#autistic Zane

[slushie-and-skittles]

Ninjago headcannons!!

These headcannons mostly focus on the ninja's gender, sexuality, and disorders, I'll probably make a seperate post talking about their interests.

Lloyd is questioning their gender since they haven’t had much time to explore themself. They allow their peers to use he/him pronouns, but they prefer they/them pronouns (spoiler alert: Lloyd is nonbinary). Lloyd is demiromantic and demisexual; they rarely fall in love, and if they do, it’s only with someone very close. They have PTSD, OCD, BPD, and depression.

Zane is nonbinary; he likes to use he/they pronouns and doesn’t like being referred to as a man. He is pansexual and asexual. Zane’s father has autism, and he programmed Zane to have many traits similar to himself, which led to Zane having autism. Zane is sensitive to loud noises and doesn’t like being touched; he is trying to build different settings for his senses to turn off his hearing or feeling of touch when overstimulated. Zane also struggles with amnesia, due to his memory being lost multiple times and him subconsciously deleting traumatic experiences from their mind. Zane has trouble remembering basic information and recalling traumatic events from the past.

Jay is genderfluid; he is fine with any pronouns and doesn’t feel restricted by gender norms. He is bisexual. He has ADHD and generalized anxiety disorder, which he takes medication for.

Kai is transgender; he was a biological girl when he was younger and began transitioning at age 19, he uses he/him pronouns. He is bisexual. Kai suffers from bipolar 1, which he was diagnosed with and is now taking medication for.

Cole is transgender; he was a biological girl when he was younger and began transitioning at age 18, he uses he/him pronouns; he and Nya were the people to help Kai figure out he was trans. Cole is gay and suffers from PTSD and anxiety. 

Nya is Transmasculine and uses both she/her and he/him pronouns; she is not planning to transition biologically but makes an effort to look like a man if she feels like it. Nya is bisexual and has anger issues.

Pixel is biologically genderless, but she feels as if she is female. She doesn’t feel restricted to gender norms and uses she/her pronouns. She suffers from depression since she has a more challenging time feeling joy due to the way she was programmed. She is pansexual and asexual.

Wyldfyr doesn’t care about her gender; she hasn’t made an effort to assign herself a label, and she doesn’t care what other people call her. She is omnisexual and has ADHD and anger issues.

Sora is genderfluid and uses any pronouns; they are a lesbian, has autism, and suffers from depression.

Arin is cisgender; he uses he/him pronouns and doesn’t like being called a girl. He is aro/ace and suffers from anxiety, PTSD, and depression.

Geo hasn’t thought about his gender since he never felt restricted by gender norms, and he just allowed people to refer to him as whatever they liked. He believes he is genderfluid but hasn’t put too much thought into it since he doesn’t feel the need to. He is omnisexual and suffers from anxiety and OCD.

Garmadon believes they are cisgender but secretly feels more connected with being nonbinary. They have repressed these feelings for most of their life since they were scared of the dysphoria they experienced every time someone called them a man. They are bisexual, Garmadon’s Oni form has ASPD, and struggles to feel empathy for others. However, they have slowly learned how to be kind to others after the crystalized season.

Master Wu is cisgender and a straight ally; he finds nonbinary and trans people interesting since these terms didn’t exist when he was younger. Wu strives to understand his diverse students and wants to support them in any way he can. His students are happy to answer most of his questions about gender and sexuality. Wu suffers from depression.

Misako is cisgender and a straight ally; she is slightly uncomfortable with the idea of new genders and sexualities since she doesn’t know too much about people like this. She wouldn’t fully support people with different sexualities and genders until she learned that Wu’s students were, in fact, not straight, and she started to learn more about different sexualities and genders. She is still a little uncomfortable with the whole idea but doesn’t want to be hateful toward her peers for who they are, so she makes an active effort to be as supportive as possible. 

[cringelordofchaos]

jay and zane are autism 🤝 ADHD solidarity send tweet

[kachowblueninja]

I think Zane Julien is neurodivergent (head canon if you will).

Being a nindroid i know it doesnt make sense, but i like to think that his dad was autistic and gave him similar traits to himself.

Zane is often talked about as different or strange, but not necessarily in a bad way, he has some special interests (in cooking and robotics), he doesnt get a lot of jokes, sarcasm and doesnt pick up on some cues.

