#i hc him as neurodivergent

[dykerys]

I think I have a different perspective on what Theo's personality is like compared to fanon. Like, I see fics where he's aggressive and super assertive, but I just can't see him like that??? To me he is so calm and indifferent. Like, he's sarcastic and a little shit (/affectionate), but he's also the kind of person who has a very "yeah I don't fucking care for this, I'll will just stand here on my own" personality

#i hc him as neurodivergent #not sure about what neurodivergence per se #but comparing theo from the 6a-6b with the one from 5 season #i feel like that whole sociable and outgoing personality was just a mask #yes i only started all this because to me theo + masking makes sense #i don't think this has anything to do with the post itself #i just wanted to say neurodivergent! theo rights #theo raeken #teen wolf

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.

#mlp #yeah i wrote this last night during insomnia. #yeah i know an embarrassing amount of crap about this kids show #but whatever it's my hyperfixation i'll store as much useless information as i want!!! #i'm gay and neurodivergent i have an excuse #in case you needed more proof that aj's my favorite character #personal #delete later #unless you like this analysis stuff #i get why they didn't reveal aj's parent's death until way later and why they didn't do much with it but i wish they did #cuz narratively there could've been so much material with aj's grief. like. i feel like we gloss over the fact that she lost her #mother and father as a teenager #i tried keeping my personal hcs out of this to keep it unbiased #but i'll put some in the tags #involving rarijack –– i think aj can be (but not always) very self-conscious about her relationship with rarity #anxieties that she's not the right fit or that rarity will move away and leave her some day or that another woman will take her attention #(like in rollercoaster of friendship?? nudge nudge??). basic seperation anxiety stuff #long post #regarding applebloom whenever i think about her and her parents i think about that scene in steven universe where steven looks up at #a portrait of his mother and openly wonders what kind of sack lunches she would've made for him. that episode still fucks me up

[quietwingsinthesky]

thinking about how dean’s character gets simplified in fandom, or more specifically, the very black and white lens that gets applied to him. because integral to dean, from my point of view, is that he is both a victim of abuse and a perpetrator of it. that these two things do not cancel each other out or outweigh each other to the point that only one matters. he’s both, you cannot separate him from the fact that he’s both.

but very often, people do. dean is either a victim. or he’s an abuser. it’s like it’s hard for people to hold both those facts in their heads at once. dean went through incredible amount of trauma as a child and an adult, is routinely faced with violence, has resorted to alcohol abuse to cope with it. he’s also a violent person, someone who retreats into tactics of emotional abuse and control when he feels threatened, who hurts the people around him constantly and the people who are closest to him (ie Sam, Cas, later Jack) get the brunt of that abuse. these are just facts. they’re things that happened on the screen and cannot be denied.

and it’s. idk it’s weird to me (not unexpected, because he’s hardly the only character to ever get this treatment) that dean of all people is the one portrayed in such an either/or way when one of the defining moments of the show for him is that during his stint in Hell, he was tortured and then became a torturer to escape that, to feel like he had some control again, and he relished in it. it’s baked into who he is.

#dean as a victim of abuse who goes on to continue those behaviors is still important to me surprise surprise #i didnt want to put this in the main post but also. from observation. when people start projecting onto him This Gets Worse #because. you know. as noted before: big fandom - lots of queer & neurodivergent people here. #tend to be targetted by abuse. statistically. #and mix that with a character you can project heavily upon. one you can project queer/neurodivergent hcs on even. #then like! understandably stressful to reckon with him being canonically kind of shitty sometimes! no one wants to consider their own #potential for shittiness - not even through a character they just heavily relate to! #(note: opposite happens as well. people project onto sam -> see dean hurt sam -> block out the idea that dean could be just as much victim #as he is abuser. its just. easier like that.) #anyway. none of this is like. a crime. just an observation. really we get all our biases from the society we live in — a society obsessed #with perfect victims and evil unredeemable abusers. #all that stuff leaks into fandom takes whether we want it to or not #dean winchester #spn

[roachisnonbinary]

mostly self-indulgent roach hcs [because i too don't talk to people much and have survived near death experiences]:

• roach really doesn't like certain textures [hence why he wears so much gear to keep his body covered] and wears ear defenders [albeit connected to the rest of the team so he can hear orders] on missions because he's sensitive to sound and if he was to hear ALL of it, he'd be in pain and discomfort. all the gunshots and shouting n shit. however, he's proven time and time again to his superiors that he's well able to follow commands and keep himself safe even when he has them on, so he's allowed to wear them as much as he likes to be comfortable-- because often, we work better when we're comfortable in our environment, or at least stress slightly less.

