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WHOOPS! Local man slips on a banana peel! The world’s at his feet!

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She’s right. Leave that shit (psychic) alone!

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my OCs are sooo cool you guys don't know what you're missing. if you could see the show i'm watching in my head rn you'd go so crazy i'm telling u

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ok :(

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Look, Lassie, we both know what this is about. This is about me and Juliet.

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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (S01E11) PSYCH (2006—2014)

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shawn wanting to barge into a bank because gus was taken hostage and henry saying there's not a room he won't bust the door down to to find shawn when shawn is kidnapped oh he is his father's child

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the oh so silly grown ass men <33

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Psych – 6.16: Santabarbaratown

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season 7 episode 3. shawn enrolls gus in a college course on theory. gus has no immediate reaction to this aside from "oh my gosh. i could have an exam on friday. i need to find a syllabus" and honestly? character of all time. to me.

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I could write a dissertation about this and instead only have time for a few paragraphs but. Looking back on Psych with more knowledge about neurodiversity and how people feel about actually being around folks with neurodiversity-related traits…

I have a LOT of feelings about how Gus has so many of the autistic (and some ADHD) traits that people find annoying and grating and get pissed off about (correcting people, infodumping, dropping special interests into unrelated conversations, rigidity in folllowing rules, etc) and Shawn has so many of the ADHD (and some autistic) traits that people find annoying etc (physical and verbal hyperactivity, jumping between tasks and jobs and so forth, habitual lying, interrupting in conversation, etc), BUT

With each other they sort of… build their relationship around those things, instead of treating them as Problems. Gus corrects incorrect things and Shawn forgets correct things (or habitually lies or etc) so they build an entire recurring bit around the situation where those traits intersect (“I’ve heard it both ways”) that turns it from a source of conflict into a shared in-joke ritual. When Shawn starts up one of his elaborate lies Gus immediately swings into commit to the bit back-up mode. Shawn treats Gus’s infodumping as a social strategy.

They balance each others’ extremes without genuinely resenting each other for needing that. Gus is overly rigid about rule-following, Shawn is overly impulsive about rule-breaking, and they pull each other towards a more sustainable middle ground. Gus is overly fond of routine and risks stagnation, Shawn is overly prone to starting and then abandoning things, between them they’re able to form a life that’s interesting and includes novelty but isn’t unlivably chaotic. (We see what happens with that one when they’re not together to balance each other out! During the time they were apart, Shawn had a jillion jobs and quit all of them, while Gus became a dead-eyed pharmaceutical salesman with zero, like, Upward Mobility.)

And then of course there are the traits they share! They both clearly have echolalia and a drive to stim, for instance, and instead of policing each other they just periodically break into random dances and vocal exercises and “singing” and general sensory-seeking nonsense together, matched to each other.

I just??? The fact that they visibly display all those autistic and ADHD traits that drive other people crazy but instead of being a wedge between them that’s exactly why they’re perfect for each other… and how it’s not that it doesn’t ever cause them annoyance because they’re just like naturally soulmates who never get annoyed by anything about each other, but that they’ve worked out rituals and strategies so that what maybe bothered them in the past now instead is a shared bonding activity, or acts to balance their weaknesses against each other…

Just. Got Dam, that’s the dream

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Okay so this is my favourite meme template.., ever.

Thus! I decided to make a bunch of psych ones for pride month (well actually just for myself but I’m gay so potato potato)

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MAGGIE LAWSON as JULIET O'HARA Psych (2006-2014) ☆ Episode 1.15

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adult shawn and henry are at their funniest when their nearly identical flavor of arrogant annoying and crazy (affectionate) collides so that theyre being arrogant annoying and crazy at each other instead of at other people, identically, and then they both have the gall to be all shocked pikachu face about it like theyre not the exact same person in slightly different fonts.

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Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt

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Psych – 7.11: Office Space

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karen vick most underrated character of all time that woman woke up every day and claimed with a fully straight face to the mayor the fbi the cia the military multiple special agents and probably the president that she had a real psychic in her employ. queen of long term bit commitment fr