#autistic Dean Winchester

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autistic dean winchester

Generally, they were good about cleaning out the room. There was that one time in Key West when Dean had left the tin of salt next to the bed, and had insisted on turning the car around on Route 1 and heading back to retrieve it. Sam had asked why they couldn't just go to a supermarket and get another one-it was a pretty common household item, after all-but Dean had insisted that it was the principle of the thing. Which had been fine right up until the clerk asked why the two brothers had a big tin of salt in their hotel room, and Dean had gotten that wide-eyed look he got when somebody went off the script. With Sam watching and not even bothering to hide his grin, Dean had stammered for about half an hour before coming up with something about lactose intolerance. - Supernatural novel (Nevermore, by Keith R.A. DeCandido)

[platonic-soulmates-gencest]

autistic!Dean refusing to go anywhere without his safe person (Sam)

[gh0sted-exe]

they are gay. they are trans. they are autistic.

[justanangryduck]

Stimming stimming stimming

Dean is loud

Playing with his jewellery, listening to loud music, vocal stimms (humming, clicking his tounge, whistling etc), tapping his hands and his fingers and his knuckles on stuff all the time, rocking on his chair

Sam

Probably plays with his hair a lot, not consciously just tucking it behind his ears and ruffling it all the time and stuff like that. Definitely was one of those kids who would spin around and around in one spot for ages and make themselves dizzy to feel the inertia. PACING PACING PACING. Biting his lip and tounge and the inside of his cheek, rubbing his hands up and down his forearms or over his thighs to feel the fabric there.

Let those old men stim

[babyblue-mind]

team free will? more like. more like team autism. am i right

[m1zumono]

dean winchester and autism because this man is autistic and i will not accept otherwise:

his reaction to sam giving him the giant slinky at the end of 7x14 'plucky pennywhistle's magical menagerie'

actually physically stimming when he enters the bunker with sam in 15x14 'last holiday' and sees the christmas decorations

the boxing episode, 11x15 'beyond the mat', where dean spends the entire episode fanboying and (for lack of a better word) plays in the boxing ring

wearing the same thing (flannel, jeans, in earlier seasons the leather jacket) almost all of the time while not in disguise to work cases

eating the same thing (cheeseburger with extra onions or pie) at almost everywhere they go, as often as he can (about dean winchester and food, i could talk about that for hours he has so many issues with it and it's all john winchester's fault)

his ability to recite movies line for line, and his tendency to communicate almost entirely through references and movie quotes, and expecting people to understand what he means

about references, he makes jokes and references when it's not appropriate, he doesn't understand that something isn't appropriate in a situation where it isn't specifically pointed out to him, and he generally has a pretty messed up sense of empathy and inability to 'read the room'

‘you’re always calling me a geek, but you know every word to every led zeppelin song, backwards and forwards. you can discuss in detail every major rock drummer between ’67 and ’84… and you watch ‘jeopardy!’ every night.’ - directly quoted from sam winchester in 14x20 'moriah'

in 13x06 'tombstone' when they go into the motel and dean talks about the cowboys, identifying all of them and going into quite a bit of detail about a few of them, even though nobody asked him about it and he is absolutely infodumping. 'he really likes cowboys.' 'yes. yes, he does.'

his knowledge of cars, particularly baby, and how he takes her for a ride when he's sad because of the comfort she provides him. also about baby and comfort, the way he offers to let people drive baby when he realises that they're sad, thinking it'll make them feel better as she makes him happy and he doesn't understand how else to help

in 1x03 'dead in the water' he talks to lucas about how he didn't speak as a kid, he plays with the toy soldiers and it doesn't come across as playing with them to make lucas trust him, it actually comes across as him finding genuine enjoyment in it

in 1x15 'the benders' when he's talking to the kid who mentions godzilla, dean brightens immediately and goes off topic talking about his favourite godzilla film, and has to be reminded that he's working a case by sam

the entirety of 14x04 'mint condition', how dean gets to express his interests and be himself and how a lot of people have mentioned that he seems to be genuinely himself in that episode instead of the act he puts on

larping with charlie, no explanation needed

he shuts down when things go badly, often blasting music and ignoring everything and everyone around him

he always picks scissors when playing rock, paper, scissors, and it's actually something that comes up multiple times within the show - in 2x17 'heart', sam says, 'dean, always with the scissors,' and along the same lines, his excitement both times he actually wins the game

in 1x04 'phantom traveller', dean is terrified because of the plane and sam points out that he's humming metallica. he replies that it calms him down, and that just seems very autistic

[autistic-dean-winchester]

Dean winchester is autistic

Sam winchester is autistic

Their autism 100% conflicts with each other

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Autistic angel and his two equally but differently autistic brother boyfriends

[ricky-tiki-tah]

Anyone else notice that especially in the earlier seasons(1-3 specifically for this post), Sam is usually the one talking to the witnesses/authority figures. Doesn’t matter if Dean started the conversation/interrogation, Sam near always finishes them.

