#wylan van eck autistic

[achildfullofwoe]

Me: I don't have a taste in comfort characters what????

The comfort characters in question:

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Wylan: *on the verge of a mental breakdown*

Jesper: Why dont you make a list of some kind? Or organise things into categories? Ooh floor time!

Wylan:

Wylan: I love you

Jesper: Knew that would do the trick

[wylanslcve]

When will we start acknowledging that Wylan suggesting to wake the unconscious guards up before killing them isn't actually ruthlessness but blunt logic because he's taken Jesper's "I'm not big on killing unconscious men" at face value and responds accordingly since he has a very literal thinking pattern? When will we start acknowledging that this is autism?

[wylanspipebomb]

jack wolfe really took wylan and said “make that bitch autistic” and i will always love them for that

[dasiesanddarkness]

okay but Wylan's love language is gifts because he is Kerch and to give someone something without expecting anything in return is like the epitome of love to him.

Jesper realizes this and will bring him random little things (a cool rock. a flower. sheet music he saw in a store. an old ring he doesnt wear anymore but thinks Wylan would like. a shirt he thought would look good on him. a little trinket he made him), but Wylan always ends up bringing him something in return to make up for it, and it frustrates Jesper endlessly. he just wants to give him things to show he loves him, but Wylan insists on giving him things back. It gets so bad that they have to promise to only give one gift a day, and that they have to go back and forth with it. they have an endless supply of stuff in their house.

it's even worse with Kaz, Inej, and Nina because he doesn't see them as often. Kaz will walk in to something sitting on his desk and just know it's from Wylan. every time Inej comes back to Ketterdam there's like a million new things in her room in their house. Nina gets packages sent once a month filled with things. and they have no way of stopping him because he has the funds to do this, and also no one ever actually sees him collecting them, they always just kinda... show up.

and there are always a thousand little things out in the backyard under an M carved into the wood of a tree

[nine-is-not-a-ten]

wylan: guys... im autistic

literally everyone: woah! really???? no way!!!! thats crazy! omg!!! had no idea!!!!!

kaz: motherfucker please

[asexualenjolras]

"Wylan Van Eck isn't canonically autistic so you shouldn't be putting labels onto him."

Um? He's also not "canonically dyslexic" - as you say - because that term is never used in the show but there's no doubt at all that he's severely dyslexic.

Most people that are saying this just don't like the idea of a character they like being on the spectrum, and I find that to be a real problem. He's a very heavily autistic-coded character, and he is canonically disabled. We can put labels on a character that we relate to. As an autistic person, I heavily relate to Wylan. His characterisation felt very authentic.

Jack Wolfe's portrayal of Wylan is very autistic, and telling an autistic person that they shouldn't see themselves in his behaviour is just ableist - I'm tired.

This is a series set in a fantasy universe, they're hardly going to use terminology like ours to describe behaviours. Wylan just is autistic, just as he is dyslexic. He canonically has all of the traits of both. Just because the terms aren't used in canon, it doesn't mean the disabilities aren't there for disabled fans to relate to.

Wylan being autistic doesn't erase his dyslexia because the two are co-morbid and do co-exist.

He stims, he info-dumps about his special interests, he has difficulty socialising, he struggles to make eye contact, he doesn't know how to express his feelings vocally, he bounces when he walks, he carries his comfort bag and clutches onto its handles when he's nervous, he has sensory issues and is shown to cover his ears, he has bad posture and he struggles to read other people's emotions but feels empathy so deeply.

He also has those autistic t-rex arms, as shown here:

This boy is autistic.

Stop telling disabled fans to stop relating to disabled characters - it's gross.

[zoyalaisobachka]

I'm wondering if it was intentional or coincidence that Wylan and David are so autistic coded. Just like Jesper is very ADHD coded.

[timtwylan]

met jack wolfe for the 3rd time today and i love him so much, and the way he perceives wylan is just so right and extremely similar to mine, we always have the best conversations, i just love him

[life-o-n-m4rs]

nothing like hyperfixating on a book that came out almost 10 years ago with a dead fandom anyways here’s the sketch for a Wylan drawing i’m working on rn

[achildfullofwoe]

everyone say thank you to jack wolfe for not only making wylan incredibly neurodivergent but also a badass

[one-squash-one-end]

Jesper got ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and Wylan got ADHD (A Damn Horrible Dad)

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Wylan: I often have compassion for inanimate objects. For example, if I'm about to refill the teabag tin & there's one in there, I'll put the lone teabag on the top of the pile to make sure it's used next, as it's that teabag's turn

Jesper: Adding this to the extensive list of endearing things about you

[mooonbae]

[ my favorite neurodivergent coded characters 10/♾️ ]

[conniferab]

@wesperweek2023 day 7: apocalypse au

[kazcreates]

Kaz Brekker Character Analysis

As a member of an AuDHD OSDD system, it was only a matter of time before I wrote a paper on my own personal headcanons. A research paper. I wrote this at the same time as my Junior Research Paper last year, and it actually ended up being longer than my JRP. Anyhow, here it is: my in-depth character analysis of Kaz Brekker and my personal headcanons for him, as supported with “evidence” from the Six of Crows novel.