#gob bluth is autistic

[anonymous-tals]

Sometimes you’re too overwhelmed to do an elaborate drawing and you just gotta sketch some little guys being silly and goofy.

Gob and Buster have the neurodivergent sibling bond.

Michael is forced into a one-sided-neurodivergent sibling bond, haha.

If Tony ever leaves the house without Gob, I think Gob would likely, like, text him intermittently, if not all throughout the time that he’s out.

[island-ofthelost]

Evidence of the Bluths being Jewish (master list)

Reblog with more if you know of any!

-The creator, Mitch Hurwitz (who’s Jewish), specifically created the family to be ambiguously Jewish (essentially, they were created with Judaism in mind). In an interview with the New Yorker, Mitch said the Bluths were partially based on his Wife’s Jewish family, and they got “more Jewish” as the show went on.

-Both Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter, who played George Sr. and Lucille (the patriarch and matriarch of the family) are Jewish.

-Bluth is a fairly common Ashkenazic last name, this was also specifically in mind when creating the family. In an interview, Mitch said that he gave them a name that was “Jewish, but not too Jewish” (and essentially making them that by extension), to have wiggle room on jokes/situations.

-When George Sr. “converted” in jail, he already knew Yiddish/Hebrew, what a yarmulke was for, and seemingly everything else about Judaism (his reason for conversion was seeing a reflection of the Star of David on the wall, just fyi).

-In season 1 episode 4, there’s a mezuzah on the doorframe of the Bluth model home, which was five episodes before George Sr’s prison conversion.

-This is a bit of a stretch on my part, but when White Power Bill stabbed Gob, he screamed “White Power!” but Gob’s… White…. Now, this could just be Pokémon speak (re: Annyong), but it was specifically stated that WPB was antisemitic.

-Unfortunately, the whole thing with the “Bluth Nose”.

-Perhaps unfortunately, they do fall into a lot of media stereotypes. Most glaringly, the Overbearing Jewish Mother (Lucille), as well the Jewish American Princess (Lindsay) and the Nice Jewish Boy (almost every male character save for George Sr. and Gob). If the Bluths were canonically Jewish these would be blatant stereotypes and I don’t know how I feel about that…

And if any of you were wondering, yes I am Jewish.

[ur-fav-is-autistic]

Gob Bluth from Arrested Development is Autistic!

[arrestedexgirlfriendafterhigh]

Just in love with my new header thing.

The wee babes🥲

[theflannelwizard]

Oops, I lied about sending all my questions in one, I thought of an actually specific question and not just a super general one five seconds after sending the ask:

Do you have any neurodivergent hcs for Buster and Gob(or other characters if you hc anyone else as neurodivergent)?

This is such a good question!! Okay!! It got long so I'm putting it under the cut, but TLDR: undiagnosed comorbid autistm and ADHD for both of them plus ADHD Tony Wonder :) I forced myself not to get into it with the rest of the Bluths cause this post would be a mile long but i did put cursory thoughts about them in the tags. All of this is spitballing and I'm definitely open to hearing other opinions!

Whatever is going on with Buster’s brain is the same thing that’s going on with my brain, so most likely ADHD and/or autism but DEFINITELY undiagnosed. None of the Bluths have the diagnoses they need and if someone (Tobias) tries to so much as allude to them being neurodivergent in front of George Sr. and/or Lucille it gets shut down immediately.

Anyway Buster reads more autistic than ADHD to me but it could be either or both. He has trouble reading other people’s emotions and regulating his own, he’s “strange” and “childish” in ways that are direct responses to how he was raised but also just read as neurodivergent, he’s got safe foods and takes things literally and has no clue how to read social cues and stims and gestures vaguely at all of him is just so very ND. Also the thing with ADHD-havers being randomly struck with bouts of guilt or self loathing? I think that’s him. ADHD was recently reclassified as an anxiety disorder, too, which we know full well is Buster, and it would not surprise me if his panic and anxiety attacks were brought on by sensory overload and RSD and other ADHD things at least some of the time.

As for GOB, I think he’s got the same deal but he reads more ADHD than autistic. I think they both have both but it presents differently in each of them. I’m fully on board with both magic and bees being special interests for that man, and he also just moves and talks and interacts with people in a very neurodivergent way. The stuttering when he’s overwhelmed is, to me, adjacent to (if not straight up being) him going nonverbal. He definitely has RSD too, look at how devastated he is when anyone rejects him ever. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he was bipolar, getting manic when he’s really into a project and then falling into depression for weeks or months at a time.

And, just as a bonus, I think Tony Wonder has ADHD. He recognizes it in GOB and helps him with learn to function in a healthier happier way and his siblings are so confused cause GOB just magically started getting more normal?? Except it’s not magic (and it’s not an illusion lmao) it’s just coping mechanisms. Tony’s been collecting them from various therapists for like 30 years. He has no clue how anyone in this family thinks they’re neurotypical.

[1000-silverfish-in-a-hoodie]

List of unhinged trans man head cannons (I’m correct)

- Gob Bluth (Arested Development)

- Nick Miller (new girl)

- Every Nick Offerman character (especially Ron Swanson)

- J Jonah Jameson (except MCU, cause he has Ben Shapiro vibes)

- Every JK Simmons character

- Everyone on Letterkenny

- Skull Fucker (Metal Lords)

- BNL and the vibe of Canadian folk rock music

- Sam Elliot (the most transgender name of a cis man)

- Scott Pilgram (every character)

- Marge Simpson (Also Autistic)

[autisticheadcanons]

George Oscar "Gob" Bluth II from Arrested Development is autistic.

