#neuropsychology of michelangelo

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Congratulations to myself for completing forgetting that I wrote this.

wait what other terrying stuff did Mike do?? I can't recal any specific ones?

i’m gonna be late for work really quick here so this’ll be brief and without much citation for now.

but like, right off in the very first episode mikey meets a ‘human’ guy in an alleyway, and what does he do? he nearly gouges the guy’s eyes out. this was actually a kraang robot suit, so it was fine, but yo, if it hadn’t been?

and there were a bunch of little things, kinda day to day, in terms of how lackadaisical he is about a lot of stuff? like, oh they’re in the middle of yet another deadly battle. great time to start laughing in someone’s face. really not unnerving or anything (but this goes for majority mikeys throughout the iterations).

factor in that also, when it comes down to things, mikey is the better ninja in his family, even over Favorite Son/Student leo- demonstrated by that one scene where leo was in full mystic ninja mode (arguably the mode when they’re at their peak skill) and mikey not only got right behind leo without his brother noticing and grabbed him around the face and chest, but mikey had been shadowing leo like that since he left the lair. all without ever being sensed by the brother who’s they’re leader.

plus, the whole fact that he picked up an ancient disc thing, stuck its pieces back together with bubblegum, and just kinda. told the demon to stfu and stop killing people. literally no one else had even gotten the thing to respond even slightly- not even april, who is their most powerful member by the end of the series- and mikey barely held it a few seconds before he figured out how to use it.

this is all out of order but the whole dimension-x thing too, beyond him wearing an enemy soldier as a hat. none of his brothers- not even donnie, who’d been studying the dimension and usually has some inkling of how to cope with a new situation- could’ve survived in d-x as easily as mikey did. and he didn’t just survive for however long he was there (days, weeks, months?), he thrived in the hostile territory of the dimension. he had fun, running around in a world that has no ceiling or ground, is filled with flora and fauna that actively tries to kill you, and not to mention has an occupying sentient race that wants nothing more than to kill him and all of earth.

so yeah. it’s a lot of things, built up over time, that make 2012 mikey a rather scary individual. i’d specify more but i really do have to get to work.

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Okay, TMNT Fandom.

I saw a post by a young fan saying that the Ninja ninja Turtles were now as old as their parents at forty. So I'd like to know who else is as old as or older than the ninja turtles franchise.

I'll start: in 1984 I was five years old. I saw the cartoon in 1988 and fell in love and I'm still there, in love. It's really deep. I don't think I can climb out.

Goobers.

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mikey ask game: 6 and 13!!

6. do you have any mikey-centric fic recommendations? (including any your wrote!)

Wellll... I wrote Mikey and Mikey only and all my Bookmarks are Mikey fics sooo

13. what’s something about mikey that nobody seems to talk about that should be talked about more?

I think I have rambled on at length about that since 2017, and a LOT of people have either picked it up or had very similar ideas, but we really really need to get rid of this lasting idea that Mikey is The Stupid Turtle. Hell, online search results still auto fill it. I know I spent over twenty years pushing the 'Mikey Is ADHD and Autistic and emotionally intelligent' headcanon but alongside it I kept begging the fandom to write fics where Mikey isn't being dunked on as the team class clown or adorable moron.

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Closing out 2022 and this is still true.

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Okay, so now that more of us understand that with ADHD, the rampant inconsistencies are a huge part of the disability, ie executive dysfunction and dyspraxia and time blindness and hyperfocus yada yada yada, I'm going to dig back through all my Mikey And His ADHD posts to spot times I talked about his rejection sensitivity frustration moments. Especially 2003, who didn't get much screen time when it came to exploring the hidden depths behind the goofiness. In this essay I

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I think people mistake confidence with arrogance. At least that’s what I think (I am referring to the anon who said people think you have a complex) you are an activist they see the word activist they think oh that woman is arrogant they judge you before they get to know you which sucks. I find your takes intriguing and thought provoking.

You're correct, that's what it's about. I've also been told that I come across as not worth bullying. It's hard to chip away at someone who has spent decades learning how to shield properly, who has already chipped away at themselves, opening up their vulnerable sides, showing people that they've already gone through the process of self scorn and come out with a stronger sense of self, knowing that things will keep growing and changing.

Let's take that down its obvious path to 2003 Mikey, whose confidence has always been mistaken for arrogance and brattiness and asshole behavior. He's a person who is already in touch with what he wants. That can come across as him being callous, insensitive, unknowingly insulting. But he's got a lot of generosity, kindness, understanding, hyperempathy, an uncanny ability to soothe emotional turmoil.

