#autistic c!dream

[bleue-flora]

Hi! I just wanted to Say that I loved your essay about cdream being autistic bc it's been a hc for me for a while and i apreciated seeing someone else who not only shares it but also makes analisys on it.

Like cdream strong sense of justice, how he struggles sometimes with empathy not bc he doesn't have it but bc he feels it differently, how he uses himself as the comparision point with others in sense that if he can with something he thinks others could too, how he can close himself to the world bc he doesn't know how to communicate what he wants in the begining+not knowing how to react when people don't listen to him not matter what he tries or Even if he plays their rules, how he seems to need to move all the time, etc. It's all stuff i identified within myself.

And i liked what You said bc yeah very probably Even if it wasn't intentional cdream was written in a way that can be pretty neurodirvergent coded like ctechno too and their creators being neurodirvergent themselfs very probably had influenced on that. And idk it makes me very happy to think about it :D

I’m so glad you liked it(them) [essay]. :) Honestly, it’s hard for me to even consider it a headcanon and not just canon because it just makes so much sense. And as you pointed out, the neurodivergence of the creators would make sense if their characters were too, given the close connection between both in the dsmp. After all, these creators are not professional actors and a lot of it is improv, so it makes sense that the characters would be neurodivergent if their creator is. I also think it’d be hard to make and play a character like they did with so much improv as neurotypical if they are neurodivergent (and vice versa). Because it’d take lots of extra care to go against your natural self which would be rather hard to do while also improving, so I’d say it kinda is canon in that sense. In other words, assuming Dream (and Techno?) are confirmed neurodivergent, (which I don’t know if that’s for sure) then it makes the most sense for their cs to also be neurodivergent, since it’s unlikely that amateur improvisers making characters linked to themselves and their brand would make characters that don’t align with how they think and see the world…. Anyways I’m glad I’m not alone in my madness. I’ve been thinking about writing some more about it since I did cut quite a bit of my essay(s) that was in my other drafts like more about how autistic people tend to struggle with change, which we see in Dream as he pushes back against L’manberg…

[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. :)

[dsmp-lainey]

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 it’s even more beautiful for that. there’s very little that is considered the exact correct story, it’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 don’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.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[bleue-flora]

So how’s the hc of c!dream being autistic feeling in light of recent news?

Pretty much confirmed canon now, because I think we can probably all agree that it’s not like the creators are professional actors so in many ways their personality bled into the characters so if cc!Dream is confirmed to be autistic, that pretty much means c!Dream is as well. Like no offense but I don’t think cc!Dream is that good of an actor to play a neurotypical character lol. I can barely try and write one XD. And of course the things talked about in my essays still stand as further support of that.

So… yeah, feels good. Especially because now I have a really good reason to give to people about why I’m obsessed with my green boy, cuz it’s not like there are that many autistic characters to be obsessed with and project onto. It’s also cool because the narrative and symbolism pieces I talked about in [part 3] of my autism essay now are confirmed to be applicable which is really cool. Like I mean the symbolism of the mask for one is just 👌… don’t even get me started on Pandora’s Vault being a great metaphor for people boxing up their autism for years (*cough* me *cough*).

Also this does open the box of actually considering what else this makes pretty canonical. For example, a common autistic thing is to not like eye contact (I personally hate it) and as mentioned in my essay, a reason for the mask could be so Dream can avoid having to make eye contact and making proper facial expressions to go with the situation.

Which means a few interesting things for fanfiction 1) I’ve often seen a theme of Dream having a mask because he’s so expressive and therefore is hiding his true intention with the mask and when he has it off he’s really easy to read. This however is likely not the case. In fact, Dream without the mask would mostly likely be just as hard to read because he would not be emoting properly, he might even by emoting inappropriately for the situation. He also could by extension not be one for extra eye contact. Course in my fics there is plenty of eye contact, but you’ll notice that I make a point to highlight it, because it’s not his natural or most comfortable thing to do….

Anyways, I’m pretty stoked honestly and I’m kinda curious if people will implement more autistic characteristics when writing Dream now. I hope they will at least keep it in mind, because I think that’d be really cool. And hey, to anyone not autistic or in general I suppose, feel free to reach out if you need some help or have questions about writing autistic Dream. :)

[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…

[dsmp-lainey]

no but actually the dsmp story is incredible and i stand by that always.

idk how it’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.

it’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.

[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