whole show being about the holistics having their ties to the universe in different ways, but I've had moments where people know I'm autistic and they start insisting on either me being actually "normal" and it being a superpower, trying to single me or sus me out, and I react similarly to Dirk in this scene > "No!! We are having this conversation", discomfort, "Here, let's do an experiment" EXTREME discomfort - sometimes you're just existing and people want a) an explanation of your whole life and b) for you to prove to be what you say you are > "Look, I can't explain it, ok? I learned a long time ago things don't always make sense the way people want them to" - AuDhd to its barest components– > "You're going to have to accept that too. To. Too. To. Too? Two?" - very common to lose a bit of sense of words both in autism (overwhelmed) and plus ADHD having the common comorbidity of dyslexia 

> Trading the Corvette for the beat down jeep, and when Todd goes "???" he says "It's just a rental!" - he makes decisions and when people express concern assumes it's based on something else, even if it doesn't make sense. So he just says it. I usually know for a fact I won't figure out what they're ACTUALLY judging me for - general inaptitude to read between the lines or figure out social situations 

> Martin tells Amanda, about Dirk, "He's got gourmet panic!" - he just like us, he just like us fr 

> "Don't start with the zen master thing, ok? It worked out a lot better before I figured out you were a mess, too" - people tend to assume we're more put together than they are because we showcase emotions differently 

> When Todd says he's gonna give up on digging, he just goes "Wouldn't this be just one more thing you walked away from, though" - not the sincerautistic murder-- Sometimes I also blurt out things and accidentally read people to filth without fully realizing. 

> He puts clues together and recognizes patterns then blurts it out, classic AuDHD style

 > "(...) I think life is like that too, just an endless series of room with puzzles and eventually one of them kills you" / "That's dark and depressing" - my fellow AuDHD ambassador just drops bombs and doesn't even realize 

> "What is it?" / "A thing" - stating the obvious shouldn't be as funny as it is but it never gets old 

> "You brought the cat?" / "Of course I did" - just. Very cute honestly but also, I too make decisions without fully realizing what it would entail, like bringing a kitten around with you while digging shit up 

> Todd starts venting to him and he's like. Confused - but yet again he tries his very best to support him, saying "When I look behind me, I can't see ahead of me" / "Are you saying dwelling on my past is holding me back?" / "No. I mean I literally can't see what's back there when I'm looking forward" - general literal thinking

> "You know what I was thinking about? When I was staring down at the barrel of that gun?" "...bullets?" - literal thinking part 321 electric boogaloo

> “Everything is connected. But only I can see it… I’m not.. Psychic. But I am something” yeah. Autistic-

> “The hunches don’t help me, ever” - we tend to figure stuff out based on our general understanding of them, trying to consciously clock things others don’t have to think twice about, but the same is true in reverse, where things that may seem impossible for neurotypicals to figure out, we see immediately. Although we may know these things, we’re usually not taken seriously enough or don’t have the bandwidth to actually prevent some things from happening to us or around us.

> “I don’t have any friends, I am always surrounded by bizarre and frightening states of disaster, and I am always alone” - sad part hours, but it’s unfortunately true: we’re always overwhelmed, surrounded by input we can’t filter out, and it is extremely hard to make and maintain friends. But Dirk has found his people and so will all of us, eventually!!

> When Todd says “And Dirk? I am your friend.” - immediate hope, bright red eyes, furrowed eyebrows, then IMMEDIATELY he schools his expression out to nonchalant, so yet again his big reactions don’t push people around him away (both true for Dirk and in our general experience, having had to tone yourself down your whole life does NUMBERS on you)

[urlocallesbiab]

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#noooooo too cute

#whenever Dirk and Todd are next to each other #and Tina's in the room she goes up to them and picks up the pendants and starts clicking them together

#the conversation is still happening

#at this point Todd just rolls his eyes and Dirk has never minded

canon: dirk buys him and todd one of those magnetic best friend necklaces that join together and every so often he’ll walk up to him and just, click

[l3o-lion]

too little / too much

give me a sign

say please and thanks

even a leaf may drown in the wild currents of the stream of creation, much like how wax may melt when Icarus follows his heart

(four versions bc im indecisive as shit hh)

chosen name : Dirk Gently

birth name : Svlad Cjelli

codename : Project Icarus

something something -blackwing subjects as a trans allegory- something

(a buncha rambles under the cut)

But also very possibly queer, disabled, neurodivergent (and i don't just mean that as in autism & adhd), mentally ill, etc (maybe intersex but that's not really my place to decide)- Anything that isn't "standard" can be projected as a possible reading of the blackwing subjects, especially things that people are often persecuted, villainised or discriminated against for being. Dirk and the rest of em are all of course most commonly read simply as who and what they are, though, because there is plenty of value and relatability in that.