I think a lot of episodes either showcase how zane is either responsible, unique, dead, sad, smart, or a good fighter. "Ninjago confidential" shows him in light of being intelligent and having a big intrest for research and obsessing over a type of film, its his most human episode i have seen thus far, but he was not being very understood by pixal until she saw his point a view. Also, i just really like that episode.

Let me know your thoughts and headcanons

[camo-wolf]

I am again bringing up autistic Zane he gives off such energy

“How can a robot be autistic?!”

Well because Dr Julian was autistic and he wanted his son to relate to him so he gave him the characteristics of being autistic

[randomness227]

Zane demasking Zane demasking!!!

Zane falling deeper into the "I am a robot" characterization doesn't have to be the writing making him less human. Maybe it's actually Zane finally being allowed to fully embrace his true robotic nature. He has previously been very self conscious about fitting in, and puts on a human facade when he needs reassurance that he belongs, and his ability to act/look like a robot is a sign that he has more self confidence and is more comfortable expressing himself without worrying about if he's being too off putting.

[battry-acid]

@genesauce-art's and my autism combined when we were roommates so i drew his blorbo and my blorbo being friends ^^

[cable-salamdr]

Me deeply relating to Zane as a child 🤝 My nephew finding Jay the most relatable

Us seeing our neurodivergent traits represented through our favorite silly pajama men lego figures that we have watched since being young-ish kids

[yummyangst]

You guys ever think about how guilty Lloyd must've felt after Zane's first death? It was his destiny to destroy the Overlord; HIS, not Zane's, but he ended up being too weak and having to hand the responsibility of it over to his brother, someone who he could think of as a safe space, a role model, one of the only people that probably wasn't all that rude to him when he was a kid compared to Kai or Jay, and it all ended up in him having to watch Zane explode and what remained of him scattered everywhere. He must've felt like Zane's death was his fault. He had to have. I'm not normal about Lloyd tbh

[lucindasthighs]

insane how the 1st episode of Aphmau's year completely outsold the entirety of season 5

The pain. The emotions. The RAWNESS of it all.

Everyone repressing their trauma because "she had it worse". Gar and Zane being truly brothers for the first time. THE FUCKING BANDANA. Nana's extreme emotional intelligence being used outside of a joke. Zane's PTSD around what happened- what he had to see his best friend suffer through- what he suffered through. Him actually being vulnerable enough to not push away Nana when she comforts him.

The memories a house can hold. The feelings it echoes. The bittersweet agony of being surrounded by the intense love of someone who isn't there.

Also dante and laurance actually existing

[moth-p]

I am so normal about Zane guys I am a normal person who likes Zane a normal amount guys you have to belive me guys I am so very normal so normal about Zane

[legosreallyarekissable]

WU ABUSING HIS STUDENTS CANON /J

[iridiss]

something something about autism masking and how it relates to Mystreet Garroth’s character development. something about how Mystreet Aphmau “Has Never Masked Her Chaotic Audhd Once In Her Life” McGee influences Garroth to crawl out of his posh boy shell and goof off and run wild

[legokingfisher]

I’m beginning to make the scuttling compilation and I can’t get over this because not only is Wu scuttling, Zane is just making a Noise here. Love him

(For context: the scuttling compilation is just gonna be moments where the walking or running animations are sped up to what I deem a comical degree, which I’m calling scuttling)

[ur-fav-is-autistic]

zane julien from ninjago! It felt special to see a hero who didn’t know what he did to upset people or why people laughed at him. Made small me feel so seen.

Zane Julien from Ninjago is Autistic!

[hiddensneker]

One thing I will never understand about ninjago is why do so many people fucking despise Zane for no reason

Like don’t get me wrong zane has done enough things to warrant a few people disliking him (him trying to steal Kai’s body and it being implied that did traumatize him or him being the ice emperor and freezing akitas people)

But whenever we see a character who hates Zane we literally get no context for it. They just woke up one day and decided to go “yeah fuck this guy in particular”

[nyaskitten]

The most unrealistic part of s1e2 of the og series to little me was how Zane INSTANTLY forgave all the ninja for shouting at him and blaming him after the constant "nah this fucker is weird man" shit like little me thought "nah me personally I'd run away and never look back I'd actually cry."