#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)

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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]

AuADHD Traits in Dirk Gently - S1E3 - Rogue Walls Enthusiasts

Hold on thight, this is a much longer one!

S1E1: Horizons

S1E2: Lost and Found

- Farah looks around the “room” she was stuck in previously and looks around intently, then says: “Take me to the house” in a very serious tone. Dirk then looks at Todd and does a thumbs up very enthusiastically while smiling really widely, meanwhile Todd and Farah look very defeated - he has a hard time “reading the room” and reacting “appropriately” due to the misread of tone/situations

 - “I spoke to the police!” (in a tone indicating enthusiasm and importance), “What did they say?”, “...go away.” - trouble with intonation/expressing himself in a way that implies something else.

- “I gave the bad guys my number” “You gave them your number?” “In self defense!” - same as before, his tone indicates purpose to Farah and Todd, and then he explains what he meant and they’re confused. In the same scene, Rimmer’s number is saved as “bad gun man”, which is both funny but also very relatable, because of the hard time we have remembering things, it’s very common for us to save numbers as name + where we know the person from to facilitate identification

*- Farah says in a very stressed out tone, “Everything I own is there [Spring’s mansion], my clothes, my gun-”, giving examples of why it’s important to her to go back there. Dirk immediately replies: “You look good” smiling and in a reassuring tone, misreading Farah’s concern to be about her appearance (more obvious) VS what she means subtextually (her life is in the mansion)

- When Todd freaks out unexpectedly, Dirk gets very startled and looks from Todd to the way Farah went back and forth about four times very quickly - unexpected changes can be very confusing / hard to process 

*-  Right after that, Dirk and Todd have the following dialogue: “Wait a moment!” / “What?” / “Are you… mad at me?” - it’s incredibly hard to read other’s emotions, especially when in relation to us. Dirk takes a moment to check in to clear things up because he isn’t sure where Todd stands about him.

 Then, when Todd answers “Yes– No– I don’t know. I don’t know what I am at you”, Dirk reacts very positively, saying “Good” and patting Todd’s shoulder, immediately running away to Farah after “resolving” the situation and taking Todd’s confusion to be best than a very certain “I’m mad at you” - It can be reassuring to be told someone isn’t angry at us when reading other’s tone and intentions/reactions is so hard, especially from someone who means a lot to us.

  Not a Dirk scene, but something I find important to mention. In between Dirk scenes, we get to see a conversation between Col. Riggins and Friedkin where Riggins says: “Blackwing had one mission: to seek out, codify and collect individuals with sensory perceptive abilities beyond the normal human range”. Meanwhile, Dirk repeatedly states throughout the show and especially to B.W. agents that “This isn’t how it works, this isn’t how I work!” and they never ever take him seriously, believing themselves to know better than the subjects do about themselves and their abilities.

 With that in mind, I draw an important parallel between how Black Wing works and how the ableist medical community works, specially in the timeframe where Dirk would have been in when he was in being held by them - With blackwing being created in 1988, the general belief that Dirk is in his 30s, and Dirk being one of the original subjects, that places his captivity in the 80s-00s, being there from about age 5 until 12 years old and getting out in 2000, because with the show happening in 2016, and when Riggins confronts him at the Ridgley Dirk says: It’s been 16 years, that’s a general timeline. 

 TRIGGER WARNING FOR FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH: ABLEISM, THERAPY TO “CURE” US

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 All of this to say that the way Black Wing is shown to operate both in S1 and S2, with tests, general subhuman conditions, “exposure” therapy, electric shocks, cruel testing and impossible standards, I see a very big connection with how some facilities and programs conduct behavioral “therapy” towards autistics, now too but even more so in the timeframe Dirk was a subject originally. The similarities, albeit in a very sci-fi esque aesthetic so to speak, are clear between black wing’s “program” and ABA “therapies”/Experiments/”Research”.

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Continuing on, Farah and Dirk going to the Spring mansion:

- Dirk doesn’t swing his arms when he’s walking, very common in autistic people and neurodivergent people in general because of our commonly comorbid lack of motor skills + different center of balance from neurotypicals which means we don’t usually need to move our arms when walking to “balance out” our leg movements because we also tend to walk differently.

*- “You’ve never met him” / “Yes, he seems like someone I’ve never met” - Very funny line but also very relatable when you realize Dirk constantly makes “small talk” by stating the obvious.

- “Isn’t that… Interesting”, Says Spring’s lawyer, to which Dirk promptly replies: “I get that a lot” - I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told the exact same thing or similar stuff, whether neurotypicals consciously realize this or not they seem to pick up very quickly we’re not like them on a very fundamental basis and WILL give backhanded compliments such as saying we’re interesting or quirky or anything like that. It took me a WHILE to realize this is what was happening and that they usually never mean it in a positive way.

