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bleue-flora Ā· 5 months ago
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Write the autitic c!dream essayšŸ™šŸ™
Why I think c!Dream is Autistic - Part 1
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[Part 1] - [Part 2] - [Part 3]
Welpā€¦ I guess while on the topic of neurodivergence now is as good as time as any to do this. So, at long lastā€¦
Since every version of this essay ended up way too long Iā€™m going to break it into 3 parts, and I'm going to make more generalized statements for the sake of brevity. So, if there are things about this or autism in general you would like more clarification on or know more about, my asks are always open (though I do ask that you please wait to flood my inbox until after youā€™ve read all parts). I would also like to add that for the same reason of length, I am not going to go in depth on all of the facets of autism and diagnosing it. I am not a psychologist, and this essay is not about defining autism and going into full depth about what it is, but about the specific aspects of Dream and the dsmp that I think point to autism, based on what I know and more importantly my experiences as an autistic person. Having said that, just so we are on the same page - Autism means that our brains are literally structured differently (also known as neurodivergent), which means we think differently and process the world differently, it does not make us inferior or broken or less than larger society (neurotypicals), it only means we are human beings who are wired differently.
Now, for part 1 Iā€™m going to briefly go into the traits Dream has that I think point to autism, keeping in mind that this is not necessarily all inclusive, these are not necessarily autism exclusive, and some of these can be effected with masking and personal growth.Ā 
Highly obsessive - in general and for specific interest, to the point of not taking care of oneself, like forgetting to sleep, eat, shower, or just not caring enough to do so.Ā 
Strong willed, determined and dedicated - not going to give up easily, willing to stay up training or farming for long hours or put in the work especially for our obsession. Our priorities arenā€™t always productive, but we are not ones for laziness.
Isolated - outcast, odd ball out, set apart, on the outskirts, loner, alone even if surrounded by people.
Highly intelligent - smart, clever, big brained, skilled, knowledgeable to the point of ground breaking (ex: Einstein, Elon Musk, Michelangelo, Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinciā€¦etc)
Trouble with emotions and feelings - from recognizing them, processing them, letting ourselves experience them, understanding them, leading us to often then lash out, explode, or have a meltdown.
All about the facts and truth - sometimes to an abrasive and candid point where it can become more important than how people feel or the main point.
Logical mindset - making decisions based on logic and strategy rather than on emotions to the point of struggling to understand others when they follow no such logic
ā€œBlack and Whiteā€ thinking - right and wrong, good or bad, yes or no, on or off, love it or hate it, friend or foe. Everything is in extremes.
Rule follower, one to fight for justice and for others - we are stubborn and in our strong conviction we are out against injustice and misinformation, fairness and what is right and true is imperative.Ā 
Unable to forgive and forget - hard to let things go. Often have good memories and are able to remember things with the same detail as if it were happening again and not years ago. It doesnā€™t really fade with time and that makes us easily hold grudges, and hold things and behavior against people.
Resistant to change -Ā  doesnā€™t matter how big or small nor whether itā€™s good or bad, we are enemies of change. We like to understand so uncertainty and new things are often disagreeable.
Able to recognize patterns - able to see the full picture, see history repeating itself and peopleā€™s behavioral tendencies, which makes us good at scheming and masterminding. We hate change so we want to predict things to avoid being surprised.Ā 
Trouble articulating our point - stuttering and stumbling over our words, because our brains are moving too fast for our mouth to keep up and itā€™s hard to explain ourselves because our brain works differently. (weā€™ll talk about this more in part 2)
Struggle with body language? - I mean itā€™s hard to say given the Minecraft format, but to me wearing a mask could be to avoid having to make eye contact (which I hate) and appropriate facial expressions and stuff like that, which are pretty important in diagnosis. So while some headcanon that Dream wears a mask because he's too expressive and doesn't like being exposed I actually think it might be the opposite and saves him a lot of effort and brain power to not have to worry about his facial expression. :)
Stimming - (yes an ADHD thing but also an autistic thing and it's very common for someone to be both - like me ;D) vocally and physically often when more stressed, again hard to say for a Minecraft man, but I see him constantly moving like pacing the cell or jumping around and stuff as stimming and he does vocally stim on occasion as well.