• when he goes back to base after a mission he's EXHAUSTED. completely. he just flops down in his quarters and tries to sleep, curling into himself to be comfy with what little blankets they get in the army [it's the military after all, not a goddamn hotel]. but he's soso sleepy. he wants a nap. he wants bed.

• he isn't good at socialising. not really at all tbh. and being mute makes it so much worse. he doesn't know how to approach people, so he just sits in the sidelines watching them interact, but if he thinks they're looking back at him, he looks away, acting like he never even saw them and nothing's happening at all. the only one he's close to is ghost because they've been in so many missions together. plus, ghost is the more chilled out one. soap is a captain, all serious. he also struggles with eye contact and the team has just accepted that even if he's not directly looking into their eyes, he's still paying attention.

• he fidgets a lot. rubbing his fingers together or on nice textures or maybe making a little repetitive noise. he likes to do things with his hands and dislikes being completely unoccupied when awake.

• roach follows his orders obviously but wouldn't want to be around him as a "friend." not that he DISLIKES his captain, but he just feels like there's a large power imbalance between him, merely a sergeant, and a full-blown captain with a straight face and rough voice. he kinda feels small beside him.

• he likes fluffy animals. he's more gentle than the rest of the team off missions, and sometimes he'll just get all excited seeing a fox or a stray cat/dog or a rabbit or something passing by and want to pet it, even though he knows he shouldn't.

• he CANONICALLY has a journal, but im willing to bet sometimes he doodles in there too, so it isn't bland. like if he saw something interesting/important or maybe was simply bored, he'd just do a little doodle. he's a visual thinker, so pictures help him remember.

• he once had some small pet bugs, which he cared about quite a lot. however, after a long mission that lasted a good week or so, he came back to them dead. he cried over it with his head in his hands.

• he has autism and adhd. also a dissociative disorder of some sort, or something. his identity is very unstable and he never really feels fully "present." [<- projecting]

• he's pansexual but also graysexual/grayromantic. he doesn't experience much attraction, but when he does, the gender doesn't matter.

#not ALL can be related back to me #but some can #and i like to think of roach as neurodivergent #and this is just how i wanna think of him #gary roach sanderson #roach cod #cod roach #roach hcs #141 hcs #cod headcanons #141 headcanons #cod 09 #roach call of duty #call of duty roach

[midnight-moth]

Vaguepostingggggggg

#idk I just don’t think Phantom is a big dumb idiot #HCing him as autistic is totally fine and valid #but autistic people aren’t like total dumbasses #and also can we not confuse whimsy with … being a dumbass #no one here #from another place #I just find it kind of frustrating #I know part of his lack of understanding of the world is bc he’s new #but so was every other ghoul at one point #but he gets the big dumb dumb treatment and I can’t help but feel like it’s because ppl hc him as neurodivergent too #and then there’s the infantilizing #no I’m not taking about age regression fics #idk why it is getting under my skin but it is #it is not making him a dummy or ND #but the correlation that some people seem to be making with it #like correlating being ND with being a moron

[shivasdarknight]

one of the things that gets me about fanon lens - especially when you entrench yourself so much in a fan version of a character - is how a character can just slowly be stripped of what they are and who they are because of the self referential nature of fanworks (which isn't inherently bad, don't misunderstand; neglected characters can have new life breathed into them)

which is a long way of getting to: where did people get the idea that estinien's not one to talk, or is bad at effectively talking? I don't mean selectively mute hcs, i mean just very curt. like he's not as flowery as many of the scions or even compared to aymeric, but he's still dramatic and talks a lot. he's precise when he needs to be and extremely blunt, but just because of that doesn't mean he won't ramble

like his whole tangent about where he is today because of the wol right before the Dead Ends in Ultima Thule. his chattiness seems to fluctuate with how comfortable he is with someone, so i'm not really sure where "estinien's bad with words" came from?

he's no politician, but he's good at saying what needs to be said and saying it in a way that matters. yes, there is the whole aymeric thing but avoiding a difficult conversation rooted in guilt isn't the same as being bad at talking. he clearly knows how to get to people - especially to antagonize them into action (see: tiamat, azdaja) - so where did this come from?

