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my muse and I

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if you’re a baby trans and you haven’t started smoking cigarettes or vaping yet don’t. it’s actually not that hot or interesting. It will just cause you ungodly frustrations and suffering and cost you a bunch of money and be next to impossible to quit

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happy pride month to the most homophobic gay couple in modern television

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my opinions on the house md main cast

since we've got several new characters and lots of things happening here are my updates opinions on the house main cast! some minor spoilers for s4 and s5 stuff

House:

i kind of figured that maybe eventually he would learn his lesson and become a little more reasonable but i think every season his sanity slips a little bit more and he becomes more like an actual mad scientist. also probably the funniest main character out of any show ive watched in recent memory. "i kinda hit that last night. so now she's all on my jock." i wish he would treat people better but. sigh. i do love him though he's like a sad wet cat i pulled out of a dumpster.

Foreman:

lwk been pissing me off recently. ofc i think he's still interesting and i understand where some of moral and ethical objections to House come from but. my brother you got fired from Mercy for committing medical malpractice. after you left the medical malpractice department. you once extracted bone marrow from a ten year old boy without anesthesia. so his weird moral superiority thing turns me off. i like him and Thirteen together!

Cameron:

again been pissing me off recently. i haven't seen quite as much as her since she's not a fellow anymore but she just annoys me now. she's still majorly enabling House and i don't really love that but i do understand her. im excited to see more of her and Chase they're so cutie pie 😇

Chase:

pisses me off less than he did before! i like that he's got a backbone now but i also don't see quite as much of him. him and Cameron are still adorbs and i think him working the surgical team suits him!

Cuddy:

one of my favorite characters she is so amazing and beautiful and fantastic. her arc about motherhood and adoption is honestly so beautiful and feels very genuine to me (especially with her struggling to connect to the baby and doing it alone) i just really love her SO much. i also really love her and Wilson's friendship, i like that it doesn't feel like one of those "boy and girl best friends but one/both of them secretly wants the other so there's this weird awkward sexual subtext" it honestly feels like two people who have known each other a long time and care about each other and i love that. also her and House have been flirting for like two seasons ive been WAITING for them to hookup praise god!!!!!

Wilson:

still my favorite character he's so sweet and wonderful. still a weird little scheming freak. i understand the weird codependency between him and House and where it comes from and i realize House does honestly care about him but i wish he would treat Wilson better. especially with what happened with Amber. and his whole arc with Amber was really really beautiful and i think that was the happiest he's been the entire show ☹️ i really really hope that he gets to be close with Cuddy's baby and gets a chance to have something like that for himself

Thirteen:

i didn't think i was attracted to women before but every time she comes on screen im giggling and kicking my feet. she is soooo gorgeous and i need her bad. i also like that her being bisexual really isn't a big deal. like House makes stupid jokes about it that don't land and the other characters are a little invasive about it, but it feels very? genuine? it's not some big thing where she comes out to the team and gets all this grief for being bi it's just a thing that she is and that's whatever. also her and Foreman and pretty cute and i think that relationship is good for her. her grief about her sick mother and her Huntington's disease feels very raw to me and i like how it's being handled so far.

Kutner:

my weird little freak. i want to put him in a terrarium and study him under a microscope. he just makes me laugh i have no meaningful or serious opinions about him but he's lwk my favorite out of the current fellows

Taub:

also? a weird little freak? but in a suspicious way and not a cute way? i think it's so funny that he used to be a plastic surgeon honestly but i think he's a good character and his whole thing going on with his wife is interesting. and honestly i don't dislike him for cheating (God knows Wilson cheated on all three wives and people still baby him for it) everybody in this show has done something bad and ridiculous. i hope he sticks around for a while

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gay people are like "this is my comfort show" and it's a show where nothing ever good happens to the main character ever not once (me too)

EVEN MORE things that actually occurred in House MD

tried to keep this spoiler free but it's kinda hard to? here's an even longer list of things that really happened in House MD

Cuddy adopts a baby from some homeless drug addict squatters

House tries to prove that an exceptionally happy patient is only happy because of a deadly illness

And he was right. The guy had a tropical parasite.