Or in other words - Reasons I think c!Dream is autistic:
C!Dream = me, me = autistic -> c!Dream = autisticā€¦ boom, shortest essay ever XD lol jkĀ 
But seriously it is a major reason. I read a tumblr c!Dream character analysis (don't remember who's) back before I even joined tumblr and related soo much, which is pretty concerning when you relate to a villain - because like wait does that make me a psychopath? but I have empathy and I care and I'm out to hurt people so why would I relate so much? And that's when I realized I think it is because heā€™s autistic like me so we think a like... I mean seriously the similarities are scarily uncanny down to things that have happened to me in real lifeā€¦
Anyways, thank you for reading. I hope I made sense and got the idea across even by not going into super detail on all the points.
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dsmp-lainey Ā· 2 months ago
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adore the concept of calling DSMP a modern folk tale because it truly is
it has shifted and changed and grown beyond what it originally was and itā€™s even more beautiful for that. thereā€™s very little that is considered the exact correct story, itā€™s more like many versions that can all somehow be simultaneously true.
lots of the content is lost to time or difficult to find but the story lives on despite that because of the love people have for it. for the way we are willing to pass on what we know and our own interpretations of it. for the preservation that so many have put into not letting it fade away forever. for the way many have allowed it to inspire their own creations going forward.
just like mythology or folk lore you donā€™t have to know every tiny detail or every version or even what exactly was said by every person to understand who these characters are and what they mean to you.
dsmp as a story is about love and loss and power and comedy and tragedy, just like any other great story, and as long as someone cares enough to speak of it, the story will never fully die.
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barzfrommarz Ā· 2 months ago
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autistic c!wilbur tidbits
-His face was always blank unreadable, so during lmanburg he started to force facial expressions and he kept it up until he was revived, he tries to but he finds it way more exhausting than it used to be so he doesnā€™t try as hard
-Dino arms especially after revival, unless heā€™s trying to be presentable his arms are always in that position
-Hates velvet, touched technos cape once and physically recoiled (me fr)
-visual stims are his go to for subtly. He still has a liquid timer from when fundy was a kid (like the ones you use to time teeth brushing for kids, could also be one of those sand timers)
-Unreadable ass tone especially after revival. He canā€™t seem to fix it like he did back in lmanburg
-Masking is 10x more exhausting. He can barley keep up with it and he has meltdowns/shutdowns way more often
-Way more appreciative of animals since he feels he can relate to them. Specifically foxes, birds and wolves
-Self regulates with song writing, guitar playing, art (most mediums), crocheting, knitting, reading and writing. Itā€™s what keeps him going sometimes
-Listens to music really loudly but hates most loud noises
-Hates going into las nevadas when itā€™s super busy. Always tries to avoid the noises and crowds so he always visiting c!q at odd times
thatā€™s it shoutout to autistic c!wilbur
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dreamystarsagedre Ā· 14 days ago
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Revivebur age regression board šŸ§øšŸ¦‡
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nekolikedacat Ā· 5 months ago
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its almost 2am and i suddenly started grieving how underdeveloped cfundys phropecy gift was
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anxiouslyextroverted Ā· 5 months ago
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do you have any dsmp neurodivergent headcanons? I have many
YES! thank you for asking!! :D
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these are how i personally view the characters + whats canonically stated and I was debating to myself for an hour whether c!Tommy should go in alexithymia or not
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Techno has the nastiest resting bitch face you will ever see. He constantly looks like he's furious at something.
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ashbeanss Ā· 4 months ago
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idk if itā€™s just me but itā€™s really interesting to watch how the fandomā€™s feelings about c!dapduo have changed over time. back in 2021 youā€™d be crucified for even thinking about them romantically because they ā€˜had a father and son relationshipā€™.
cheers to this fandom being less violently ableist, letā€™s keep it that way.
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rouge-fauna Ā· 3 months ago
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Some people think that your take on c!Tommy having aspd is dehumanizing and/or stigmatizing aspd because you don't like c!Tommy and therefore are biased and this take is based on hating him or seeing him as pure evil or something. How do you comment on that?
[essay on c!Tommy having ASPD]
Well my initial thought, is - say it to my face or don't say it at all ;P... like I feel like I try to create a safe space to have discussions, like if you disagree with me that's fine, let's talk about it. I'd love to understand why. I wanna know your reasons, I wanna see your evidence, and maybe neither of us change our opinions but maybe we gained some insight or at least understand where the other is coming from more by the end.
Besides that... First I would like to say, I never claimed to be unbiased. In fact I've written multiple essays on the topic of bias and how we all have inherent bias in the dsmp and why that might be. I've even talked about how I am biased and the reasons why that might be. As well as how our inherent bias makes it sometimes hard to have good analysis or discussion.