[ao3feed-arresteddevelopment]

The One Who Almost Drowned

by anonymoustals

After the family pageant of the summer of 1982 went awry, Gob is sent to his room to think over his reckless actions. Think about what he’s done. And, he does that. He thinks a lot. A lot, a lot. And, then, he thinks about what he can do next.

Words: 20231, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Arrested Development

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: George Oscar "Gob" Bluth, Michael Bluth, Lindsay Bluth Funke, Byron "Buster" Bluth, Lucille Bluth, George Bluth Sr.

Additional Tags: Depression, Angst, Big TW for suicide, Like, if that stuff gets to you, DO NOT READ THIS, no one dies, but still, similar tw for eating disorders, but it’s not as delved into, Eating Disorders, Suicide, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Anorexia, Bulimia, Pre Show, Trauma, Friendship, Family, Vacation, Autism, ADHD, OCD, Autistic George Oscar “Gob” Bluth, ADHD George Oscar “Gob” Bluth, OCD Michael Bluth, Proshippers dni

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[autistically-zoinked]

Arrested Development hasn't been a special interest of mine in years but I faintly remember headcanoning Gob as autistic and you know what? I was right.

[mallratsys]

Arrested Development is abt untreated and undiagnosed autism in Upper Class/Wealthy Families.

[anonymous-tals]

Listen, it’s a free country, if I wanna make an AU where Gob Bluth and Marta Estrella from Arrested Development are friends as teenagers, I can do that. It’s allowed. And no one can stop me.

Marta enjoyers rise up.

Here’s a sketch of a future one and two of the sketches for the ones above, which I’m including just cause I think they’re cute.

[island-ofthelost]

yeah I agree with this but what I meant is that he was a little freak pre season 4. Obviously it was “worse” in seasons 4 and 5, but I don’t think the character shift is as big as people think it is. In the first three seasons he shows obvious signs of the Bluth-typical autistic behavior TM and unhealthy relationship with his son, but it’s sort of overlooked because at that point he genuinely was the “normal one” compared to his family, not because he functioned at a higher level but because he had a greater depth of knowledge than his otherwise very ignorant family, meaning that he had to sort of guide them despite not really having any business doing that. It’s extremely rare to see him interacting with anyone outside of his family in the first three seasons, but when he does it’s incredibly obvious that this can’t interact worth shit, and there was some retconning in the later seasons that confirmed that his fixations had all started before the run of the series. It’s also worth a mention that in the first three seasons he was the main character, and the narrator and narrative as a whole almost had no choice but to paint him in a more positive light than the rest of his family so the audience would root for him. But since the later seasons (especially season 4) when the perspectives switch between characters that he’s portrayed perhaps more accurately than he was was initially (this has credence because in other characters focus episodes they were also portrayed much more sympathetically. This isn’t a knock at any of the characters but the whole plot of the show revolves around these people being fundamentally flawed and kind of terrible), this is especially evident in George Michael centric episodes. So essentially what I’m saying is that people either brush off Michael’s behavior in the later seasons as flanderization or even outfight mischaracterization, imply that he had some kind of mental breakdown (which has varying levels of truth to it but wouldn’t account for his behavior entirely seeing as these seasons span multiple years and flashbacks show him acting very similarly pre-series, if anything seasons 1-3 were just him pulling his shit together for his family), or concede that he isn’t normal but only mention behavior from seasons 4 and 5. I understand that Michael isn’t as interesting to most fans (not me tho) as the other characters and is contrasted with Gob especially. But it feels almost disrespectful to the level of complexity the writers were attempting to add into his character to see him as “the one that was normal but got a little quirky”.

I bring a “Michael was never truly normal and projected the illusion of normalcy through lack of ignorance in the first three seasons but truly didn’t change much between the original run and the revival but it seems that way due to the shift in perspective from Michael exclusively to other characters as well as showing Michael interacting more with people outside of his family” vibe to the function that the Arrested Development fandom don’t really like 😩😩😭😭💀

[anonymous-tals]

His ass is not watching the movie!!!

The artwork on the fridge was drawn by Gob(and Tony drew Gob in the big drawing).

Close ups of picture frames, etc below:

The Bluths definitely would have, like, very few photos from the siblings’ childhoods, other than Buster, and the photos they did have be would, like, not be easy to find since it’s not like the parents would really care about keeping track of most of them(again, other than Buster’s photos) so Gob’s contribution to the house is, like, mainly from one of the family’s photo shoots and a couple photos from his childhood that he happened to be in frame for.

[anonymous-tals]

[anonymous-tals]

My sister said the way I described little Gob staring at the waiter from underneath a table in a scene I was writing reminded her of the autism creature so I drew him as a kid and also as an adult as the autism creature.

Additional sketch of the scene I described to her(he’s under there cause he’s a little gremlin with no impulse control and wanted to explore, he’s eventually coaxed out with a soda):

[yvanka]

I thing it's most likely unintentional, just like a lot of other shows/ movies.

I think it's very common for autistic rep to just be 'weird' characters loosly based on real autstic ppl and just autistic traits in general.

Having a general idea about these traits, but not knowing what that means or that that is what autism is.

Also that keeps perpatuating as they base new weird characters on other weird characters...

I can’t tell if they purposefully wrote Buster as autistic or if they gave him all these traits without realizing what they meant. Like, every other thing about Buster aside, specifically the moment in season five where they have a party for Buster and all the food is, like, very specific instead of a cohesive meal, it’s, like, safe food stuff, and it’s all prepared and laid out in a very specific way- Like, no way they didn’t know, right? At least by this point in season five, this can’t- This has to be on purpose, right???

But also, I dunno, maybe they just don’t know!

But it’s so obvious that I’m like noooo, they have to…But maybe…But they can’t…But there’s the possibility…