In fact, a wonderful fanfic by our archivist @hummerhouse explored Mikey's capacity for acceptance, his lack of greed for big things, how he's satisfied enough to know all he needs is his loved ones, his family being safe and together and able to chill out and not worry about being hunted, perhaps to sit in the sun with them and bask.

(The Last Ronin strips that from him like being flayed alive, isn't that fascinating?)

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audhd mikey will be CANON in tottmnt ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Yes it will! Yes it will!

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@sacredartist33013 @dysfunctional-doodle look what I found in my own blog. Y'all are welcome to play around.

TFW when you’re woken up from a nap, from a really good dream in which your fictional characters are having a wonderful fluff after angst bonding moment, by a message on your phone from a stranger on the internet who thinks you and other “loud pushy autistic activist people should be locked up in psych institutions” so that the stranger and other abled neurotypicals can Internet without being advocated at. I wonder if I should tell him that I’ve done this exact song and dance a few dozen times, because he’s so confident he’s unique and special in his asswaffle yelling.

Fuck it, I’m getting a snack and then I’m going back to bed.

And then when I wake up, I’m going to Write.

I’m gonna write more of my TMNT 2018 Empath Mikey fic that started with a dream* especially that scene where the boys are hugging each other after they overheard some humans hating on mutants and Mikey was too empathic do deal with it and Raphie picked him up and snuggled him until they got to April’s place and then everyone had a slumber party. And Mikey discovers nifty ESP things he can do because of the head trauma. That will be fun, I love the Rise boys so much. You know how I talk about the Ninja Turtles being my coping mechanism friends? It really helps me not want to punch everyone who dislikes my brain wiring.

*(*Damn it I still need a title)

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Michelangelo Proved He's Actually TMNT’s Smartest Turtle

...and Michelangelo is a party dude. Based on those personality traits– which have more-or-less been held up through the ages– one would assume that the smartest Turtle on the team is Donatello, since he does the machines (obviously), with Leonardo being a close follow-up as leadership of a ninja clan presumably requires intelligence. In fact, the last Turtle fans should expect to be the smartest is Michelangelo since ‘party dudes’ are notorious for being immature and making poor decisions–but in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.

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Watch "tmnt 2003 mikey bio" on YouTube

Mikey out-ninjaing his family, by the way.

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I'm not woobifying him so much as cracking him open, seeing what's the best way to mess with his psychology, and shooting a confetti canon at him from all angles. It's still going to hurt, but that's what cracking jokes is for.

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They're Mutants So Human Rules Don't Really Apply | Archive of Our Own

Am I really the only one with tags like that in the TMNT AO3 fandom?

Good thing I'm also under 'Autistic Michelangelo' and 'Michelangelo Has ADHD'. I don't think that was even a thing until a few years ago.

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The Path/Transcript | TMNTPedia | Fandom

[Splinter sits on a chair in the center of a room. There are bookcases on either side of him filled with books and both books and scrolls are stacked around the chair. His walking stick leans against a stack of those books, and in one hand he holds a lily, in the other he holds nunchaku.]

Splinter "Lonely warrior, your path is difficult. Should we strive to be as cold-hearted as our worst enemy? Like your mighty brothers, you too are a warrior born and trained. You, though, are not as steely-edged as may be required... You follow your heart on a broken, curving road to uncertain destinations. Even so, there may still be balance for you. Will you choose wisely? With compassion? Or will you think only of yourself? We shall see."

He's talking about Mikey, by the way. Mikey is the lotus.

And then his cat dies in his arms. But he adopts one of the kittens, Klunk II.

@remmushound this is what's happening in the astral plane with the Multiverse Memories movie screen. Bayverse Splinter has some Feelings to sort through.

Ooooh, I should find the issue of City At War where The Rat King shows up during Splinter's hallucinogens, and Splinter is given a This Is Why You Suck trope speech about why he won't reach nirvana. Haha burn.

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Favorite version Of Mikey

Uhhhhhhlhhmmmm

I need to think about this.

(I mean, there's the Mikey in my head who's cobbled together out of all of them.)

I'd say IDW is my favorite, because he's so clearly a blend of Mirage, Archie, 1990, and 2003. And Kevin himself made him.

Rise Mikey is a very very close second.

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@genius11rare this fic!

If you ever feel like you don't contribute to fandom because you "only" comment—

A regular serial commenter just joined a fandom Discord server I'm on and people are coming out of the woodwork to thank her for her service to the fandom, expressing how much joy her comments on their works bring them.

Remember—they're never only comments.