#neurodivergent headcanon

[who-datgirl]

Y’all ever since someone said “Whittaker!Master” on here I have NOT been able to get it out of my head. I honestly kind of need it. Jodie would serve c*nt on a damn silver platter as the next Master. It canonically is not even too far fetched that The Master would regenerate Jodie’s face after the events of the forced regeneration with 13.

“Are you really so shocked I would wind up looking like this darling? Don’t flatter yourself about it, I didn’t plan to wear this face. After the forced regeneration was canceled an imprint of this body was left within me, but I have no complaints. After all, LOOK at me. You didn’t wear this with an ounce of the elegance that I do. If anything, I am doing you a favor”.

Let her slay with her outfit and makeup and give us the post-Missy incarnation we all deserve. Jodie would EAT.

[spro-o]

okokokok i saw your lance post and i do not know that fandom at all but it was gorgeous and it prompted me to ask you

thoughts on adhd!chase? chase in your artstyle is my favorite chase. chase is also the most adhd person on the show apart from kutner (according to me, the most adhd person i know except for my sister and my cousin and my uncle and my other cousin and my great-uncle and my grandpa...). that man does not sit still and he is constantly biting on something. usually a pen. but i bet he bit cameron at least once when they were married and has probably bitten other people too. (random headcanon)

could you please make adhdchase art? no pressure obviously! i just havne't seen art of that in the medical malpractice fandom and i think you'd make something incredible based on your previous incredible ability to create adhd lance art (whoever he is).

very much agree with this one!! my boy definitely got that divergent

have a little adhd Chase, the beloved 🤲 :3

[painyrainy]

...chat.... we projecting onto characters w this one‼️‼️

Sanemi is autistic maybe? 1/?

me being scared to say this cuz I've seen the fate of other poor souls who had posted this on other sites

I am going to make separate posts because if I put it all into one it's gonna be too long and no one will read it lol

1- the whole Sanemi vs Giyu conflict

ok, so the number one reason that sanegiyu has haters (not including all the homophobics 😒) is that it would be toxic. Oh! But- Sanemi hates Giyu! He bullies him for no reason!

ok but there is a reason; miscommunication. Giyu has 20 mental health issues and lowkey don't gaf about his reputation. Why doesn't Sanemi pick up on it? Not only does he miss the obvious hints, but he wildly catastrophises the situation to be "Oh, he doesn't talk to us, he must think he's superior". Literally like... everyone else knows that Giyu's dealing with stuff and Sanemi interpreted it as a personal attack.

This can be interpreted as Sanemi's own infeority problems, but it could also be an autistic trait of misinterpreting and catastrophising, catastrophising also being a symtom of anxiety, which you might know that Sanemi shows symptoms of anxiety from @/demonslayerunhinged's post. Guess what? Anxiety is also widely found in autistic individuals. 😮

Misinterpreting tone, because Giyu wasn't even trying to hide anything, is also another obvious trait that I don't rlly need to explain. Yall know this. Misinterpreting body language, tone, social cues (we will talk specifically about this. mayybe), etc.

"Well...,, , why aren't we talking about obanai then..,.,?" Because he's just a little hater idrc about him right now.

I feel like i missed smth. my brain is fried. I apologise.

[the-river-rix]

Bones ND/disability hcs!!!

(These are the characters that I have the clearest idea on I will prob update it)

Temperance Brennan: Autism, C-PTSD

Seeley Booth: ADHD, C-PTSD, Addiction Disorder, Chronic Pain

Angela Montenegro: Anxiety, Unspecified manic/depressive disorder

Jack Hodgins: AuDHD, PTSD, paraplegic

Camille Saroyan: Anxiety, depression, OCD, anorexia

Zack Addy: Autism, anxiety, depression, C-PTSD, Chronic pain (in his hands), he struggles with depersonalization and derealization but it’s a product of his cptsd

Lance Sweets: Autism, C-PTSD, Anxiety, depression

Clark Edison: high-masking autistic

Arastoo Vaziri: PTSD, DPDR

Wendell Bray: Autism?? (I’m kind of not sure something is up)

Colin Fisher: Autism, depression

Vincent Nigel-Murray: AuDHD, anxiety, depression

Daisy Wick: Audhd, anxiety, dyspraxia, BPD

Finn Abernathy- PTSD

Oliver Wells- autism, NPD

Jessica Warren- ADHD

James Aubrey- ADHD, PTSD

Karen Delfs- ADHD

[snakeautistic]

I love finding characters I can relate (/project onto) within media. There’s something so comforting about seeing yourself on screen. I end up headcanoning most of them to be in-line with my identities (lesbian, wasian, autistic) because they are literally me in my head!!