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #estinien #original #again: this is not knocking mute or selectively mute hcs. this is about the people who think he's bad with words #i really suspect it has a lot to do with the similar thought of him being illiterate must mean he's stupid #we don't know his literacy level. he was a farm boy so its not aymerics level but hes not inherently illiterate #and even if he was that doesn't mean he's dumb. he's extremely emotionally intelligent and how he communicates shows that #but in order for it to show he has to be good at word intentionality and this fanon idea is the exact opposite #he's not dumb? he also talks a lot but he's very good at saying what needs to be said #none of that says bad at words or speaking like fanon thinks #its p squarely the opposite. he just has interpersonal communication issues #which is an entirely different thing and screams neurodivergent but leave me alone #im just saying like #idk give him a break and stop finding ways to make him stupid because you think rural means uneducated and uneducated adult funny

[voidscreamns]

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#i dont think i’ve talked my nonverbal!Diluc hc on here yet #but i keep seeing posts abt disability/chronjcally ill/neurodivergent hcs for genshin characters so here’s one from me #idk i feel like after That Night™️ and being on the run from the Fatui/working with a secret organization #diluc not just learns the ‘value’ of keeping secrets and staying quiet but also internalizes his guilt and trauma of saying smth that could #hurt people #it started with him telling Kaeya that he’s not a Ragnvindr anymore and then is exacerbated by his 3-4 Year Fatui Murder Rampage thru Teyvat #and with all ghat trauma and self-deprecation and paranoia he just. stops talking. #he picks up sign language in Fontaine and still writes but at some point he just stops talking and never speaks again #when he comes back to Mondstadt it was hard to adjust to for both him and the people around him #Kaeya initially assumes that Diluc just refuses to talk to him until he later hears gossip abt how no one has ever heard him speak since he #came back. he goes to Adelinde and/or Elzer abt it and they tell him that they neve even hear Diluc so much as hum or grunt #afterwards everyone changes up real fast— Kaeya and Venti drinking at the bar and seemingly just talking at Diluc but they’re always #observing his reactions and body language even when they’re drunk #Jean tries her best to be patient but she has a hard time reading him bc he’s changed so much in the time he’s been gone #Adelinde & Elzer and the winery staff are the most communicative he’s with— Diluc is far more likely to write with them to communicate #at some point Diluc has a business meeting with some rich dude from Fontaine or smth #Kaeya walks in bc he has an actual important mission thinf to discuss and he sees Diluc and this Fontaine dude and the dude’s wife #moving their hands so fast and with all kinds of gestured and stuff #and it’s the first time Kaeya sees Diluc look so EXPRESSIVE— he’s frowning and raising his eyebrows and mouthing words and all this #and Kaeya just goes ‘what’ #turns out the Fontainian dude is deaf and both him and his hearing wife know sign; she helps interpret this to kaeya for the dude and Diluc #and Kaeya is like ‘oh okay’ and goes to the kitchen like ‘i’ll just wait here till yall are finished’ #and he sees Adelinde and Elzer there with stoic faces and they just. stand there in quiet for so long. #Kaeya finally says ‘…..so. sign language huh’ and Adelinde and Elzer have the most pained looks on their faces #later that week Diluc finds like everyone around suddenly doing basic signs with him #he later learns that the winery has ordered a shitton of signing books from Fontaine and are trying to learn #+ Kaeya and Jean too with help from Lisa bc like dont you know learning several languages is a requirement for graduation from the Akademiya #soon the use of sign starts spreading in Mondstadt— there might be some small communities where they have their own native sign but it’s not #as standardized nor widely known as it is in Fontaine #this is getting really long so I’ll stop here but yeah. nonverbal Diluc who signs fjskdjs

[forestmossling]

when i was younger (and i don’t mean like “a literal child” younger, i used to do this up until i was like 16) i used to go around barefoot all the time. literally. i would walk around my yard barefoot, i would walk my dog barefoot (i lived in private sector at that point so there weren’t as many people around on the street), i even walked barefoot in the center of my town a couple of times. when i went to summer camps i would just go around barefoot for a whole month straight (in the beginning the counselors tried to stop or reprimand me but at some point they just accepted it as i thing i did).

and i really think that eddie would be like that too. he would definitely walk around barefoot all the time when he was younger because shoes felt weird sometimes and he would like feeling the ground, the grass, the asphalt under his feet. and wayne would be really worried about it at first, but then it would become another “eddie thing” for him and he would just sigh and tell him to be careful and watch where he steps. and at some point, as he grew older, eddie would stop, but i can imagine him showing up to school with no shoes on at some point and just walking around the school barefoot the whole day for the chaos. and he would still sometimes do that around trailer park when he’s alone.

