#autistic c!dream

[bleue-flora]

To be honest, something I see a lot in fanfiction is the reasoning for Dream’s mask being about how Dream can’t control his facial expressions well and is too readable, making him vulnerable to people knowing exactly what he’s thinking and feels. Personally though, especially now that we can reasonably say that Dream is autistic, I think it’s actually the opposite.

At least in my experience, with myself and with other autistic people, often the trouble is making the appropriate facial expression with the proper enthusiasm. Like telling a joke and people not know if you are kidding or not because you say it with such a straight face. Something I really struggle with is emoting excitement and joy so I have to be extra conscious of making sure my face is portraying how I feel so people don’t get the wrong idea.

The other thing I have to be aware of facially is eye contact, making sure to do the proper amount and/or don’t look somewhere else that makes it seem like you aren’t paying attention. (This is something I’ve realized since diagnosis that I am good at but hate, which is why I plan socializing around activities so I can focus on that instead of looking at the person.)

These are just a couple of the things on my mind when having a conversation (along with body language, tone of voice, what I’m saying…etc), that can really change how people perceive you. When not executed well people can really get the wrong impression of you, even thinking that you’re super intense, serious, a bitch, cold because your facial expressions are so stern and neutral, when in reality you could be feeling a lot of things (many people in high school didn’t talk to me and when asked later they said they were intimidated by me, and I think this might be one of the reasons why).

So, because of this, personally, I think Dream wears a mask not because he’s too open, but because he doesn’t emote properly or just doesn’t want to bother to try and emote properly, and dislikes eye contact. To not have to focus on making proper eye contact and facial expressions takes away that factor of misunderstanding and just makes conversing a lot less work and more comfortable. With a mask on, he doesn’t have to work on that part of his social masking (;D lol), now he can look where he wants and just have a resting bitch face if he wants to without worrying about how it comes across. That’s what I think is more likely the reason Dream wears a mask because he is actually naturally less expressive.

Furthermore, perhaps if he lost his mask in prison then maybe that’s a reason people in the prison are generally more cold to him and see him as less human because his expressions are so blank, giving people the perception that he’s very cold. Therefore making it easier for Sam and Quackity and even Tommy to hurt and dehumanize Dream in prison because subconsciously they are put off by his lack of emoting, which only further adds to the idea that Dream is some embodiment of evil…

[rouge-fauna]

I mean since cc!Dream is autistic you autistic c!dream theory is basically canon now me thinks :3

[autistic c!dream essay for anyone wanting to read]

Truuuuuue… I mean I wasn’t gonna say it but, yeah… and see I clocked it years ago, let’s go! Autistic c!Dream is canon whoop whoop! And oh I love the symbolism of the mask involved in that. :)

[symphony-of-smoke]

Hello!

I'm 🚬Revbur, I use any pronouns(he/it/she mainly), bodily an adult, gay, autistic, disabled, and co-host of our DID system the Analog Collective.

if it's not obvious enough, I'm a DSMP fictive, and I'm looking for others like me(source or not, kins and doubles welcome) to be friends. so hey, if you want to chat, shoot me a dm! I might come off weird but hey that's to be expected right lol

[barzfrommarz]

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 doesn’t try as hard

-Dino arms especially after revival, unless he’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 can’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. It’s what keeps him going sometimes

-Listens to music really loudly but hates most loud noises

-Hates going into las nevadas when it’s super busy. Always tries to avoid the noises and crowds so he always visiting c!q at odd times

that’s it shoutout to autistic c!wilbur

[dreamystarsagedre]

Revivebur age regression board 🧸🦇

[nekolikedacat]

its almost 2am and i suddenly started grieving how underdeveloped cfundys phropecy gift was

[anxiouslyextroverted]

do you have any dsmp neurodivergent headcanons? I have many

YES! thank you for asking!! :D

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

[daily-ish-syndicate-headcanons]

Techno has the nastiest resting bitch face you will ever see. He constantly looks like he's furious at something.

[ask-the-burs]

Guys I am NOT autistic. Why do I keep seeing people say I am??

-Revivebur

[ashbeanss]

idk if it’s just me but it’s really interesting to watch how the fandom’s feelings about c!dapduo have changed over time. back in 2021 you’d be crucified for even thinking about them romantically because they ‘had a father and son relationship’.

cheers to this fandom being less violently ableist, let’s keep it that way.

[cyburnya]

DAPDUO SWEEP!!! CONGRATS TO DAPDUO!!!

it's a sweep across the board and against all odds, autism wins. go team!

[bleue-flora]

Oh no I just realized… Dream being autistic means the bell Techno was ringing had to be like torture for him. Like talk about overstimulated. I think I’d kill Techno at some point to be honest if he was too annoying with it, because I cannot handle noise very well… but also just even the noise of the lava and guardians had to get annoying, though I suppose at some point you kinda get used to it. At first though, it probably made him miserable. And oh, the texture of the obsidian, and his jumpsuit, and a blood soaked jumpsuit, and his long hair and then dirty long hair would be awful. And then there’s the obnoxious lava light always shining with no reprieve (damn with a concussion it’d be even worse, yikes)… just wow Pandora is such a nightmare for people but for autistic people and our heightened senses it really would be hell in of itself… at that point, who wouldn’t jump in the lava to erase, even if just for a second, the feelings of all the textures around him. A few warm seconds of silent dark bliss before he respawns.

[rouge-fauna]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha, this aged well huh. Lol I agree in fact, there are many parallels even to like him being forced to hide inside with curtains drawn and such trying to hide his face while his character was in Pandora’s Vault… the interesting thing is in the recent stream he mentioned that he thinks some fans hate him because he played the villain and the thing is, while that isn’t necessarily true, I think the reasons why he became the villain on the dsmp are reasons why he is becoming one irl now. Propaganda, lies, slander, insults… etc turning everyone against him and not to say he’s perfect, in the same way his character certainly isn’t but he’s also not much worse than many others and the things he has done hardly make him the devil (I mean c!Tommy calls him a devil before he even knows about the experiments). Projection it seems extends to Dream as well as us fans lol, but yea it is so deeply sad…

[our-rewritten-symphony]

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.

[barzfrommarz]

undiagnosed autistic c!wilbur my love : (

he is so me

[dreamystarsagedre]

Revivebur age regression board 🧸🦇🐏

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