*inhalation* What fictional character do you headcanon as autistic in which everybody else thinks is neurotypical?

What I mean is that some fandoms have characters that are commonly headcannoned as autistic. Like Zuko from Avatar, or Leni from Loud House. But what’s a character that you headcanon to be on the spectrum that barely anyone else in the fandom has ever acknowledged? A unique neurodivergent headcanon that you don’t see a lot of other people talking about.

For me it’s Lincoln Loud from The Loud House and Audrey Lim from The Good Doctor (haha the irony-)

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 4 days ago

I hate these fuck ass scales for anxiety/depression/ADHD/ etc questionnaires

(Sorry for low quality)

I hate them so much. It is not specific enough at all. What if it’s in between one of options. Also “several days” seems like a significant jump from “not at all”, define “several days”. Why is “nearly every day”an option and not also “every day”. I’m probably thinking about this way too much (autism go brr) but it’s genuinely debilitating to fill these out and it’s not at all accurately reflecting what I actually experience.

u/Background_Ship7666 — 6 days ago

How to use a public shower on your period

I’m at a camp right now until Friday and the showers are only ones in a public restroom. I just got my period (it came very early) and idk wtf to do I’m gonna have a panic attack. I have a very specific routine at home when I shower on my period but these showers have only 1 shared drain and I don’t wanna free bleed for other people to see the blood cause that’s nasty af. I’m already stressed about the different routine in things now I am mortified about dealing with my period (my pads are really sucky small ones too). Please idk what to do I am so fucked.

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 13 days ago

How do you deal with your period in a public shower

I’m at a camp right now until Friday and the showers are only ones in a public restroom. I just got my period (it came very early) and idk wtf to do I’m gonna have a panic attack. I have a very specific routine at home when I shower on my period but these showers have only 1 shared drain and I don’t wanna free bleed for other people to see the blood cause that’s nasty af. I’m already stressed about the different routine in things now I am mortified about dealing with my period (my pads are really sucky small ones too). Please idk what to do I am so fucked.

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 13 days ago

DON’T WRITE lisps, accents, or over overt stutters in dialogue

Yes, you can specify the character has some sort of speech difference occasionally.

But don’t wrote a character with a lisp speaking like “Sho I need to shpeak to Shally about shome important shtuff, or elesh Shally might fashe shome conshquenshes”

Don’t write a character with a southern American accent like “All d’em folks and ya betta be careful, ‘r else they ain’t gettin’ away, are yer gon’ be alrigh’ ther par’ner?”

Don’t write a character with a stutter like “B-b-b-but I-I-I-I didn’t th-th-th-th-th-th-ink it’d b-b-b-b-b-b-b-big deal, I-I-I am s-s-so s-s-s-s-s-s-sorry”

Like yes it’s okay occasionally to remind the reader of the speech the person has especially if it’s important to the story, but please for the love all things living… don’t write it in every word, it gets incredibly jarring to read. I hope I’m not being petty but this genuinely bugs me so much and it takes the emersion away from the story imo.

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 19 days ago

AITBA for telling my friends to stop texting in a gc?

I (17f) am in a group chat with 3 other friends, we all know each other from school. I am the oldest as I am going into senior high this year when everyone else is a junior or sophomore. Recently we decided to stay in contact on a gc during the summer. For the most part it has been a fun experience and we talk about what we are doing during the day or joke around + play iPhone games. Recently these 2 friends in particular have been utilising the gc way more than me and the other friend. So much so that they consistently keep having one on one conversations with one another on the gc. They made it clear me and the other friend weren’t meant to be included cause they’d always gossip about this “friend” they have named “Jeff” (used different name for privacy reasons). and other shit. Me and the other friend never knew who/what they were talking about.

I didn’t mind at first but got increasingly annoyed at receiving notifications for a conversation I was not apart of. At first I just put it on DND but I would keep missing information I needed to know or something they had planned to do that day. So I took it off DND, but these friends CONTINUE to text each other on the gc when they can easily have their own convo on their own texting conversation. I told them to stop and to text each other privately but they ignored me completely. Again and again I told them politely but to no avail. Eventually I was in the middle of doing something important for a family event and my phone kept going off. I put it on DND but got scolded for even being on my phone to do that.

After the event I finally snapped at them and sternly told them to text in their own chat and stop incessantly setting my phone off for a conversation I am not even apart of. And that if they wanted to bitch about their friend Jeff to each other that I don’t need to know about it every second of the goddamn day because I don’t care and it should be discussed privately, especially in that moment. They got mad and said that they can do that if they wanted to and just silence them if it was bothering me THAT much. But I *have,* I just can’t keep it on all the time cause I would miss part of a conversation that was actually necessary for me to see. They then made a separate gc without me in it to “compensate”.

In a separate text conversation I contacted the other friend (16F) in the gc. Apparently the 2 friends have started to bitch about me now too. The neutral friend I contacted agreed with me completely that what they did was wrong but I shouldn’t have been so rude about it. I’m wondering if I overreacted and just let them continue the conversations or approached the situation differently now. I feel bad for how I handled myself. So… AITBA?

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 20 days ago
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AITA for telling my friends to stop texting in our gc?