Not only that, but officers and others tend to direct their questions more to Sam than Dean. The question is why? In the early seasons like 1-3, Dean may be shorter, but Sam is still noticeably younger than his brother. Is there something about Sam that people trust him to be more mature or what?

On the opposite note, you will rarely see Sam talking to any kid, his area lying more with the teens and young adults. Dean is always talking to the kids, he values their opinions and wants them to feel safe no matter what. This is probably from raising Sam, but it’s also very him. (One example is Lucas in 1x03 Dead in the Water, another is Michael in 1x18 Something Wicked, and again with Ben in 3x02 The Kids Are All Right)

Now, I’m very much onboard with the “both Winchester brothers are autistic” and “ADHDean”, but my question is still, why would the authorities and older suspects talk to Sam instead of Dean? Is it because Sam is so good at masking? Is it because Dean is starting to let his childish side out more now that John isn’t there? Maybe it’s because due to Dean having been selectively mute, Sam had to speak for the both of them growing up and the habit stuck? Could it be because even though both boys are good looking, Sam is more traditionally handsome while Dean is a pretty face? Is there really an answer?

[always---wrong]

Every time I see a post about the autism coding in Supernatural and Deans not mentioned I scream.

There is something so frustrating about autism traits being overlooked in characters because there not the 'typical' traits.

And I don't even mean that people overlook it on purpose. I just think that Cas's type of autism is so much more 'oh, it's autism'. Even nuerotypical viewers probably noticed it. However, Dean's autism coding is noticable but it also has a layer of masking and fake ultra masculinity. (Anyone ever notice how Sam is actually the one who's more traditionally masculine or is that just me?) It seems to me that because a character sometimes masks, people ignore the blatant traits.

Or they find him hot and no one can admit that the white guy that they find attractive can possibly be autistic.

[sirlancenotalot]

castiel | dean | sam | jack

[lukas-dusk]

Tropes I love with Dean winchester

[worldrusher]

click click shhhk: the jerk that stims

a/n: like click clack moo. the cows that type..(my friend came up with the name). anyways i saw the gif above on twitter and i was like wow...hes stimming...so i wrote this in like 5 minutes smiley face. circa s1 when they were HAPPY!! even if the gif isn't from then (iirc)..

click. click.

...

shhhk.

..?

click. click. click.

sam glanced over. dean paid no attention to him, still staring out the window, waiting for any possible sign that they needed book it towards the house they were watching. he was still.

click. shhhk.

"hey. hey, dean?"

he didn't budge, leaning closer to the window and squinting. there was a slight movement in the house's window, then nothing.

cllliiick.

sam nudged his shoulder. dean glanced over with a peeved look.

"what?"

"you're messing with your gun again. it's, annoying."

dean glanced down at his gun with a semi-surprised look.

"damn. didn't even realise."

shhhk.

"dude."

a loud crash outside drew their attention away from the situation at hand, bringing them out of the car and sprinting towards the house.

[fanonsupremecy]

Dean: Kissing my boyfriend and eating chips is just 'tism tings.

Cas: *smiling like Dean isn't kissing him while eating chips* or high tings...

Sam: How high ARE you?

Dean: How high are YOU?

Sam: Considering that I don't smoke? Not at all. But YOU, my dear brother, are a LOADED baked potato.

Dean: MAYYYBEE but at least I taste good.

Sam: I am Done you are Too high to have a sane conversation.

Dean: PFFT no such thing as too high! You're just jealous you're not as pretty as me.

Sam: that has nothing to do with anything bro. Im gonna go hang with Eileen now. Bye Mr Potato.

Dean: GOOD. more chips with MY boyfriend.

[justanangryduck]

Autistic / ADHD dean is just so important okay.

He masks so hard all the time always. He listens to the same 10 songs over and over again. He sees patterns and makes connections between information from all different places. He's moving and taping and doing little things with his hands. He has special interests in pop culture and westerns and old cars. He gets distracted and he hates sitting still. He goes non-verbal and he doesn't like change. He's neurodivergent and we love him I'm sorry I don't make the rules.