#it’s time to project on your favorite fictional characters o’clock folks #god but how i miss walking around barefoot #it genuinely feels so cool #but now my ocd doesn’t let me #yes i am autistic why do you ask #and imagine this becoming like a private indulgent thing he doesn’t tell anyone about #but then he starts dating steve and tells him about it #and they just go for a walk with no shoes on #eddie munson #eddie munson hcs #eddie munson headcanons #neurodivergent eddie munson #stranger things headcanons #stranger things

[dennisboobs]

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#absolutely do not want to argue because i get where the post is coming from with but im gonna give some thots #re: dennis autism!!!! ok!!!!! #ive talked about it before but there is WAY more to him being autistic than just the buzzer noises. when i first watched that i was like #is THIS really why people hc him as autistic. :/ and i get it! i do! i think he has misophonia inherited from glenn personally #its actually why i captioned the noise sensitive den gifsets as that rather than just. autism. #but personally i see his scripted social interactions and i go. yeah. me. me fuckin too. #and his outbursts. which are VERY personally relatable to me #i have uh. basically the same triggers? very similar triggers at least #i think dennis' neurodivergency presents itself differently because of his upbringing and thats why a lot of ppl go ???? when you say. #'yea i think den's autistic actually' #and like i said i was absolutely like. what the hell are people talking about. he's not autistic #but uh. on rewatches? hm. #dennis quite literally masks almost 24/7 #charlie has no qualms about being perceived as like. weird. but dennis masks SO hard. SSSSSSOOOOO hard #i once saw a post like. charlie has boy autism and dennis has girl autism which honestly fucking hate that but its... kiiiind of true #ASD presents itself differently in adults depending on early social conditioning #mac fights gay marriage. group dates. new wheels. dee day. celebrity booze. all the big ones. all the hits. #look how he acts when he goes off script and is forced to speak off the cuff #the way glenn describes him as being very emotional but unable to adequately express his emotions too like. yeah. same. #theres so much more than the noise sensitivity #i could go on and on about how many fucking boxes he ticks but i honestly hate that shit. i know how autism works and that bitch is autisti #im going to refrain from commenting on the reasons why i feel charlie is more acceptably hced as autistic vs dennis because mmmmm but #dennis being 'hypersexual' (not about the sex. at all) and socially adept (has scripts/systems. charlie is more emotionally intelligent) #smells a lil stinky. smells a little bit like infantilization on charlie's part. #ada speaks #ok ill spare you guys. someday ill write a proper meta on this. ive talked about it before but.

[nascenticity]

i have seen a lot of headcanons (& fics!) about bucky doing crochet or knitting that i LOVE but i also need everyone to consider --

steve watching his mother doing irish crochet; maybe she even teaches him some simple things when he's sick and needs something to occupy him so he'll sit still and rest; its a creative outlet for sarah and that artistic streak is something she and steve share almost a century later, crochet comes back into fashion with millennials and gen-z, and steve looks up a youtube tutorial. he doesn't have many physical things left from his mom; but he can make some stuff that she would have loved and it helps him feel close to her.

#marvel #steve rogers #bucky barnes #stucky #ive been thinking about this a LOT lately #ive been looking at a lot of vintage crochet patterns lately and it had me thinking about sarah rogers and the fact that this would 100% #have been something she was exposed to/taught as a young girl. ofc as a single mother she wouldn't have had a lot of free time. #but making little things here and there as a hobby is far from out of the question #also since i hc steve as neurodivergent (adhd and possibly autistic) its entirely possible sarah was too #and crochet is just. such a good stim. #also lots and lots of headcanons about steve getting bored when he was sick #sitting in bed is BORING and im sure at least a few sketchbooks were filled that way #but maybe also a mother who is desperate to get her small child to calm down so his body can heal. will go “hey wanna see what i'm making?” #ik everyone has headcanons about bucky doing traditionally feminine stuff and sees steve as more traditionally masculine #bc that was gatekept from him bc of his disabilities #but let me have this

[asexual-spongebob]

little dashi and shellie hc.

they’ve been best friends since middle school and dashi helped shellington feel better about himself. oh and they’re both transgender ✨

#kitty giggles #octonauts #shellington octonauts #dashi octonauts #I hc that dashi is transfem and uses she/they pronouns and shellington is a trans man who uses he/him pronouns #oh and they’re both neurodivergent to me. dashi has adhd and shellie has autism

[jasontoddssuper]

Miles Morales and Kon-El Kent are both incredibly little brother-shaped but Miles is (affectionate) while Kon is (deragotry)

#when i look at miles i wanna give tadashi hamada a run for his money #when i look at kon i wanna tease him about loving bart steal his food AND cheat when we play video games together #eldest sibling rights ok! #miles morales #kon-el kent #spiderman #spiderverse #superfamilia #young justice #superboy #konbart #and they're both trans and neurodivergent :)!i also hc kon as half afrolatino on clark's side!! #platonically: #real self shipping hours #letters from summer

