Thatadhdfeel when an adhd reddit thread is how you learn that sitting with your legs up on the chair well into adulthood is an adhd thing.
wait seriously? not sitting in chairs properly is an adhd thing?
(i mean i’d guess it could be a thing for many other reasons but…huh.)
I’ve never seen and can’t find any research on this, but my experience both as ND and in the field is that sensory issues (which come with ADHD, ASD, and SPD) usually lead to unusual sitting and/or standing postures.
Think about it though. Think about a regular standard chair, think what it’s like to sit on it. It’s pretty uncomfortable, right? Wrong! Most people actually have no trouble sitting on regular chairs! that’s why they are designed the way they are! most people can sit on them just fine without squirming or feeling pain or feeling the need to fit their legs onto the seat too!
And if this thought, that chairs aren’t just badly-designed discomfort-items, is as mind-boggling a thought to you as it is to me, you probably aren’t all that neurotypical (I won’t say either way about it being ADHD specific since I don’t have ADHD as far as I know, but I’m not neurotypical).
What the heckie?
I mean, I’m also short, so I just always assumed that was my problem with being comfortable in chairs.
But even in the car, I end up scrunching into the pressure stim of having my legs crossed or under me, so!
yeah this is def an autism/ADHD/etc thing. you see it all the time in coded characters as well
…there’s no WAY neurotypicals can possibly like chairs. Can some people without ADHD or autism chime in?
yeah i have no idea how normal people sit in chairs like that but they seem to like it. i absolutely scrunch up like a goblin if i can get away with it.
[Image shows an anime character sitting with their knees up to their chin, chewing on their thumb. They are staring very intently, and saying, “I’ve got to sit like this.”
obvs there is something great about when a Big Scary turns into a Big Softie where Tiny Useless is concerned, but what i like better is:
Tiny Useless decides, with no prompting and for no apparent reason whatsoever, that Big Scary needs protecting. and if no one else will do it then this accidentally-gets-stepped-on, blows-away-in-a-stiff-breeze motherfucker is going to have to be the one to protect this living mountain of pain. you wanna get to this troll, you’re gonna have to go through this pixie. you try to come for this tibetan mastiff, this chihuahua’s gonna try to kick your ass first.
and the Big Scary is mostly just?? really confused???? there are at least twenty different reasons why this is fucking dumb. but also this feeble lil shit is the first person in the entire world to try and stand up for this person that absolutely does not need it. Big Scary continues to be huge and terrifying but now Tiny Useless has their undying loyalty and it will probably not end well for anyone.
i like seeing all of the ships this has been tagged with, but, i am going to be completely honest with you guys, when i wrote this i was thinking about little girls like my sister, who at the age of five had a strict ‘talk shit get hit’ policy about the incredible hulk
seeing a lot of folks with some weak-ass “but actually the tiny one is deadly and the big one is nice” tags and lemme tell ya
that is a different trope
do you think i picked the words Tiny Useless by accident. do you think there is no reason i called the Big Scary a mountain of pain?
not to get petty but this isn’t an idea about appearances being deceiving, or the amusement of reversing expectations, or the aesthetic.
this is about someone who can absolutely take whatever punishment the world throws at them, and probably throw plenty back, being told that their capacity for horror doesn’t mean they should have to endure it. someone who can’t defend themselves choosing to try to defend someone who can because to them there is no moral difference.
hogarth didn’t save the iron giant by punching a tank, my dudes. the iron giant didn’t have to be helpless to be worth protecting. you know what i mean?
a question: i’m working on a wip that has been sitting in my drive since last year, and it’s basically an au where bruce adopts the batkids but doesn’t tell them that he’s batman. this… doesn’t mean that they’re not aware of it. (they live under the same roof and the man is not as subtle as he thinks he is). i’m currently working on it as a oneshot but more headcanons keep popping up. should i turn this into a multichapter fic?
“Aren’t you getting a little too old for your nightly activities?” Jason drawls, stretching his legs under the table. Dick glares at him but his younger brother merely gives him a smirk. Tim gives the both of them dirty looks, hands still clutching his head. Looks like his headache isn’t going away anytime soon.