Anyway here’s a long ass list of my favorite characters and why I head canon them as autistic for fun!! If you have any others you’d like to add I’d love to hear them. (And please note this is just my interpretation, and highly based on my experience with autism. I’m not saying they’re definitely autistic or that all the traits I listed are the dsm-5 criteria or something.)

Princess Bubblgeum from adventure time:

This girl is peak evil scientist autistic. Her intense need for control, the way she carefully observes the citizens she created, an outsider to them, not quite like them… god it’s so perfect. I read her as being somewhat low empathy as well, it’s hard for her to change her perspective to that of others. Plus the fact her brother neddy is a pretty obvious metaphor for higher supports needs autism. I think they of represent how autism runs in the family and appears in all sorts of different ways in different people. They’re sort of two different representations of the spectrum.

Marcy wu from amphibia

I mean this one is just obvious. The biggest nerd of all time. So obsessed with her RPG special interest that she literally sucks her and her friends into a fantasy world. She’s clumsy (just like me fr), very smart but super socially awkward, a little oblivious and naive. She’s terrified of change, especially if it means abandoning the few social bonds she’s been able to make. I honestly find it hard to believe this wasn’t intentional.

Entrapta from she-ra

Another pretty overt example. I do have some issues with how she was portrayed in the show- (keeping her on a leash was weird.) but overall I really love her. She understands her tech, not people, and it can cause her to come into conflict with other characters. Their treatment of her makes me sad at times, but it’s realistic. I also love some of her other quirks, her love of tiny food, her exitable demeanor, ect.

Pearl from Steven Universe

Peridot is the more obvious example of an autistic character in SU, and while I agree she’s coded that way, I personally resonate more with Pearl. She is not very socially aware, and bothered by disruptions to her routine/ broader life changes. She doesn’t like to break rules (despite being a literal rebel lol.) I find it interesting how she seems to have the poorest understanding of life on earth out of the gems, despite having lived here for thousands of years. She is graceful, but has an almost sort of awkward gangly-ness to her that I relate to. Her neuroticism is also very similar to how my anxiety disorder presents.

Pearl has a tendency to infodump, without realizing those around her are uninterested. Even her relationship with Rose struck a chord with me. The hopeless devotion to her, the way she followed along at her side. It’s how many of my friendships have been. Obvious it’s not exactly the same considering Pearl having originally been her servant, but while not being an explicitly autistic trait, that sort of clingy, starstruck relationship is something autistic people are prone to developing. She does little hand stims at times too that I love to see.

Poison Ivy (specifically the version in the Harley Quinn animated show)

I’m surprised I haven’t seen more people mention poison Ivy. Fiercely intelligent and deeply introverted, she isolates herself from all people, and only connects with and understands her plants. (Which her deep affinity for can definitely be read as a special interest.) She very overtly has trouble forming relationships with others.

She’s blunt, socially awkward and a loner, has something of a flat effect and a monotone voice. Those around her initially read her as cold and impersonable.Her struggle with social anxiety as well as intense fear of failure/ low self esteem is also very relatable to me. She also often struggles to express/understand her feelings and emotions. Her radical political ideas and the fact that she’s literally an ecoterrorist paints her as having a very strong sense of justice and a somewhat black and white worldview. (Me)

Finally, her relationship with Harley just SCREAMS neurodivergent solidarity. Harley Quinn is (I think canonically) adhd, and they’re both outsiders in the world that found each other and just… get each other. She’s Ivy’s closest and only friend and amazing girlfriend and god it’s all so perfect.

They remind me a lot of the relationship I have with my best friend with adhd except theirs is gayer.

[theberriesncream]

Look at me dead in the eyes... and tell me, this man is Neurotypical

WRONG!

[prankprincess123]

It is vital to my perception of their characters that Link is *selectively mute* *un-breaking stare because eye contact is 'important'* *doesn't even realize there was a social cue for him to miss* autistic, while Ravio is *nervous babbling about special interest* *bunny hat over eyes so he doesn't have to make eye contact* *pretends he didn't miss all the social cues and definitely broke that social norm on purpose* autistic, and Zelda is *rambling incessantly about hyperfixation of the week* "I wonder what's this red button do!?" *stares at painting & dissociates into daydream for hours unmoving* ADHD, while Hilda is *no articulatable thoughts just always internally screaming* "...maybe I shouldn't have pressed the red button..." *vibrating out of her skin with anxiety at being expected to stay still for even a second* ADHD.