........Another unrelated tangent: Dirk absolutely has darkish red hair in my head, even though that doesn't look to be his hair colour for most of the show- i think i've seen others talk about his mysterious hair colour too. And i have read a fic where he had "mood ring" hair, ive loved that sorta stuff for years (when i was into beetlejuice the musical i always drew beej with hair that changed colour depending on mood <3<3) so that's definitely a fantastic headcanon to me-

the text in the fourth image says icarus in case that wasn't clear btw!

aaaaand last but not least !! bonus wip picture that can stand on it's own imo :>

Pleaseeee plspls tell me what you think! And please expand on the (admittedly vague) ideas in this post if you come up with anything!!

[dingoskidneys]

sending you an ask back, any dirk gently headcanons?

OH BOY DO I

The first thing that struck me when reading Tea-Time was adhd, he's absolutely drenched in it. His house is messy, he sleeps in and completely forgets something important, he can feel the dread of having forgotten something but not knowing what it is,, it really hit close to home for me who was in a bad mental spot with the adhd/college relationship at the time. Also the intense guilt, a bunch of little things adding up to become overwhelming, the fact that being late was a major and devastating plot point, procrastinating opening the envelope out of dread and not even realizing he was procrastinating, THE FUCKING REFRIGERATOR. Idk if I'm making any sense here but there's so much

This man is autistic. Most DNA characters read as autistic to me admittedly but like. The way he talks, the way he's just classically weird, infodumping at people, absurd outfit that he wears all the time, etc

I'll take any opportunity to say a character is trans but wow. The whole conversation with Reg (and encounter with Gilks) about his name. Easy. Also just the fact that he's so enthusiastic about changing it at all

He is short. Like shorter than 5'6" he just has those vibes to me

I could probably come up with more (especially if I reread since it's been a while, the books have kinda just been marinating in my brain) but those are the main ones!

[coreofgold]

Was that [OSRIC CHAU]? Oh no no, that was just [JACOB VOGEL], a [CANON CHARACTER] from [DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY]. They are [TWENTY-NINE] years old, use [HE/THEY], and [ARE] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long.

How long has your character been here Vogel has been here for a few days, close to a week

What is your character’s job They are a delinquent right now; Maybe a guitarist or rock singer.

Where has your character been pulled from in their fandom End of season 2

Has any magic affected your character It didn't affect them a lot. Just brought Vogel to D.C and away from his Rowdy family.

And any other information you might find useful for us and the other members to know!! Wiki Here Wiki 2 HereBirthday: Unknown Siblings: None Zodiac: Unknown Species: Human (psychic/energy vampire) Eye Color: Dark Brown Hair Color: Dark Brown/Black Scars: various ones Personality: manic, loyal, childish, rowdy, loud, chaotic, destructive Romantic Orientation: unsure Sexual Orientation: asexual

Headcanons ! Vogel is dyslexic; Words and sentences get mixed and matched and messed up in his head even before he was taken by Project Blackwing. Vogel was taken by Project Blackwing at 5 years old so they didn't have a formal education to begin with so he had to learn a lot of things from the others and even then he still doesn't know and is constantly learning. Probably has ADHD but is undiagnosed since the main focus of Project Blackwing was to experiment and test them. He doesn't remember much of his family; To them, the Rowdy 3, all 5 of them, are his family and that's all that matters Suffers nightmares from their time separated from the others and from Mr. Priest but refuses to mention it to others because they aren't their family

I am open to plots so please don’t hesitate to message me for plots and to know about his past!

[autistically-zoinked]

*sees a character I relate to on a personal level* they're autistic now

[casual-eumetazoa]

do you think it’s possible that Dirk is not psychic at all, not even a little bit, but just has a killer combination of autism and ADHD that makes him essentially unstoppable 

[dirkgentle]

seamworn replied to your photo: [ I love every single part of this description....

( this is literally the most apt description of adhd i have ever heard )

[ Oh my GOD. You made it so much better and more accurate. ]

[humandisastersquad]

autistic + adhd gay trans man dirk gently moodboard

[urfavehasadhd]

Your fave has ADHD: Vogel from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency!

[transsexualcoriolanus]

yes you are absolutely right none of them are cis or nt

reggie was my first trans hc because i've got a bit of a soft spot for him but also my name is luke?? hmm wonder what that's about

and obviously reggie and luke give off big adhd vibes but also flynn??

"i drank 7 energy drinks in an hour and spent all night making this speech about why you need to stay in the music programme" flynn??

"i thought of a name for your band while i was supposed to be doing french and then immediately registered it on every social media platform known to man" flynn??

flynn has adhd and that is the hill i will die on

what other shows do you watch??