[puhpandas]

Quick question: is it weird that I hc Gregory as ADHD or is it, just, completely normal to see him as that?

its completely normal dude. if you see traits in him or even dont and just. want to see him that way it's fine. headcanons for characters are apart of life genuinely like everyone sees themselves in a character sometimes

#i headcanon evan with so much and all we actually know about him is that he cries because hes scared #you can see traits and try to understand why they would behave that way and neurodivergency is fine to hc #pandas.txt #pandas talks #pandas asks #even like the average person sees themselves in fictional characters even subconsciously its genuinely normal #i wouldnt worry :)

[krash-and-co]

OKOK hear me out but.... bpd lockwood. idk how to explain

NO UR RIGHT I agree with u he totally could !! I tag them every time but @gigawatt-smile is ceo of this in my mind, as we have spoken about it b4 and they were the first person I saw say it online

#the amount of hcs about what lockwood Has™️ is so funny to me like we can't decide but theres SOMETHING #I love getting asks like this btw #i like to think myself #if anything #the neurodivergent lockwood user #if i have had anything in this blog it is that #longest standing aspect of my reputation #i will never ever shut up about him #anyways trauma dumped in another post about this so ill spare you #anthony lockwood

[demonsfate]

even tho i didn't care for his tag 2 ending much, i do think it showcases a good example of how jin feels and expresses emotion.

jin loses his mother for the second time (realizing he unwittingly destroyed her when she was unknown) but we don't really see much reaction from him. he just... stares, his face remains unchanged. jin expresses nothing from this. it wasn't until dj took over that dj starts screaming and throwing a fit.

this is how i feel jin experiences emotions. he doesn't experience them like many people do. he's not expressive with them at all. but he does feel them strongly, even if it's not apparent. that's why dj takes over, because jin was going through so much, that he couldn't keep control. and it's his emotions that are influencing dj.

i just think it's something that makes jin a very interesting character. which is why i don't care for when certain medias (like the netflix anime) does make jin openly emotional. because yes, jin is emotional... it's just hard to tell with how he handles those emotions.

#🔥 - ɪᴛ's ᴀ ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛɪғᴜʟ ᴛʀᴀɢᴇᴅʏ // (study) #// it's also one of the reasons why i hc him as neurodivergent :')

[sysig]

VUXisms (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Or if you prefer my very Normal Collection of ZEX stimming lol #I'm not choosing to read alien behaviours through a neurodivergent lense you can't prove anything #Okay you got me yes I am lol - in conjunction with my ADHD Max HC (which I am only more convinced of lol) I went into this with #Really any kind of self-soothing behaviour fascinates me :D And ZEX definitely needs the soothing ;; #But it's not just the stimming! Though I did keep pretty diligent notes about that lol he's deeply interesting to me! #He's a texture person! Part of that is due to being VUX and having very processed food but if it fits it fits! #I'm also a texture person - again I have too many notes relating to ZEX lol #I also find it charming (or sad - whichever is applicable at the time!) when ZEX eats in ''odd'' ways haha ♪ #Eating without utensils - you can always just wash your hands you do you <3 #The weighted blanket lol so - I had a very normal and measured reaction to ZEX enjoying full-body pressure lol #Solely and purely intellectual! Of course! VUX enjoy swimming! Full-body pressure makes complete sense! #And he's a tactile person on top of that - pressure good for multiple reasons! I really do think he'd sleep better with a weighted blanket ♪ #Back to stimming! I really loved the scene of him opening the water bottle and his therapist being So Impatient with him about it lol #Let him figure it out! He's very intelligent! Very skilled at finding weak points and exploiting them hehe <3 #But then he runs his finger on the lip of the bottle! Wine-glassing it while he talks hehe <3 I love him #Humming!! Another stim I relate to! Not so much now since it was ''encouraged'' out of me so I may be doubly biased towards him using it hee #Too delighted to focus on utensil lessons and yet he's still clever enough to pay attention to multiple things at once hehehe ♫ #And then aside from his actual biggest stim he plays with his hair quite a lot - in various ways and to different ends :D #Running his hands through it to self-soothe or tugging on it to express - I kinda read it as him trying to move his head feelers around haha #Not quite the same but something! #Oh and then his biggest stim - just looking at humans lol it is very dopamine-delivering <3 And he has dopamine now! Very powerful :3c #Hhhhh human chemistry for VUX behaviours <3 It's so interesting to me hehe ♪