“I don’t think there’s an age limit to boxing.” Bruce grunts and closes the fridge with a carton of juice on one hand. He pours Damian a cup of the orange juice, ignoring the way Damian sinks lower in his chair and turns the music in his headphone louder. “And I’m not that old.”
Cass snickers as she butters her toast. Bruce shoots her a look.
“Yeah, but,” Jason says, dragging the last word out like whenever he wants to get away with something. Dick resists the urge to tear his hair out. Apparently hoping for one morning of peace before he has to go back to work is simply too much. “What’s the point of you learning self defense if you keep losing to Clark?”
Bruce’s eyebrows twitch. The bruise on his jaw from Batman’s fight with Bane – or, which Bruce claims is from golfing – has blossomed into a dark shade of purple. “For the last time, Jason. Clark and I go to the same gym. It doesn’t mean I train with him there.”
“I mean,” Jason says. “You can keep saying that, but it’s definitely not what he told me.”
Um, I am definitely all for a multi-chapter behemoth. But it is entirely your choice. I … just think that this sounds really entertaining.
totally true that’s what i was thinking while making my list ahahaha didn’t even realize every one with cass was stable until i was done but then i thought of course they are it’s CASS
Up until now, Claudette St. Croix was the only autistic mutant in the X-Men canon
that I was aware of, but I found another canonically-diagnosed
character! Laura Dean aka Pathway! Her entry on the Marvel Wiki is
linked, so you can read all about her there. A few things of note:
–
She’s a black woman! As I noted with Claudette, that’s
surprising/awesome to me because every other depiction of autism that
I’ve seen in media has been a white male.
– It says “Pathway,
for a time, was autistic” so it might be that she’s…not autistic
now? Obviously in the real world, autism does not go away, but Marvel
isn’t great at writing autism (Claudette just stood around in
catatonic silence until suddenly using her powers when necessary,
basically) The art looks like she’s from the early 90s, which doesn’t
give me much hope for how well her “autism” was portrayed.
–
It’s interesting that her power is dimensional portals, because that
was one of Claudette’s most notable super-powers as well.
What I really love is how Tsuyu has surpassed the bnha fandom and like,, everyone knows and loves her. I have seen so many supportive posts that are like “I hope the frog girl from that one anime is having a good day” I really love that. It is so pure and good. Tsuyu truly deserves this.
Images show Kara/Supergirl and Steph/Spoiler trying to stop Jon and Damian from fighting. Steph threatens to call Cass. Cass show up and ends up teaching the boys to fight.
i like to think about all of the hoops they’d jump through just to be in bruce’s room when they’re feeling particularly anxious – tim swoops in, obsessively going through bruce’s medicine cabinet, yelling at him from the bathroom, and bruce is just kind of dozing on the bed. tim moves to the rest of the room, studiously organizing the mess that is bruce’s bedside table, and eventually bruce gets irritated like, “christ’s sake, tim, just lay down.” if dick does it, i feel like he just doesn’t even explain himself anymore – he just barges in, shoves bruce over, move over what do you eat concrete, and tucks himself in – or he crashes in the chair beside the bed after having snuck in. cass just makes herself at home – she doesn’t try to explain herself. damian always makes up a transparent story about periodically checking for attempts on his father’s life
jason, though. oh, jason – jason would have eighteen and a half million reasons to be there than the actual one, and they’d all be at least slightly legitimate. there’s a case you need to know about, bruce. there’s been reports of a breakout, bruce. this is all very serious information, which you need to know right now, and i don’t care if you look like a hedgehog in its nest you need to get up right now and pay attention to what i’m saying. eventually, he’d sit in the chair and glare at bruce, whose face is shoved into a pillow and is watching him out of one eye, and be like, “i guess you are pretty tired, huh, old timer.” and then bruce pretends to fall asleep, which then tricks jason into falling asleep in the chair, check and mate
whenever there is more than one they warily eye each other as they compete for dominance, and bruce falls asleep while they’re ruffling their feathers. depending on the kind of night he’s had, he might even snore
I’m pretty sure @incogneat-oh has written something like this. I am NOT going to go look, though, because I am making CHARTS and Neat-oh’s archive is to warm and lovely and sad to escape.
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