"Potraying Dick as a huge slut who's always getting put into fanservice is actually progressive because it normalizes casual sex and is gender equality because female characters get potrayed that way too!!!"I mean sure but i feel like we could prove those same points with a male character who's NOT a multiple time r*pe survivor of color that's gotten victim blamed for at least one his assault's and has been coded as demisexual with a discomfort towards sexual looseness for himself since the 80s anyway

Battinson adopting a hyper Gen-Alpha Dick Grayson who acts like a little terror 90% of the time but is also 90% of Bruce’s will to live so he gets away with everything

Battinson: um excuse you, my son is an angel and can do no wrong

Dick, who was just about to Nerf Bruce in the back of the head: yeah! I’m a pleasure

Tim Drake, Caffein and ADHD

Ok so, I know Tim is a coffee/energy drink addict (not sure if this is cannon or not but i don't really care). I was thinking about this a few days ago while thinking about my own ADHD relationship to stimulants/caffein.

What if Tim Drake is not addicted to caffein because he is trying to stay awake. He for sure has insomnia but what if its unrelated to the caffein?

What if he has undiagnosed and therefor untreated ADHD? His thoughts run a thousand miles a minute and he uses caffein to slow his thoughts down long enough to make sense of.

His parents were never around to see the signs. By the time he's Robin he's figured out how to self medicate with coffee. Dick (who is also hella ADHD) kicks himself for not noticing it. While Dick's ADHD presents as hyperactivity, Tim's presents in him being unable to regulate his focus. This is not in the "I can't pay attention way" that most people think of but the "I will hyper-focus on this thing to the point that I will forget to eat, sleep, drink, use the restroom etc" way.

Eventually someone figures out that he's got ADHD and he gets on the proper stimulants, (Adderall, Ritalin or Vyvance) and gets him on a good sleep med for insomnia and he slowly starts drinking less coffee because he doesn't need to anymore.

IDK just ADHD Tim Drake

I see your “Dick has adhd” headcanon and I raise you “Dick has adhd and struggles with adhd paralysis, burnout and other actual adhd problems”

Okay look, I like long haired Nightwing as much as the next person, but everyone in his life was very relieved when he started wearing his hair shorter, because you know he chewed on that shit. Split ends & dried saliva meant by the end of a day where Dick had nothing else to distract him, his hair was crunchy in places. More than once, he’d be wrestling with his younger brothers, one of them would get a face or a hand full of hair, and recoil shrieking because it was wet. Someone would call his name, and he’d look up only to have a delayed realization and spit out the lock of hair in his mouth. Bruce unendingly lectured Dick on the risk of leaving DNA evidence at scenes, both in the form of lost hair and the spit in that hair. Stop chewing on your hair, Dick! You’re up to like 3 showers a day, and it’s still nasty!

Then one day, he came over with hair that barely reached his ears, and everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief.

What's "rejection sensitive dysphoria???

Im glad you asked actually. Its this thing a lot of people with adhd and stuff get a lot of the time. It basically means that little things like basic rejections affect your mood a lot more!

The tiniest criticism can feel like someone just told you that your life is worthless and they hope your dog dies. 😕

It can lead to a lot of bullying esp in young kids. Its part of why a lot of adhd people put so much pressure on themselves.

I don’t have access to resources needed, but I need to or someone needs to draw Batman as the tbh creature, and Dick Grayson Robin as the btw creature.

Duke: This is like that lightbulb thing.

Dick: What lightbulb thing?

Duke: Okay question: do you have easy access to a lightbulb?

Dick: .....no.

Duke: Becuase if you do, I feel like I shouldn't tell you this because ADHD means impulse control not good.

Dick: I'm so curious about where this is going.

Duke: It's just the thing where you can put a lightbulb in your mouth, but you can't get it back out without breaking the glass.

Dick: Ohhhhh. You know, I reckon I could get it out.

Duke: Dick, no.

my brain got activated and well Dick Grayson time hoes

hear me out, adhd Dick Grayson would've probably fucking hated reading as a kid especially for school because that requires a lot of focus and remembering and huge blocks of text which would be horrible to read because he would get stuck on a sentence reading it over and over or accidentally skipping around the page and having to start over. along with English not being his first language, it would probably make the experience even worse because its also frustrating  as hell trying to translate while struggling to even read a paragraph while everyone else seems to breeze on by. and like maybe this dislike of reading long and large documents continues on, maybe part of the reason he dropped out was it was too much too fast, maybe he learns to like fun reading after he leaves school and can read at his own pace, maybe he only likes reading academic texts, maybe he has a set type of novel he likes to read. I feel like either that or maybe one day reading clicks for him and he loves it until he doesn't. or maybe hes more of a math kid, maybe he likes the way problems have solutions, maybe it just clicks. maybe he hyper fixates on what hes good at school wise, maybe he’s forced himself to read faster for vigilante stuff. maybe he doesn't read for pleasure because the feelings of frustration and anxiety from school taint books and long readings. maybe he uses a text to speech app for long texts, maybe he cant type out thoughts, maybe he uses voice to text. maybe he can type, maybe he just cant get what he really wants to say in words, maybe he feels so much and so deep about things he can’t get them out of his throat and all the things he wants to say stagnate, maybe he says too much maybe he says what he meant to hold onto to, maybe he just wants to explode.

