#autistic penelope garcia

[0o-junebug-o0]

Hotch and Garcia’s friendship is so special to me. She makes him smile more than pretty much anyone else. And they’re like opposite flavors of autistic

[thatsadfem]

Why is Penelope Garcia so underrated in the cm fandom??

Like when I post about Garcia, their posts are like 10-15 likes, only a few have a high amount, but I post 4 pictures of prentiss, and it's my best performing post lmao.

Like are you guys so gay for Emily Prentiss that you like foam at the mouth every time you see any post about her . BE GAY FOR GARCIA, SHE IS SUCH A ICON OMFG

Like she is so gorgeous, and sweet and loving and like the perfect gf. she has such an iconic style, and she is so relatable and likeable

IDK, maybe y'all just arent really into bigger gals, your loss lol (by the way this is not a prentiss hate post, she's also a gorgeous icon)

[wereoz]

i know in my heart penelope garcia loves stimming with slime, ESPECIALLY the ones with charms and beads, and spencer reid is a tangle man through and through

[chueesy]

when i say penelope garcia is autistic and they look at me like i’ve got 2 heads and 20 fingers as if her office doesn’t look like THIS

[weirdlybeans]

My favorite autistic trio <3

[insane-thoughts-oftheday]

I wish there were more fics about platonic or fraternal relationships for some characters... like it's obvious to me that Spencer Reid and Garcia are brothers and autistic (they are so cute in their interactions in the series)!! the fandom could explore this field more

[birdiebats]

My Disney Plus expired before I could finish Criminal Minds 🥲

[0o-junebug-o0]

Bro the first gif is so autistic of Reid and Garcia. Reid’s handshake, the way Garcia is standing (I stand like that lmao)

Bring it, pretty boy. I’ll be waitin’ for you. I’ll be there.

[boywonderloverr]

spencer reid always wearing his watch on top of his sleeve so it's not touching his skin. i know what you are (autistic)

[0o-junebug-o0]

My criminal minds neurodivergency headcanons:

[thatsadfem]

Derek Morgan headcannons

Possibly bicurious (he LOVES women, but acts a bit too gay to be fully heterosexual)

He sends Ellie Spicer letters every few months checking in on her, and when she graduates, he plans on attending the ceremony

His desk slowly begins to become covered in Garcia's toys, figits and figurines. When people come into his office they ask if he has a daughter and hes just like "yeah her name is Penny, she just turned 31 and she works next door"

Neurodivergent expert, as he consistently helps out Spencer and Penelope during meltdowns

Almost dated Elle, but when he saw how Spencer looked at her, he decided he would let him have her (my spencelle heart)

HUGE sports card collection that he keeps in organised cases

Second-best hugger ever, only below Garcia and her mum hugs

[wereoz]

welcome back spencer reid & penelope garcia

[mismatchsocks]

spencer reid autistic. penelope garcia autistic. aaron hotchner autistic. jason gideon autistic.

source? trust me.

[reidobsessed]

[0o-junebug-o0]

Like Garcia is so explicitly autistic coded (though probably unintentionally) in some ways even more so than Reid (though he is definitely autistic). People just never consider autism in women. And Gideon and Hotch are both extremely high masking individuals (bc of when they grew up and also probably don’t realize they’re autistic) and no one thinks about you autistic traits still come through to an extent even with masking. And how by masking some traits become more pronounced unintentionally.

I like to think that for Hotch, he struggles with facial expressions and tone. Which is why his face is always so neutral and his voice can seem monotone if you’re not used to it. And in my mind part of that is because that’s what’s natural to him and part of it is because he’s masking less socially acceptable expressions and tones of voice (though I definitely don’t think he’d be very expressive if he wasn’t masking).

And Gideon with his birds. That is a special interest right there. He’s like those old men who have a room dedicated to a collection or something and everything thinks it’s just a quirk of theirs when it’s just undiagnosed autism.

People never really consider autism and how it can manifest outside of the stereotypical boy/man who is either a lower support needs savant/genius of some sort (like reid) or higher support needs and intellectually disabled (****having high support needs does not mean someone has an intellectually disability people just believe that it does which is why I phrased it like that****)

This is coming from someone who is low support needs, non-masking, raised/socialized as female, and was diagnosed as an adult due to my own instigation.

(Don’t forget to listen to people with higher support needs when it comes to autism and the perception of autism (they experience the effects of autism’s perception more than I do))

It kind of annoys me that Garcia, Gideon, and Hotch could all be argued to have autistic traits but most people laser focused on Reid being The Autistic One.

[flyingraven]

Spencer Reid Being Autistic for 5 Minutes Straight