House gets stuck in an airport during layoff with his situationship and resorts to using the airport's walls as a whiteboard while his team describes the patient's symptoms to him over the phone

House cuts into a woman's brain to prove that something is wrong with the left side of her brain because she enjoys working with special ed kids

House almost kills Chase at his bachelor party

House shoots a dead body and then uses an MRI to prove the bullet is magnetic

It is. He ruins the MRI machine

House hacks into the monitor in the OR to force Wilson to help him with a differential

Wilson sleeps with a terminal liver cancer patient

Aforementioned cancer patient miraculously gets her tumors shrunken by a travelling, 15-year-old Christian "healer" who was experiencing an episode of psychosis due to an undiagnosed STI

When there's an outbreak of an unidentified disease in the maternity ward, House tries to figure out what it is by giving two babies the opposite treatments knowing one of them would die

House induces hypothermic cardiac arrest on a 9-year-old cancer patient to find a clot in her brain

A fellow (during House's hiring game) poisons a patient to give her the symptoms of polio, so he could use vitamin C to cure her symptoms and encourage other doctors to research vitamin C as a cure for polio

(he got fired and arrested for this)

House bribes a surgeon to perform a risky operation

When that doesn't work, he blackmails the surgeon about his affair

Cameron drugs a patient after he was discharged so he would faint and have to be readmitted

House breaks into his ex-girlfriend's therapist office to steal her therapy notes and use them to manipulate her

House breaks the toilet in Cuddy's office bathroom with a sledgehammer as revenge after she took all the furniture out of his office

House sets a cadaver on fire

House induces a migraine on a coma patient to test different medications' effectiveness in preventing migraines

House kidnaps an actor from his favorite soap opera to prove that he's dying because he was reading his lines slower

House helps a father commit su!c!de so his son can get a new heart

Foreman extracts bone marrow from a child without anesthesia or lidocaine

House wakes up a severe burn victim from a medically induced coma in case the patient knew something to help diagnose him (he didn't)

Chase kills a patient (more than once, just for two different reasons)

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EVEN MORE things that actually occurred in House MD

tried to keep this spoiler free but it's kinda hard to? here's an even longer list of things that really happened in House MD

Cuddy adopts a baby from some homeless drug addict squatters

House tries to prove that an exceptionally happy patient is only happy because of a deadly illness

And he was right. The guy had a tropical parasite.

House gets stuck in an airport during layoff with his situationship and resorts to using the airport's walls as a whiteboard while his team describes the patient's symptoms to him over the phone

House cuts into a woman's brain to prove that something is wrong with the left side of her brain because she enjoys working with special ed kids

House almost kills Chase at his bachelor party

House shoots a dead body and then uses an MRI to prove the bullet is magnetic

It is. He ruins the MRI machine

House hacks into the monitor in the OR to force Wilson to help him with a differential

Wilson sleeps with a terminal liver cancer patient

Aforementioned cancer patient miraculously gets her tumors shrunken by a travelling, 15-year-old Christian "healer" who was experiencing an episode of psychosis due to an undiagnosed STI

When there's an outbreak of an unidentified disease in the maternity ward, House tries to figure out what it is by giving two babies the opposite treatments knowing one of them would die

House induces hypothermic cardiac arrest on a 9-year-old cancer patient to find a clot in her brain

A fellow (during House's hiring game) poisons a patient to give her the symptoms of polio, so he could use vitamin C to cure her symptoms and encourage other doctors to research vitamin C as a cure for polio

(he got fired and arrested for this)

House bribes a surgeon to perform a risky operation

When that doesn't work, he blackmails the surgeon about his affair

Cameron drugs a patient after he was discharged so he would faint and have to be readmitted

House breaks into his ex-girlfriend's therapist office to steal her therapy notes and use them to manipulate her

House breaks the toilet in Cuddy's office bathroom with a sledgehammer as revenge after she took all the furniture out of his office

House sets a cadaver on fire

House induces a migraine on a coma patient to test different medications' effectiveness in preventing migraines

House kidnaps an actor from his favorite soap opera to prove that he's dying because he was reading his lines slower

House helps a father commit su!c!de so his son can get a new heart

Foreman extracts bone marrow from a child without anesthesia or lidocaine

House wakes up a severe burn victim from a medically induced coma in case the patient knew something to help diagnose him (he didn't)

Chase kills a patient (more than once, just for two different reasons)

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what ISNT happening in House MD is a better question. and the answer is clinic hours

things that all actually happened in House MD (in no particular order) (mostly spoiler-free)

sometimes i think about this show for too long and i convince myself i must be high on something. anyway here's a list of things that actually happened unironically in House MD in no particular order

House drugs his best friend with amphetamines

Wilson drugs House with antidepressants

Both of these things happen independently of each other and neither knew at the time that the other was drugging them

House fakes brain cancer

House gets mad when his team proves that his fake blood sample did not actually have brain cancer

House fakes having neurosyphilis (successfully this time)

House breaks his own hand

House drops his pants in his boss's office unprompted

House prescribes an elderly woman Viagra

House gets drugged with narcotics by his own employees (and doesn't get mad about it)

House attacks a patient's father and sends him into cardiac arrest

House kidnaps Wilson and forces him to help him break into a House

House steals oxy from a dead cancer patient

House almost dies from OD'ing on aforementioned oxy

House gets shot unprompted and has a series of hallucinations while unconscious

Cameron does meth

Kutner explodes a dead man's bowel and covers Foreman in feces

House is stalked by an underage girl who was obsessed with him because of a brain fungus