I (17f) am in a group chat with 3 other friends, we all know each other from school. I am the oldest as I am going into senior high this year when everyone else is a junior or sophomore. Recently we decided to stay in contact on a gc during the summer. For the most part it has been a fun experience and we talk about what we are doing during the day or joke around + play iPhone games. Recently these 2 friends in particular have been utilising the gc way more than me and the other friend. So much so that they consistently keep having one on one conversations with one another on the gc. They made it clear me and the other friend weren’t meant to be included cause they’d always gossip about this “friend” they have named “Jeff” (used different name for privacy reasons). and other shit. Me and the other friend never knew who/what they were talking about.

I didn’t mind at first but got increasingly annoyed at receiving notifications for a conversation I was not apart of. At first I just put it on DND but I would keep missing information I needed to know or something they had planned to do that day. So I took it off DND, but these friends CONTINUE to text each other on the gc when they can easily have their own convo on their own texting conversation. I told them to stop and to text each other privately but they ignored me completely. Again and again I told them politely but to no avail. Eventually I was in the middle of doing something important for a family event and my phone kept going off. I put it on DND but got scolded for even being on my phone to do that.

After the event I finally snapped at them and sternly told them to text in their own chat and stop incessantly setting my phone off for a conversation I am not even apart of. And that if they wanted to bitch about their friend Jeff to each other that I don’t need to know about it every second of the goddamn day because I don’t care and it should be discussed privately, especially in that moment. They got mad and said that they can do that if they wanted to and just silence them if it was bothering me THAT much. But I *have,* I just can’t keep it on all the time cause I would miss part of a conversation that was actually necessary for me to see. They then made a separate gc without me in it to “compensate”.

In a separate text conversation I contacted the other friend (16F) in the gc. Apparently the 2 friends have started to bitch about me now too. The neutral friend I contacted agreed with me completely that what they did was wrong but I shouldn’t have been so rude about it. I’m wondering if I overreacted and just let them continue the conversations or approached the situation differently now. I feel bad for how I handled myself. So… AITA?

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 20 days ago

Random headcanon for Starlo I have

I headcanon he likes to wear more traditionally feminine clothing. Like if he were to go to a special event outside of his cowboy outfit he’d wear a dress. Or if he got married he’d wear a wedding dress. I know it’s really random but I totally think Star would unironically do this.

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 21 days ago

Am I the only one who doesn’t like Eddie much?

I mean… I don’t hate him, or even dislike him. I just don’t particularly care for him at all. I wasn’t upset when he died. I personally don’t understand why people are so attached to him (it’s okay if you are I just don’t understand), he was a new character with not that much screentime for the audience to really truly get to know. I just don’t care about Eddie like that at all 🤷‍♀️ Am I the only one feels this way?

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 22 days ago

Really easy way they could have had a slightly better ending

This is about Jane living.

We know that the mindflayer is the reason the powers exist from that rock with Henry, if the upside down and dimension x are destroyed with everything inside. Why not just... make Jane not have powers anymore? They'd realise the magnet thingy isn't working on her anymore and discover she permanently doesn't have her powers anymore.
Wtf does the actual ending teach us?? The abused should die so they won't be abused by the abusers?
If anyone deserved to live it's Jane. Suffering her whole life only to "die".
I liked the season at first when I watched it cause of the excitement but now after watching a shit ton of analysis videos and thinking, it's really bad. Almost no thought was put into it. It disappoints me.

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 24 days ago

Does anyone else get really tired from caffeine?

Every time I drink coffee I always get really tired. I never drink it to wake up (I just really like the taste), because it doesn’t. I could drink coffee before bed and sleep. Is this common with autistic folks or am I just weird as fuck?

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 25 days ago

Headcanon I have

I am probably incorrect for this, as I see no one else ever online say this. I headcanon a character to be on the spectrum. It's not the classic Leni or Lisa, or even Clyde (possible, but not who I am talking about).
I personally believe that Lincoln is.
Especially because of the later seasons. I can go in depth about my explanation (it will take a while to set things up). But I see no one else mentioning Lincoln specifically.

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 1 month ago

I tried making pancakes…

Emphasis on tried, I could not figure out when to flip the damn thing and struggled to flip it 😭

u/Background_Ship7666 — 1 month ago

Did anyone else cry after being tested??

I remember when I got tested 2 years ago I cried in the car afterwards. I hated every second of it. I despised being observed for EVERYTHING I did while being assessed. Like isn’t that ironic? The autism assessment made me have a breakdown afterwords? 😭

They were very quick to confirm I was autistic, btw…

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 1 month ago

I know it’s because it’s a TV Y-7 show… but

Wouldn’t anyone else agree that realistically Lincoln would have some insane PTSD from everything he’d experienced? Especially after like… every movie? He almost died SEVERAL times, how doesn’t he have any trauma at all?? I’d pay to see an episode that would tackle the mature subject of Lincoln having PTSD/trauma and dealing with it, but unfortunately that will not happen due to it literally being a kids show ;-;

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 1 month ago

Does a cut to the skin with the eczema make it come back even worse?

Please I have this stupid ass eczema right now and I am so scared because it looks so weird to me and I have bad trypophobia and I’m having a panic attack. I accidentally cut the finger that has the eczema and I am worried that once it heals it will come back even worse with bigger and more blisters. It’s also on the back of my hands and I fucking hate it so much it looks so weird I don’t even care about the itchy part I just hate looking at it it scares me so bad. What do I do :(

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u/Background_Ship7666 — 1 month ago