I'm not against the 'Dick Grayson is a ray of sunshine' trope if it's done CORRECTLY because it has evidence in canon-Yeah,Dick IS very sweet and silly and nurturing,it comes with being a good eldest sibling speaking as an irl one-but the fandom always uses it to infantalize him and it feels so condesending and insulting to me as someone who's a lot like him and finds him extremely relatable????It feels so much like a desperate attempt to force the 'kind means naive' mentality onto him and that's just not true when it comes to him.Dick is a genius who's helped saved the world many,MANY times with his smarts and he's got so much trauma that he all but explicitly has ptsd,possibly depression and maybe even more mental illnesses and him actively choosing to be nice to others and have a big sense of fun does NOT mean he's stupid.Stop treating him like he dosen't know anything or can't take of himself,he's a grown ass man with a husband and wife and kids and everything,not a doofus teenage boy!!Y'all are so mean to him and for what smfh

Bruce, slumped in a chair: "Alfred it's so insane, he just doesn't stop. Yesterday he broke his ankle and he's back in those goddamn pixie boots with 'extra supports' like that fucking does anything-"

Alfred, stirring sedatives into the tea he's making Bruce: "Oh my."

Bruce: "-I just don't know what to do. He needs to take a break, holy shit that much anger can't be good for a child, and don't even get me started on the coping mechanisms Alfred, they're unhinged-"

Alfred, looking up with a tight smile: "You don't say. Sugar, Master Bruce?"

Bruce, dragging a hand down his face: "-and let me tell you, I don't know where he gets his energy because he hasn't slept in two days! Two days! I was impressed when he first got here, but now I'm just concerned-"

Alfred, handing the tea to Bruce: "Understandable, sir. Anyone in your position would be."

Bruce, nearly choking on the tea: "Alfred, Alfred, I'm so dumb--the lack of sleep must be getting to me-- just spike his orange juice with sleep meds. Child doses of Nyquil or something. Yeah, that'll do it."

Alfred, watching Bruce drain the cup: "I couldn't agree with you more."

Damian: [violent gremlin noises]

Bruce: [not looking up from his desk] if you kill your brother I will delete your cheese Viking save.

Damian: [Stops immediately] >:(

Duke: I’m still amazed that you are not phased by all of the out of pocket things we do.

Bruce: [looking directly at Dick] I was sent into the deep end from the beginning I had to either sink or swim.

Dick: 😅

Duke: what did you do?

Robin!Dick: Hey Bruce! Heeey Bruce I have a question! Bruuuuuce!

Bruce: can you ask me a question without climbing onto my shoulders?

Robin!dick: you love me right?

Bruce: yes?

Robin!dick: would you still love me if I became an apple?

Bruce: ???

Robin!dick: because sometimes I think it would be fun for like a day.

Bruce:… how would I know it was you?

Robin!dick: [grabbing Bruce’s face] Promise me you would find a way to turn me into a real boy again!

Bruce: …okay

Robin!dick: yay! Do you think Uncle Clark will be upset if I ask him to throw me again today?

Bruce: give it a week

the batfam as things i and others have said pt 2

jason talking about his death: everyone has bad days, everyone gets blown up sometimes

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tim: dad, how old are you?

bruce: old enough

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dick: the moon is in a phase

tim: what is it, emo?

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jason talking about tims mental state: its being held together with zip ties and a dream

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steph when a bat appears: i hate when men do that… appear out of thin air

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bruce, deadpan: i was gonna say who has a mobile number (police number) but it’s the police

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tim talking about wifi: it keeps dropping out

jason: of high school?

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bruce: are you on something?

little dick: FREEDOM

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tim after scrolling on tumblr for too long: teenagers relate to murder

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dick after fighting slade too many times: he’s always down to kill kids and i respect that

What is it like to have ADHD ?

Usually alright, but I get so absorbed in things that I tend to lose track of time. Also, I have really bad rejection sensitive dysphoria.

Jason: Okay, you wanna be productive, what makes you productive?

Dick: ...my ADHD medication?