#my reading comprehension is not the highest bc I myself am in need of adhd meds 🤣

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Just read the new chapter of ur soccer au and I'm loving it!! Poor pietro, he has my heart.

However when I got to the part where Charles wonders that Erik never seems to object when Charles takes things to manage his telepathy but he does when it comes to Pietro. It kinda does make me sad for Charles. Will we see more of this in the next chapter??

Loved the fic!

Thank you so much for reading and sharing your thoughts!

To answer your question, yes, Charles and Erik will eventually talk in present-time about things like mutant healthcare + medication + Pietro’s ADHD and Charles’ paraplegia. Their reconciliation scene will probably be the chapter after Wanda’s.

But, don’t feel sad for Charles (regarding the painkillers at least)! There are lots of implied reasons that Erik might be okay with Charles taking meds:

Excedrin is an over-the-counter pill that is used in the general population for mild headaches, whereas Adderall is a highly stigmatized prescription drug that parents often worry is overprescribed to children

Charles takes his medicine as needed to get rid of migraines, but Pietro taking a prescription regularly is different (to Erik) in that he might not want his son to become dependent on the drug to function. This is one of the more common talking points in anti-medication discourse, at least in my experience—I’ve worked with many parents who cite “risk of addiction/dependence” as a reason not to medicate their ADHD student.

Canonically, Erik is very proud about being a mutant. So he definitely doesn’t like that doctors are pathologizing Pietro’s gift—he believes the ADHD symptoms are a feature, not a bug (as annoying as he finds them). But in the case of Charles’ telepathy, migraines are a negative side effect.

Charle’s migraines cause him to express visible pain. Pietro’s mutation does not.

Charles is an adult. Pietro is a child.

There are more known telepaths in the world than speedsters at this point in time, so new medications aren’t yet widely tested in individuals with Pietro’s mutation. They have no idea how it’ll affect Pietro, while Charles presumably has been using Excedrin for a while.

Honestly any of these reasons(s) and more could be Erik’s thinking, so for now feel free to take your pick 🤷 I hope that part didn’t come off as Erik not caring about Charles’ telepathy! Erik definitely would have a problem if the Excedrin had the DoFP-effect on Charles (i.e. if he lost his powers from taking them. That’s not the case in this AU).