I don't believe so many people see Sherlock Holmes as neorotypical. The same Sherlock Holmes who gets bored so easily and yet once he finds something interesting, he will absolutely need to solve it. Sherlock Holmes, who just randomly infodumps on Watson about literal fucking mud, on multiple occasions. Sherlock Holmes who routinely fiddles with his violin and makes discordant noises. The same man who makes leaps of deduction which literally no one else sees, and can only understand when he takes them through every step of his analysis. The one and only Sherlock Holmes who collects random articles about people and hoards things with the vague hope that someday he might need the <insert thing here> again. The Mr. Sherlock "never a very sociable fellow" Holmes? Sherlock Holmes who will not clean his room, and makes up all sorts of excuses to divert Watson's attention, who hates anything being moved from its designated place, who is neat in thought and style, but stabs his letters to the mantelpiece. "He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases..."(The Musgrave Ritual) Anyone? This ring a bell, oh venerated 'Holmes Scholar'? You are telling me people read the books and intentionally come to the conclusion that Sherlock Holmes is absolutely neurotypical and has no neurodivergent tendencies and symptoms at all? That most of these above examples are symptoms of Autism, ADHD, etc. just happens to be a coincidence? Huh. Guess people really are blind when they want to be.
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Part of my growing up undiagnosed ND experience included being a "picky eater" ever since I was little.
So my parents would mince vegetables and such inside meals in order for me to agree to eat it (at least), and yet I would complain saying that I wasn't going to eat because there were zucchini in this, or onions in that. To which my parents would promptly reply: "but we cut it so small! It's just in little pieces! You can't even taste it!"
Then parent, riddle me this: if I couldn't taste it, what even is the point of putting it inside the dish? Checkmate.
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sometimes i don’t think i even know myself. do i actually want something or do i want to want it? it’s a mindfuck.
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Okay as I'm looking around the set for Josh's room I'm noticing
- a Cage the Elephants poster (nice)
- a lot of little black squares with an "r" on it in the Biotic Wars font
- a Halo poster
- he was streaming on Twitch and APPERANTLY STILL IS WHEN HE STARTS JERKING OFF WHAT (I think that was just the set having a still image in the computer but wow what a thing to just. Have)
- Battlestar Galactica poster
- litterally three of the SAME. EXACT. FLANNEL thrown around his room
- Vinyls under his side table, with a vinyl player on top
- just like. Trash all over his side table (realistic, coming from someone who has a gamer brother)
- Red Bull cans
- Several posters I am having a harder time identifying
- just a poster of the solar system
- big ass Master Chief figure (I'm pretty sure it's Master Chief)
- A globe
- Something that LOOKS like a Wii but is distinctly NOT a Wii (might be another console I'm just not recognizing)
- some frankly terrible wire management
- What appears to be a Back to The Future poster (I should try and count all the BTTF references)
- Also his Twitch user seems to be FutturH[unclear]
- BOTTLE ROCKET
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Idea
reader: *stimming*
Shadow Milk Cookie: Omg! What is that? That looks fun! Entertaining, even!
*instert both of them stimming*
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Biting the bars of my enclosure about autistic ford tonight. There's something about him using vocabulary and turns of phrase that seem "outdated" or "pretentious" that feels so painfully genuine to me. When people say he talks like that just to "try to sound smart" I wish I could explain what it's like to be so ostracized from your peers growing up that you spend all your time reading instead, to the point where you pick up your way of speaking from books instead of from people. And then what it's like for people to call you out for "talking weird" over and over again, not able to wrap their heads around why the fuck you would choose more archaic or technical or formal words than the simpler ones that surely come to everyone's minds first. What it's like to have to dedicate a sizable chunk of attention to filtering through every single word you say out loud in real time before you say it, to make absolutely sure that it isn't a word people will judge you for using or make fun of you for using, just so you'll have a chance of being taken seriously. Learning through trial and error how to filter out the words that other people don't think are normal or casual enough for the conversation, even though for you, the word choice that's "natural-sounding" enough for them is the third or fourth word you came up with when searching for the right way to phrase something in your head. I wish I could explain just how long it takes to say fucking anything after spending a lifetime doing that during every single conversation, and how repetitive and long-winded you end up being when you spend so long coming up with alternative ways of saying every little thing you ever think. And I wish people realized that, at the very least for autistic people and autistic-coded characters, speech that's seen as pretentious is really just the way they talk when they're not putting in the extra effort to filter through every word they say just so others will take the time to listen.
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