*- When Spring’s lawyer gives Farah the letter saying that Spring instructed him to only give it to Farah when in the presence of someone named Dirk Gently, he says “Well it’s lucky I’m here then!” in a very chipper tone.

 Then, when Farah is having a breakdown and tell him she didn’t think he was still in the room, he says “Why would I leave the room? All of the good stuff is happening in here!”, and only THEN does he pay closer attention to how Farah is and asks “Were you and Patrick… close?” - He has a really hard time “reading the room” as I’ve said, and specially in relation to things that he considers more “obvious” like the case he’s working on. 

 AND THEN, when Farah says she is a bunch of negative things, Dirk goes, tentatively, “No, no, listen, you’re only SOME of those things” and she reacts by letting out a scream and sitting down forcefully, and he becomes even more unsure of how to act, starts trembling and pats Farah’s shoulder and then pokes it, gives up and sits down next to her. - It’s very hard to comfort people when you have a hard time reading other’s emotions, and I think that although Dirk didn’t do a very good job on comforting Farah he did try his best in a confusing situation to him, and ended up helping her nonetheless, taking us to:

*- “I don’t know anything, ever. It’s really quite relaxing. It’s how I work, I..follow fate around. It’s how I found you.” - there is a LOT of freedom in accepting you’ll most likely never have the in’s and out’s of reading others and that you can really only try your best in navigating life without having all the pieces other’s seem to have access to.

- When Farah opens the envelope Spring left her Dirk YOINKS it from her, then when he reads the “You” says “This doesn’t look like you, he’s got the hair all wrong!” - very funny moment and also shows two traits: impulsivity and literal thinking.

*- When they’re trying to follow the map, he nervously follows Farah around in the most autistic way of walking ever, it’s so relatable it’s comical honestly, the slight tip toeing, swinging side to side, just !!! he’s just like us fr

*- Farah starts analyzing the wall and he goes on a rant trying to figure out what she’s doing, interpreting the way she’s acting very literally, “It’s a wall.. Did he enjoy walls? Did ever mention a LOVE for walls-” and immediately SCREAMS and jumps backwards when Farah makes a loud noise by breaking the fake wall down with the iron, trembling the whole time - sound seems to be one of his most intense sensory triggers.

*- “How… did you do that?” / “With my hand!” - He’s SO literal I love him

*- “Dirk? I’m starting to think you’re actually a pretty good detective” - his face goes, rapidly: happy, proud, he shakes his head, aloof, uncaring.   Dirk frequently schools his expressions out, trying to make the “correct” face in regards to the situation at hand, which shows two different things: he has a hard time figuring out right away which one is the “correct” expression AND he has been conditioned to think his initial reactions are always wrong/unnaceptable.

*- When Todd reaches Amanda after running to her house, he says “Dirk doesn’t know anything. In fact, the amount of things he doesn’t know are stupefying” - slightly ableist although it makes sense within context where Dirk knows a lot of things about “random” or seemingly (to others) unimportant stuff but has a hard time with “simple” (to others) concepts/things

- Autistic funny AND sarcastisc moment when Dirk goes “Oh.. is that why you’re here?” when Todd states that this is MY apartment.

- Amanda says, “I don’t go out much”, and Dirk says: “Me neither!” - it’s common for us to not really go out that much because going out can be very overwhelming in many many ways

- When he and Todd have the discussion on the hallway, he’s very direct and vulnerable with Todd, even if he doesn’t know him THAT well, saying “I want your help”, for example, instead of just hinting at it or dancing around the subject just because it’s a hard one - we’re often direct with our intentions/feelings

- As he goes downstairs after convincing Todd to help him and to get the everbulb from his car, he does a little celebration by jumping a bit and pumping his fists, which isn’t NECESSARILY a stim but could be read as one! - stim: from “stimulation”, when we do repetitive things based on the major five senses to express happiness and also regulate our emotions, like jumping or singing for example.

- When confronted by Riggins and Friedkin he has a ‘slight’ meltdown and after getting tackled holds onto the stairwell’s bars, shaking. - I do know it’s a common reaction given the situation but also fits pretty well with mine and other autistic people’s experience in regards to what our specific reactions to overwhelming situations can look like.

As always thank you for reading and let me know if you want to be tagged in future posts/When I make the masterpost after finishing all of the episodes! I took a long time from E2 to this one because I changed jobs and had a really hard time adapting but am now more stable and have a bit more of free time!

 Tagging: @clockworkcheetah @urlocallesbiab @generalized-incompetence @amber-angel @silverhardt @weiwuxiankinnie

[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

Screwed Part 2:

Miscellaneous:

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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:

Miscellaneous:

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

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Marko one-shots:

Paul one-shots:

David one-shots:

Dwayne one-shots:

Marvel:

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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!)