#damian wayne is autistic

[damianwaynesutilitybelt]

Damian Wayne is autistic cos I said so

But also evidence

Trouble socialising has missed social ques over and over connects more to animals then people:

Example: trauma dumping on a 4yr old

When Dick was freaking out about his girlfriend possibly being pregnant Damian completely ignore that and demanded Dick's attention and followed him to his apartment.

Strong sense of justice

Struggles to go against his own morals

Example: gotham wars- won't let goons run Gotham

Immediately going vegetarian for batcow

Repetitive movements/

Saying "tt" alot

Could defiantly classify under a stim, as stimming is basically a release /express of emotions and he does it consistently

Insistent on sameness:

Example; Didnt want to get a haircut only Alfred could do it

Viewing jon as a master student situation and seeing the teen titans the same

Hyperfixation;

We know Damian spends hours to days fixated on something

Example: hacking into the batcomputer fir Tim's hit list

"It was child's play"

"That took you 6 hours"

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

(Not super strong evidence as common but ads to the mix

Food struggles

"I hate orange juice with pulp

Immediately sympathising with Trinity- the mac and cheese has crumbs in it

"I eat fear for breakfast

"No you eat ovaltine and pop tarts"

- strange food combination but maybe implying he eats the same thing every day

[beeinc]

THEY !! WILL !! NOT !! LET !! YOU !! GO !! HOME !!

tHATS IT!!

Damian Wayne was in a CULT. period end of story I will not concede this point. He was ripped away from the only life hed ever known and then told that everyone and everything hed ever loved was BAD. THATS SO FUCKED UP.

can we talk about how Damian’s culture shock had not been addressed in any significant way ever in canon or fanon?

imagine you are 10 years old, your mother loves you dearly, you are told all your life stories of how important and legendary your father The Batman is, you are to be a strong warrior-assassin-son and you excel in your training, your mother and grandfather are proud of you until they say you have to leave.

you lose everything. your home country, language, religion, relationships. your comfort foods, smells, clothes. everything.

you're given to your father who you have been told you need to prove yourself to, you are being treated as an enemy, you have no allies, no one will explain the unwritten unspoken rules especially not your father who has decided you are a nuisance.

they tell you your past and everyone in it is evil, your home is evil, your mother and grandfather are evil. you cannot have any connection to anything or anyone familiar.

your father dies. they all still hate you. they will not let you go home.

[were-wolverine]

[birdiegray01]

Bruce gets Damian legos because he’s trying to connect with him and the two end up completely missing patrol because they were to busy building all of Gotham with the legos

[strslv-4sh]

Someone: Boop! Got your autism.

Damian: You better give me that back, that was a gift from my father.

[timmydraker]

Everyone in the Bat Clan has been noticing something over the years, specially about Tim.

Every so often he will go to do something with his hands or even his entire body, such as swaying or shaking his hands, but always stops himself.

There’s almost this look of annoyance on his face that just barely hides discomfort, but he brushes it off quickly.

Bruce noticed and, thinking about Robin more than anything, offered some kind of fidgeting device to help him stay on task, only for Tim to snap at him for the first time. It was his usual snark or commenting on Bruce’s well being, but a real moment of lashing out.

He decided then not to bother Tim about his clear want to move around it play with something even if it’s just his hands, mainly because he was doing his job well.

Yet, as he starts to really try and be a good parent to his kids and realises that Tim is one of the places he messed up most by basically using him to cope with grief, he decides to ask the rest of the family what they think.

Dick says it could be ADHD and he needs movements, with Barbara backing it up with a few websites in agreement.

Damian says he should mediate and Cass so what agrees but says it probably won’t help someone like Tim that much.

Duke and Steph make up a somewhat chaotic plan of coercing him into telling them what he needs, out of love and somewhat aggressive care.

It’s Jason who just scoffs and says, “It’s stimming, you idiots. He has like, super messed up standards cause of his parents, right? They probably didn’t allow it but he’s got that like, autastic thing.”

Only Jason Todd could say something so smart followed by completely idiocy.

But he is right, very much so. It might also explain why sometimes he seemingly couldn’t handle touch but when he panicked he need to be squeezed as tightly as possible.

Naturally, with a family of emotionally repressed vigilantes, they decide to subtly let him know it’s okay.

Dick is the worst with it, speaking far too loudly about how Autism is okay and how he wants to learn to support autistic kids, while Bruce thinks nodding along to this helps.

Damian just stares at Tim for five minutes before bailing and running away.

When a month passes and Tim seem more like he’s even more ashamed than anything my, Cass smashes her hand on the table at dinner and drags him out of the room to talk to him.

Tim is forced to sit and listen to his sister, who may or may not be his favourite sibling, talk about how he’s not damaged or wrong for needing to stim and move his body. She calls him out on how he is being a hypocrite, for accepting people like Bart and Barbara and and her for their disabilities whether ADHD or something physical but not himself.