YES also Willie definitely has adhd. Also the entire Molina family. Every time we see Carlos after Bright, he’s trying to find the ghosts, that is a hyperfixation. And Ray is always losing things and near the end of Edge of Great when Julie asks him about the cameras and he starts talking and you can tell from Flynn and Julie’s expressions that he’s going to talk for A While? Yeah. Also I refuse to believe that Julie is neurotypical after I Got The Music and Perfect Harmony. And we barely saw Rose, so while there’s no evidence that she has adhd, there’s also no evidence that she doesn’t.

My first gender headcanons were Luke (he is transmasc non binary) and Reggie (they are agender). At first the non binary Luke headcanon was just because the lighting in one scene made it look like his black, white and yellow bracelet was also purple and therefore the non binary flag, but now I’m super attached to that hc. Also Nick and Julie are trans and Flynn and Willie are non binary

At the moment I’m just watching jatp over and over, but I also really like The Umbrella Academy, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Bbc Merlin, and Bbc Ghosts. What about you?

[summery-captain]

This is gonna be a long one: a total of 18 posts following Dirk's actions, behaviours and phrases that are indicative of him being autistic and also kinetic (having ADHD). Disclaimer that I'm AuADHD and that's how/why I've come to analyse him like this, the devil works hard but my special interest in him and the show works harder

I'll divide it up by episode so it's a bit easier! I'll link the next ones here as I make them, let me know if you want me to tag you in the next ones. There won't be images, just descriptions of the general scenes. I'll make a post later on of the main scenes/moments that make me see him as AuADHD, if you see a "*" next to any of these it means it's going in the TL:DR post later.

S1E1 - "Horizons"

> The episode opens with Dirk being extremely off put by the phone ringing and he repeats himself when answering ("Awake, yes I'm awake, I've been awake"). He then realizes he's late and that sends him into panic. - Has trouble organizing and keeping track of time/significant dates and tasks

> In the murder scene at the hotel, right before he picks up the shark kitten his hands tremble slightly and he seems hesitant for a second to take it. - has to mentally prepare when touching a new/different texture, in this case the kitten's fur

> When Zimmerfield and Estevez are analysing the footage of the day the murder happened, Dirk is seen (in the gorilla mask) looking around as if lost/confused of his whereabouts, even if he's been told (by himself) where he needs to go/be. - Has trouble with directions and verbal instructions, gets lost easily

> *"Pfft, time! I laugh at the concept, I can spend a whole day without even trying" - time blindness/hyperfixation/"daydreaming"

> "How did you get in here?!" Todd says. "Through the window, obviously", he answers. Then, later in the same scene, Todd says "You can't just break into my apartment!", "Clearly I can, I just did" - takes questions/statements literally, answering exactly what is being asked/said

> When he gives his speech of interconnectedness Todd looks more confused and annoyed by the second, he doesn't want to hear any of it. Dirk doesn't seem to realize this and just goes on and on, taking Todd's initial silence as confirmation that he can keep talking, interrupts Todd every time he tries to answer/say anything - has trouble with social cues and with when/how to stop talking

> "No one watches the news, except for old people. And me- occasionally" - is immediatelly defensive of interests/habits that may seem odd to others

> "None of your business" Todd says when he tries to offer him a ride "You don't even know my business!!" - again, takes things literally. I also think he is fully aware that Todd doesn't mean that literally but feels compelled to answer nonetheless

> In these next scenes they're already at Amanda's. "You said you were gonna stay in the car." "I lied though." - is blunt/direct - "Did you see how I snuck up on you? I was trained as a ninja by the CIA- Sorry, that's a lie too", he looks pained and his eyes focus on a random point, he's clearly mentally scolding himself, he finds it hard to filter out thoughts before saying them out loud

> "What's wrong with you exactly?" - is blunt/direct and without much tact when talking to Amanda about pararibulitis

> "Is it THAT important that you're not to be identified as my friend that you felt the need to argue about it?" - he's hurt and needs specific clarifications for previous social interactions and demonstrates rejection sensitive dysphoria (panic/meltdown/overload due to perceived social rejection) when Todd keeps rejecting him every time he tries to connect with him. It's hard not to spiral, especially because he's been told by himself that Todd is his best friend. He knows it didn't happen overnight but he was so excited about the prospect that being met with a very different reality is really staggering for him)

> When watching Todd and Amanda jam, he daydreams, imagining himself jamming with them, interacting and belonging - it's hard for us to feel like we're part of a group/that we belong, so it's common for neurodivergent people to imagine ourselves in different scenarios being able to fully interact and integrate with our peers

> Later in the same scene when Amanda gets an attack, he immediately rushes over and is only stopped by Todd pushing him off from him and Amanda. His eyes go unfocused and they get red. - rejection sensitive dysphoria (although it's understandable why he was pushed off.

> Later, back at Todd's apartment, he goes on and on about past cases until Todd snaps, he has a hard time recognizing the social cues Todd is giving him. "A thing with Thor- he's not nearly as good looking as people say. Actually, it's kind of a funny story-", looks extremely pained when cut off too, it's hard to stop in our tracks when we start something.