Secondly, while I do dislike c!Tommy in the same way I also dislike c!Quackity and c!Wilbur, I don't think I have ever reduced them to pure evil or dehumanized them or at least I have not intended to do so. They are very complicated characters, who are people and I hope that while I have talked about them not having empathy, I haven't reduced them to just evil. Especially in regards to Tommy, who I have somehow talked a lot about, I feel like I have covered a lot of other facets of him then just noting him as a sociopath or having ASPD (Antisocial Personality Disorder). In addition, for Tommy I have used sociopathy to note how his behavior isn't inherently malicious. I don't think he is trying to just go out and hurt people, but instead I think he does things without the consideration for other people because he lacks empathy. (Besides c!Quackity's confessed sadism) I don't think there are really any characters in the dsmp out to just hurt people on purpose, for the sake of hurting them. I think instead, some characters seem to do things for their own benefit and themselves without any thoughts for other people and any remorse for the hurt they cause. This does not make them any less of a person, but also certainly isn't going to pull any sympathy from me if they themselves don't have any...
Anyways, now about ASPD, I may be far from an expert and certainly don't personally struggle with it. However, I did have conversations about it with three different therapists including my grandfather who worked with people who needed someone bilingual, my sister in law who works a lot with couples and people recovering from substance abuse, and my own well accomplished therapist. Also, in addition to doing my own research looking at reputable sources, my best friend has a younger brother with ASPD. So, I have tried to be knowledgable as I can before talking about it, though it is also a highly complicated diagnosis process that is not agreed upon across the board of psychologists, with many having varying opinions on the matter. Not only with there not being a lot of treatment options, but also a struggle of how to diagnose someone as not having empathy if you are not in their head.
ASPD is very complicated, something I think I have tried to highlight. So much so, that from what I have gathered more recently, it has been confused with other diagnosis such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Something I actually talked about in my essays about why I think c!dream is autistic [post]. Because for a long time when I was younger, I thought I was a sociopath, but as it turns out I do have empathy it just looks a little different than neurotypical's. And I almost wonder, even though it's not my place or area of knowledge to even say so, if these people coming forward talking about how ASPD and sociopathy can be so dehumanized or stigmatized, if they perhaps might actually have a different diagnosis, because the way I understand it they generally shouldn't care about what other people think of them anyways. And since I came across somebody recently bringing up a diagnosis that isn't even a thing recognized by psychologist [post], I am beginning to wonder how warped the Internet is making our perception of mental illness and diagnosis...
Finally, I would like to also just add, that ASPD is a personality disorder, which as far as I understand it, means it is describing patterns of an individual's thinking and specifically behavior. Therefore it doesn't seem unreasonable or stigmatizing to me to take a character, not a real life person, and the actions that happened in canon and classify them as falling into the pattern of sociopathy/psychopathy/ASPD. Not to say the character then represents ASPD or is what it always looks like, but just that it fits them and helps explain why they did what they did...
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cyburnya Ā· 1 year ago
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DAPDUO SWEEP!!! CONGRATS TO DAPDUO!!!
it's a sweep across the board and against all odds, autism wins. go team!
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our-rewritten-symphony Ā· 4 months ago
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Name: Dream Wastaken
Age: 18 at the start of the server, 34 at the end
Height: 6'3
Origin: [Redacted]
Description:
At the start of it all, Dream was new to the admin powers he had been granted. Young, Naive, And wide eyed about the worlds he would soon come to despise. He started these worlds as a test, to see what he was capable of. And invited his friends to come along for the ride. Then... Tommy. The Loud, brash, innocent child he was. At first Dream tried with him. Tried to be kind, as the then 10 year old was freshly out of his home world, his older brother Wilbur having reached out to him to ask to be housed. But the child was so... loud An overwhelming noise that drove Dream further and furhter into rage, into blinding anger and hatered. Dream blamed every issue within the server on Tommy, why?
Because Tommy, unknowingly, disabled him. He was born without a normal humans sight, only seeing darkness and, what best can be described, as the glowing affect around players. His hearing, as sensitive as it was, was a massive assist to him, as it would with echo-location. Tommy damaged his sensors, bad, and its left him now both blind, and hard of hearing. He harbors massive amounts of anger towards the child.
Dream grew up, from his naive self. Kindness does not win wars. Kindness does not get others to listen. Brutality, ruthlessness does. Everyone wanted to paint the man making the rules the villain, and so thats what be became. Obcessed with making Tommy pay for his newfound disability, obsessed with gaining back the control he lost the second Innit stepped foot onto his server.