[trans-hua-cheng-agenda]

Hua Cheng stimming by playing with the bead in his hair. It’s both a stim and a comfort item

Xie Lian is the same way with the ring

[eddies-spaghetti]

Todoroki siblings recolors

[howlsofbloodhounds]

I like to think that Killer has a special interest in cats and felines in general. So whenever he’s yapping in all the fics and the POV character tunes him out, I imagine he’s actually telling this person every fun fact about cats, lions, tigers, panthers, any feline creature he can think of, telling them things such as lion pride dynamics, the speed of a cheetah, the jaw strength of a jaguar. Snow leopard adaptions and fishing cats. All about the purring mechanism. A feline’s anatomy.

[dandysworldhcs]

Because of the fact they were originally cartoon characters (which tend to have exaggerated personalities), a lot of the Toons end up being neurodivergent and/or mentally ill when put in the real world.

This definitely isn't just an explanation for all the neurodivergent headcanons I have about them. Not at all.

- Fishbowl anon

yesss there all neurodivergent *i rub my hands together evily* (this is not me projecting idk what ur talking about)

[spro-o]

Lev. listen. LSITEN. ADHD Lancelot. FLAPPY HANDS. that boy is so nerodivergent do you see the vision. LEV HE'S SO SILLY

yes,,, yes he is very much the stimmy kinda guy,,, he just like me fr 🥹

my comms are open!!

[ultimate-marysue]

A surprisingly funny part of the fic I'm writing is "accidental neurodivergent on neurodivergent violence" where Jason and Tim put each other in the most overstimulating/uncomfortable/triggering situations without noticing because they have different needs. Neither of them know they might be neurodivergent, both suspect the other of being though.

It's just lots of Jason going: Oh, Tim's a bit... You know. Better make sure he doesn't get cold, I don't want him to get upset!

Meanwhile Tim's sweating through three layers of clothes and about to cry because he's just too warm: This is what hell must feel like.

But also

Tim: do you know this dead child?

Jason, who's seeing his own corpse superimposed on the photo followed by a carousel of his siblings' faces: uuuh, maybe?

[foggythefandomgremlin]

I told my therapist that I got neurodivergent vibes from Sabre and she said she did aswell

NEURODIVERGENT SABRE IS THERAPIST APPROVED

[snakeautistic]

When you consume a new piece of media and you just KNOW this one character is autistic but you can’t find anyone else talking about it online and you start to feel insane

[fleeglefazbeagle]

Behold, a design ref for Mortality/Prezzy in my AU(well, the animatronic design)!

Context here: 🎁

Design details:

•Has a detachable wind-up key on his back.

•Built in music box.

•Light-up eyes, cheeks and nose.

•Voice mimicry.

•Bells as guidance for the visually impaired.

•Facial recognition (think FNAF 2).

•PROTECT system.

•Tongue makes a party horn sound to somewhat resemble a raspberry.

•Nose can honk.

•Extremely flexible.

•Top surgery scars(technically).

(Trivia under cut. TW for mentions of death.)

Trivia:

•Is Polygender, genderfluid, xenogender, transneu(AFAB), gender apathetic, panromantic, demiromantic, apothisexual and poly(2 partners specifically).

°Pronouns are he/she/it/they/xe/rot/🎁/heart/honk/💕/plush/doll.

•Has AuDHD, PTSD, BPD, schizophrenia, depressive disorder, checking OCD.

°Is an agere and petdre(particularly babyre and kittendre).

•Acts cat-like despite being a rabbit.

•Goofy but messed up little bastard./aff

•Refers to Jeremy Basefield(the creator) as "Dada" and Ortensia Basefield(the creator's wife) as "Mommy".

°Pize(the wind-up toy) refers to Mortality as "Dada" which when this first happened, he(Mortality) got emotional mainly due to Pize reminding him of himself during the beginning.

•Was really shy when it was first activated but slowly and surely became more social.

•Really scared of losing loved ones especially due to the October 22nd incident of 1986 as well as Jeremy's death.

•Plush strictly kills bad people.

•She stresses rather easily and is a little stubborn depending on who xir dealing with.

•He's super affectionate towards folks they like.

•Despises Santa deniers, bullies and killjoys.

•Rot has a feminine side to him as well as a childish side.

•Glimmer Bunny is practically Mortality's little sister who he loves dearly.

•It still has Lily's plushie, Daisy.

•Likes to mess with people's heads depending on the situation.

•Capable of shape shifting.

•Has wings due to gaining supernatural abilities but barely uses said wings.

°He uses the tentacles a bit more frequently than the wings.

•Voiced by a man named Michael Watermyer.

•Married to Jolly and Pumpkin Rabbit.