> When the Rowdy 3 get into the apartment building he immediately tries to hide under a bed that is clearly far too small for him - lacks spatial awareness, having trouble with knowing wheter or not he fits somewhere before trying to do so

> "I'm a person or varied intuitions, I have a lot of feelings about a lot of things. They're rarely ever wrong, but rarely completely right" - he's highly sensitive. Of course this plays into the whole show's themes, this part specifically for him being holistic. In my view though, whether the writers and actor meant to or not, holisticness greatly mirrors/parallels neurodivergency, even Blackwing is shown to use similar "tactics" as ABA.

> Moving along, when the Rowdy 3 enter Todd's apartment, before they even actually use their powers on Dirk, the camera/sounds focuses greatly on how loud and chaotic everything is. Dirk immediately drops to the ground in a fetal position, trying to cover his eyes and ears, and shuts down due to the sensory overload.

> Later, Dorian enters the house pointing his gun at Dirk and and Todd, who questions him as to how they're gonna get out of this. "I'm very good at getting into situations, I have more trouble getting out of them" - I can't count how many times I got myself into a dangerous situation because I didn't notice the clues/atmosphere, or in relationships/social gatherings in general. It's hard parsing out what is and isn't safe, and even harder to get out of it when it finally clicks you're not safe.

> Later Todd and Dirk are having a discussion/fight after the police let's them go, and Todd questions him as to why he isn't more distraught due to what just happened. "I think it might bother me more later, when I'm less... Something" - everything is overwhelming, so it's common for autistic people to take much longer to fully process how we feel/how to react than neurotypicals. We mostly can only fully face/process stressfull situations when we're somewhere safe and quiet.

> Todd starts screaming about everything that is happening, and Dirk gets more overwhelmed by the second. He enters a brief ecolalia loop, going STOP, STOP, STOP, STOP!!

Second episode analysis

@clockworkcheetah @urlocallesbiab @amberangel @generalized-incompetence

[dirkgentlyyyy]

headcanon #1

dirk has adhd and anxiety - his hyperactive ramblings are partially a result of both - amanda buys him little fidgety trinkets she finds in random stores and he keeps them in his top drawer - he has a sensory aversion to damp clothes, even if it's just a spot, and todd has to run the dryer twice sometimes to stop him from complaining about it - calming phrases in the mirror ("this is real" "you're a real detective" "you have friends" "i'm not with them anymore") - he's secretly terrified of the dark ever since his blackwing cell and has extreme insomnia without a nightlight - hyperfocusing on a task to the point of exhaustion: AKA Todd Finds Dirk Asleep In The Middle Of 3 Jigsaw Puzzles - he suddenly remembers an important case detail in the middle of eating and wonders why he wakes up starving in the middle of the night

[lokis-knives]

MasterList

*All Y/N is described as Black. As a black woman, I was having trouble finding good fanfics with Black readers. You can change the descriptions to fit your own characteristics.*

Stranger Things:

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Screwed Part 1: https://www.tumblr.com/lokis-knives/698535943321370624/screwed-part-1

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Umbrella Academy:

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency:

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Lost Boys:

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Birds Vampires of a Feather Stay Together part 1: https://at.tumblr.com/lokis-knives/birds-vampires-of-a-feather-stay-together/72s1b5dlrrwu

Birds Vampires of a Feather Stay Together part 2:

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How the Lost Boys Would React to Having a S/O With ADHD:

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[thatfaerieprincess]

Dirk and/or Amanda

Dirk Gently headcanons:Realistic: ADHD express, also a great huggerFunny: is always the one in the conversation to bring up the 100 duck sized horses or 1 horse size duck debate…. also the sandwich alignment chart… (he is about total radical sandwich anarchy and would fight 100 duck sized horses but would try to befriend them first.)Angst: he has PTSD from Blackwing and it takes a while before he can be convinced by Todd and Farrah to see a therapist bc doctors of all forms remind him of BlackwingUnrealistic: Dirk Gently the tall gnome

Amanda Brotzman headcanons:Realistic: favorite fruit is nectarine. No that’s not based on anything, I’ve just been craving nectarines and thought “why not?” Funny: has the best comebacks to everything except when she doesn’tAngst: she was alone for so long and thought she was okay with it, but now that she has the Rowdies and knows what it is to really be cared for and appreciated, she hates being aloneUnrealistic: the only human in a pack of rowdy werewolves.

[charlieism]

dirk gently

is dirk being extremely gay even a headcanon or is it just canon

otHER than that though i hc he has a leather jacket of like,,, literally every colour ever. he has a collection. he could start his own leather jacket line. he loves them all so much (but the yellow one is his fav)

(also i like to imagine he has adhd tbh!)