Tim wouldn’t have been moved by this if it was anyone else, but never in all the time he’s known her has he heard Cass say so many words in one go nor can see her cry so much. She’s loud when she cries, making up for her silence, but it’s only something any of them have seen twice and that was Bruce and Steph.

He doesn’t just magically accept that he’s neurodivergent, nor does he ever want a title as to what is different about him, but the difference is still noticeable.

A week later him and Dick are watching an episode of their show and something Tim adores, a comic series, is referenced. Instead of what he usually does, that being sitting there as still as he can, he bats his hands around a for a few seconds before pausing and waiting for Dicks reaction.

When Dick beams at him brighter than a sun he continues, smacking the couch and even Dicks arm in his excitement.

A few days later he makes a high pitched noice just to get to an itch in his throat and doesn’t realise that Jason is there, yet when the other responds with the same noice, given a bit deeper, Tim smile. Bruce walks in on them making strange noises at each other in a sort of echo.

It’s months later when it’s his birthday and his family has come together to buy him a new, stupidly expensive camera only to reveal they also added a red light room in the manner for him to print them that they really see how much safer he feels.

He flaps his hands aggressively and jumps in place, rumbling out words that don’t all much and thanking them over and over.

He squeals happily but only has a moment where he looks shamed before Bruce holds out a flat palm for him to smack excitedly.

Later, when he gets overwhelmed and crashes a little, Duke lies on top of him to give him pressure only for Steph to sit on him.

[fckbatmanhiskidsareminenow]

damian with autism but no one realises at first because 1. he’s been masking his whole life and 2. they all just assume because he didn’t have a normal childhood that that’s why he struggles so much socially.

until one day he talks the most he’s ever talked to anyone and it’s just a 3 hour rant about how sharks aren’t evil and it clicks.

[theaceofarrows]

Dick: Oh my gosh, guys. Bruce took Damian for diagnostic screening and found out he was on the spectrum, too

Tim: Nepotism. Damian is a genetic nepo baby

Jason: Well damn, you right...

[ambriel-angstwitch]

Omg! Tim liking the schedule and Damian’s solemn nod.

I love my little autistic boys. They’re so dedicated to the job. (And they just like schedules)

[wesavegotham]

I went through some comics to find this panel and I simply miss Damian's extreme audacity.

Like this kid met Batman, his father, and said "I thought you would be taller", forced him to do a suprise a scavanger hunt at one point, hacked Justice Leage files simply out of boredom and once broke into a one of Bruce's safes to repair a device that let him teleport to the JL watchtower in space to spent time with and annoy Bruce.

I truly don't get why people say Damian and Bruce are not fun to read, I still love Bruce suffering because he's confronted with someone just as stubborn, annoying and socially incompetent as he is. And now he has to act like the responsible one.

[garpen]

damian gets a bf and bruce makes a post thats just

"taking child applications! prefered:

lesbian"

Literally Bruce, if Damian ever ends up dating a guy:

(The applicant needs to be monogamous bc if they date more than one woman, then the numbers won't be numbering again.)

[somepinkthing]

tim and damian are the exact same level of annoying-know-it-all.

Tim is definitely an 🤓umactually type BUT he can concede a point once proven wrong.

Damian is far less likely to 🤓👆 BUT he has a big ol' superiority complex and would rather start a physical fight than concede a point.

Together, they r a whole menace. The most annoying entity in your college class. Truly powerful stuff. They can clear a room just by holding a civil (well they think it's civil) conversation.

[dragonpyre]

In my heart of hearts, I know. That Damian Al-Ghul reads Warrior Cats

[hundredpoundsofsassyandunstable]

I bring Autistic Duke Thomas to the table where others may fight it.

AUTISTIC DUKE THOMAS!!!

[worstwolverinesbf]

the batfam as things i and others have said pt 2

jason talking about his death: everyone has bad days, everyone gets blown up sometimes

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tim: dad, how old are you?

bruce: old enough

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dick: the moon is in a phase

tim: what is it, emo?

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jason talking about tims mental state: its being held together with zip ties and a dream

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steph when a bat appears: i hate when men do that… appear out of thin air

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bruce, deadpan: i was gonna say who has a mobile number (police number) but it’s the police

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tim talking about wifi: it keeps dropping out

jason: of high school?

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bruce: are you on something?

little dick: FREEDOM

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tim after scrolling on tumblr for too long: teenagers relate to murder

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dick after fighting slade too many times: he’s always down to kill kids and i respect that

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pt 1

[mae-kent]

the types of autistic batboys

bruce: ‘he’s a great kid, i only wish he would socialise more’ child

dick: ‘perhaps consider adderall?’ child

jason: ‘pleasure to have in class’ child

tim: ‘he was ever in my class?’ child

damian: ‘he’s certainly unique!’ child