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bleue-flora Ā· 4 months ago
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Why I think c!Dream is Autistic - Part 2
[Part 1] - [Part 2] - [Part 3]
If you havenā€™t read part 1 (eventhough I did try and write these as like separate things) I do recommend you go do that...
Did you do it? Hi hello, welcome back. :) Okay, now having gone over general traits, letā€™s talk more about the second part of my original statement [post]: ā€œc!Dream is autistic and the consequential misunderstanding and miscommunication is a root of all the problems and conflictsā€ which I have covered a bit already [here].
So, because we think differently, communication and social interaction is often at the heart of a lot of our struggles (after my diagnosis at 20 I realized just how many of the conflicts in my past came down to this). Me and my therapist like to make the comparison that because autistic peopleā€™s brains are structured differently it is as if we are speaking a different language and as a result it ends with things being misinterpreted. Because as we all can recognize, when a language isnā€™t someoneā€™s first, there are times when things donā€™t come across properly. Both because of perhaps a lack of words, different slang, tone, cultureā€¦ etc. When you donā€™t take translation into consideration, it leads to miscommunication and misunderstanding as a lot of poor assumptions are made and conflict is often the result, especially because our inclination is to think the worst of people. [funnily enough hereā€™s a great example between some anons about translation and communication 1 -> 2 -> 3]
As such, while autistic people have issues communicating with neurotypicals, we often donā€™t have issues communicating with each other - we speak the same language. So, it isnā€™t that we are any worse at communication in general than everyone else (in other words Dream is not the sole one to blame here), itā€™s that we are struggle to communicate with the neurotypical like we are speaking two different languages without even realizing it, so of course we struggle to understand each other.Ā 
I think (hopefully lol) we can all agree that the root of the dsmp conflict is miscommunication and not understanding each other. But the thing is, miscommunication in the standard sense, in our day to day life or in the climax of a romantic comedy is about the absence of communicating, like Quackity not talking to his fiances. It is to have information, an opinion, view or assumption that goes unsaid and then leads to struggle just because it was never talked out. However, in Dreamā€™s case it isnā€™t that he doesnā€™t talk it out or not share his side of the story, because he does. He does a lot, he does communicate, how else could Dream apologists understand him even before the finale without his own pov detailing his thoughts.Ā 
He does talk about it but his autistic mind is using logic and facts against an emotional response leading to him being unheard. At the end of the day, it doesnā€™t matter whether tyrant is the right word, they are just expressing their feelings of being controlled by a larger power, but Dream is too focused on pulling out the literal definition and the facts to see the real issue at hand - that they feel controlled and overshadowed by him. So they think Dream doesnā€™t care, and Dream thinks their points don't matter because their facts were wrong and no understanding is reached. Dream can use logic all day - Why would someone not want to escape a prison they were being tortured in? Why would someone make a prison and then plan on putting someone in an unfortified 1x1 hole in the wall? How can I be the tyrant when Eret is literally the king? How can I steal the discs if they were literally given to me after a fair duel? - but against people just spewing words out of anger, hurt, feelings of abandonment it isnā€™t going to make a difference.
Perhaps one of the most notable and tragic examples of this is Georgeā€™s dethronement, in the aftermath of Technoā€™s attack and the Spirit speech, where Dream meets Sapnapā€™s and Georgeā€™s emotions with logic and facts.Ā  (See [here] for full transcript, the following is trimmed down from two different vids)
[18:54] George: ā€œWhyā€”why do you think- why do you think I shouldnā€™t be king anymore?ā€ Dream: ā€œI think thatā€¦ you would be safer if you were not, right?ā€
[23:56] Dream: ā€œYouā€™ll just be targeted if youā€™re the king, and you wanna be able to like, get revenge on Tommy and stuff, right? So, we can like work toā€”We can work together. Me and you.ā€ George: ā€œHm. Sounds like youā€™re sugar-coating it.ā€ Dream: ā€œNo, nonoā€”I mean, itā€™s a little bit sugar-coated, but itā€™s also likeā€¦ itā€™s just better because you donā€™t get attacked by everyone, and you can do whatever you want without having to worry...ā€
[25:37] Sapnap: ā€œGeorge, Dream said he didnā€™t care about anything on this SMP whichā€¦ That just means he doesnā€™t care about us.ā€ Dream: ā€œOkay, Iā€™ll have you say, I wasā€”Okay, I wasnā€™tā€”I wasnā€™tā€”I didnā€™t actually mean I donā€™t care about anything.ā€ George: ā€œWhy did you say it then?ā€ Sapnap: ā€œYeah?ā€ Dream: ā€œListen, listen! The reason Iā€™m even saying George should step down as king is because I care about him. Because Iā€”Heā€™s been getting attacked, and I care about him, and I donā€™t want him to get attacked.ā€
