I realise I have a type and it's socially awkward, non-human characters that are very knowledgeable in their field but would probably end up grovelling at their feet and cry trying to figure out how a modern fridge works . Bonus points if they're in desperate need of a hug

let me know if i missed any.

shoutout 2 this person in my class who i can tell wants 2 talk 2 me really bad but instead of doing that whenever she has the chance she'll talk 2 whoever else is around and ignore me entirely unless im mentioned by name

Drayton just radiates 'I'm an undiagnosed neurodivergent and struggling but everyone thinks I'm lazy/stupid so I just assume I am' vibes.

autistic coded men who have orange cats my beloved

I think we should bring back basic etiquette lessons such as shutting the fuck up when you’re watching a movie in a group that is not exclusively your friend group 🙂

"potentially autistic enough to get regularly assumed some form of neurodivergent including just being asked 'are you autistic' several times from friends and acquaintances, but not obviously potentially autistic enough to ever be evaluated for it" is such an interesting spot to be in

Okay, but like, I absolutely love the subtle detail of Klaus always covering his ears in loud situations. It just means so much to me as an Autistic person with noise sensitivity. It’s not usually something you see unless it’s important to the story or the character. But no, it’s just something that he does, and he’s (usually) the only one that does it, and no one mentions it. 

I also love that he is usually barefoot when he’s inside. I know that it’s probably a wink to his comic book counterpart, but tvshow!Klaus has no explicit reason to be barefoot all the time. And as someone that hates wearing shoes and socks (due to sensory issues), so is usually barefoot, I just love it.

some Hawkes

i kinda think part of why people treat donnie as less caring than he is is like. sometimes not knowing when he's joking? like that time he threatens to be "semi-lethal" when splinter's in the truck with meat sweats. like i'm sure most of you knew he was joking but like. do some of you realise he like, would not have done that? like remember how he was sad? when splinter actually got hurt? same with leo in the movie? and all of them at every other time?

like he's self proclaimed funniest. and also a mad scientist aesthetic doesn't make a character a villain by itself it's what you actually do with that (yes he has done bad things within that area (haunted stare towards mind meld) but you have to admit he like. did fix those. and feel bad and hopefully learn his lesson but hey that's another analysis)

i have mixed feelings on villain donnie stuff, as an example, because like. ANY character put in a situation where they lose their way is really fun and if in character is really interesting as to what could cause that.

but when it's treated as like. inevitable. who he is, or phrasing his brothers are the only thing stopping him being evil. it's like hm. ugh. kind of hurts a bit actually but that's probably because i relate to him ghfdjk

like the seen in snow day with the tech bo chainsaw like. all he really DOES is cut a snowman there but he's just like. leaning into being "evil" with the chainsaw but like he's just being silly with it. acting like that's proof of anything is wild to me, without any other data points.

also kind of separate but i think there's a dissonance between what is like. seen as evil? between me and like most people lol. like the scene in the movie as well with like "finally, man and machine, entwixt in perfect bionic synergy" someone i watched it with was like "haha evil moment" or whatever where i was just like. yeah real that would be rad as hell. honestly gender also.

not saying he's never done anything wrong but i am saying he immediately tries to fix all of those things

anyway he does have a really interesting relationship with morals in my eyes but like, at his core he really cares about people, you know?

this isn't hate to anyone btw i just care about donnie a lot as a character and as really layered autistic representation

my favourite characters are the ones that are so intrinsically fucked up that no matter what universe they are in they can never be truly happy :D

they are also typically either blue or purple

you know that type of male character often featured as the protagonist in action stories but also seen in other genres, who is gruff and stoic and deadpan and generally rather silent, who often doesn't really seem to get the social cues especially humor of those around them? yeah, they're autistic.

I have acquired. Tickets. To an Event.

being the only cousin over 18 that's still single but avoiding questions about it by also being The Mentally Ill cousin so no one expects it from you anyway 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

TBH and Hot Take but sometimes there's posts on tumblr where I'm like "have you actually met neurotypical people?" because there is a lot overlap between types of atypical and the typical, I mean that's kind of a reason people don't get diagnosed with whatever neuroatypical thing they have/are for years if ever. But tumblr occasionally seems to think The Typicals don't have hobbies, let alone obsessions, that they don't enjoy talking about the things they really enjoy, like they don't get anxious or shy or overwhelmed to varying degrees differing from person to person. And some of the "this charater is non-neurotypical" headcanon posts are so aggressive like "they are CLEARLY this thing and if you don't see that you're a fool and probably also ableist. You're also awful if you don't like them for any reason, especially one that I have decided is A Symptom of their thing." I get it, we all project a bit, but tumblr in general does not promote awareness of that projection and willingness to accept that other people are also doing the same thing and coming to different, even opposing, conclusions and they aren't necessarily wrong either.

Just To Be Clear, I don't especially care what someone headcanons about a character as long as they leave me alone to have headcanons of my own and disagree with theirs without being called a bad person or an idiot. You know? And most of us don't carry in our heads a list of traits for conditions/identities/whatever that don't apply to us personally (or at least to someone close to us) so like... no, I don't think so-and-so obviously has ADHD, because I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking for (and frankly I don't *want* people in general going around trying to diagnose each other with things maybe neither of them have based on lists they found on the internet - *that* is potentially incredibly ableist AF) and maybe I just wouldn't see it in them anyway. Cos we don't really all see the same character, do we?

Anyway that's a bee that lives in my bonnet. Tumblr just bothers me sometimes. Specifically tumblr, because I don't see this sort of thing as much in other places.

me looking at a dragon design where its head is just the skull of a crocodile at the end of an elongated neck:

OKAY BUT SEE, without the enormous lump of muscle that sits around the back of their head, just the basic physics of how their jaw leverage works means its bite force would be extremely weak, the way you’ve fit this onto the body means you’re assuming the jaw muscles only occupy the space available INSIDE the skull anatomy and this is less threatening to me than if you had put a different skull on your dragon or honestly just given me a regular crocodile which is already nature’s most terrifying predator but like the art is cool though