[27:28] Dream: ā€œWhat did you do as king? Like you didnā€™t do anything as king like decree or anything...ā€ George: ā€œIā€™ve been the best king this server has ever had!ā€ Dream: ā€œYeah, I agree. I agree. But youā€™ve also been the least safe king because you just get attacked all the time because people donā€™t like me. And therefore, they donā€™t like you because youā€™re behind me, and youā€™re my friend.ā€ Eret: ā€œBy association.ā€ Dream: ā€œYeah. By association. So, like thatā€™s the same reason, like, Sapnapā€™s got into some, you know, drama and stuff too, butā€¦ā€ā€”ā€œSap, stop pointing the damn bow at me.ā€ George: ā€œJust sayā€”Just say you hate me.ā€ Sapnap: ā€œYeah, just say it.ā€ Dream: ā€œGeorge! *laughs in disbelief* George, I donā€™tā€”Listen to me. I care about you. Thatā€™s the reason I donā€™t want you to be the king.ā€ Sapnap: ā€œFirstā€”firstā€”Listen to this. First, he says he doesnā€™t care about us, and now heā€™s demoting you as king.ā€
In this conversation over and over he reiterates how he cares and is trying to keep them safe from being targeted and attacked and yet after everything is said and done, his friends somehow leave that conversation thinking he doesnā€™t care about them. Why? Because what Sapnap really needed was validation for him feeling hurt, but instead Dream kept reasoning with his emotions with the concrete actions, details and facts, essentially saying that what he feels doesnā€™t matter because itā€™s not truth, which was never going to get through to them. They are listening but they arenā€™t hearing eachother, both think they have made their point and the other side has poor intentions for not reacting appropriately.Ā 
It took Tommy to literally experience Dreamā€™s point of view to understand him and realize his intentions werenā€™t inherently malicious. Because only then could he shatter his assumptions and misconceptions about intention and motivation. Only then did he know which questions to ask Dream for him to get Dream to answer in a way that made sense to him. Before Tommy experiences Dreamā€™s pov in limbo and after, Dreamā€™s arguments and his answers for why donā€™t really change, he talks about peace and family so many different times, but itā€™s only after Tommy goes into his head that heā€™s able to actually translate what Dream was saying so he can hear him, understand him, see him.
Itā€™s the assumption that the way you understand someone is what they meant to say that causes these issues in communication. Me missing social queues or body language thatā€™s sending me a message and you assuming I donā€™t care or have a certain opinion on the matter because of my response or lack of response when in fact, no I just did not get the message after all. And as such as an autistic person it often feels like neurotypicals expect us to read their minds because they are sending messages, communicating how they feel just not in a way, not in a language we understand.
So, why do they ask that for the snake and not for people? - because people donā€™t speak snake, but surely people do speak people, so they assumed they donā€™t need to ask because they assumed that they can follow the train of thought because it's just like theirs. They assumed they understood each other but itā€™s like an American and a Brit arguing about jumpers without realizing they are two completely different clothing items.
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dsmp-lainey Ā· 4 months ago
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no but actually the dsmp story is incredible and i stand by that always.
idk how itā€™s possible that such a wonderful compelling story was created through minecraft roleplay and a bunch of silly fans creations about it but somehow it was and i love it so dearly <3
the dsmp is such a good embodiment of how complicated any type of relationship can be, how people change over time, how obsession clouds judgement and how actions effect others.
itā€™s about love and loss, trust and abuse, forgiveness and resentment. and the story manages to make these exist all at once inside the complicated mess all the characters are, which is what makes them feel so real.
the dsmp is beautiful, the fan creations around it even more so, and i will always love this story so much.
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barzfrommarz Ā· 2 months ago
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DSMTOBER DAY 18
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thx to @/timetravelkoolaid for the prompts
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dreamystarsagedre Ā· 6 days ago
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Revivebur age regression board šŸ§øšŸ¦‡šŸ
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remake of my first revivebur age regression board since I felt like it and I like it alot better! I view rev as very sensory avoidant especially during his regression so he prefers softer colors + this is close to what his actual aesthetic would probably be
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mellorphic Ā· 2 years ago
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C!wilbur is autistic and canā€™t break eye contact. C!Tommy has adhd and canā€™t make eye contact. Theyā€™re brothers. Just fyi.
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