Chase kisses a terminal 9-year-old cancer patient

House outs an Italian Mafia member as gay and is almost killed for it

House accuses his boss of being pregnant multiple times

Wilson kidnaps House

Cuddy drugs House

House tries to set up his best friend with his boss

House hires a private investigator to spy on his best friend

Kutner sets a patient on fire

Kutner electrocutes himself

House gives himself a seizure to save a patient (who dies anyway)

House spends multiple episodes consistently making fun of a black Mormon employee

House overdoses on Alzheimer's medication and gives himself a heart attack

if this doesn't convince you to watch House i really don't know what will

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MORE things that actually happened in House MD in no particular order

i love this show. some minor, vague spoilers!!!

Wilson pretends to date a prostitute

House holds a patient hostage in an elevator

House makes a police officer drop his pants during a physical because the guy was profiling him

The police officer then spent the next several episodes attempting to ruin House's life in retaliation

Chase attempts to dominate a patient to get him to sign a consent form after the patient's dominatrix is arrested

House breaks an MRI machine by trying to put a really fat patient in it

House convinces a patient to sue Wilson

House breaks into a woman's computer to prove she's lying to her daughter

House and Cuddy manipulate a patient with Mirror Syndrome to determine who is dominant in their relationship

Wilson asks House to electrically stimulate his own hypothalamus (EXTREMELY DANGEROUS) to recall a memory from the deep recesses of his mind in hopes of saving a patient

A billionaire buys the hospital and fires Wilson for refusing to vote to fire House

House lies to the transplant committee to get a new heart for a bulimic woman

House performs a vaginal exam on a patient while trapped inside an elevator

House sabotages a former employee's interviews to prevent him from getting hired

Foreman leaves the medical malpractice department to go work at another hospital where he is fired for committing medical malpractice

House accuses his best friend of sleeping with the female version of himself (and neither of them deny it)

House wakes up a patient from a ten-year-long coma to go get him a sandwich

House lies to a pregnant woman and her husband on Christmas that she is going to have a medically anomalous virgin birth

House hires a woman to pretend to have an deadly neurological illness as revenge after Kutner opens an online second-opinion clinic in House's name

Foreman irradiates a woman's entire body and kills her

Foreman intentionally tries to infect Cameron with a deadly unidentified illness

Foreman breaks into Thirteen's house

House gives a crazed gunman back his weapon in order to find the right diagnosis for him

Thirteen gets injected with like six different drugs while being held hostage by aforementioned crazed gunman so he can prove that it's not poison

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things that all actually happened in House MD (in no particular order) (mostly spoiler-free)

sometimes i think about this show for too long and i convince myself i must be high on something. anyway here's a list of things that actually happened unironically in House MD in no particular order

House drugs his best friend with amphetamines

Wilson drugs House with antidepressants

Both of these things happen independently of each other and neither knew at the time that the other was drugging them

House fakes brain cancer

House gets mad when his team proves that his fake blood sample did not actually have brain cancer

House fakes having neurosyphilis (successfully this time)

House breaks his own hand

House drops his pants in his boss's office unprompted

House prescribes an elderly woman Viagra

House gets drugged with narcotics by his own employees (and doesn't get mad about it)

House attacks a patient's father and sends him into cardiac arrest

House kidnaps Wilson and forces him to help him break into a House

House steals oxy from a dead cancer patient

House almost dies from OD'ing on aforementioned oxy

House gets shot unprompted and has a series of hallucinations while unconscious

Cameron does meth

Kutner explodes a dead man's bowel and covers Foreman in feces

House is stalked by an underage girl who was obsessed with him because of a brain fungus

Chase kisses a terminal 9-year-old cancer patient

House outs an Italian Mafia member as gay and is almost killed for it

House accuses his boss of being pregnant multiple times

Wilson kidnaps House

Cuddy drugs House

House tries to set up his best friend with his boss

House hires a private investigator to spy on his best friend

Kutner sets a patient on fire

Kutner electrocutes himself

House gives himself a seizure to save a patient (who dies anyway)

House spends multiple episodes consistently making fun of a black Mormon employee

House overdoses on Alzheimer's medication and gives himself a heart attack

if this doesn't convince you to watch House i really don't know what will

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um in case anybody was wondering i didn't find that funny

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almost finished with s4 of House (episode 12) and the way Wilson just? lets Amber tell him what to do? and admits he's scared of her? yeah he gets pegged

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i’m free on thursday if you wanna start a toxic codependent thing

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lets hear it for transgenderism and faggotry. can I get a round of applause for transgenderism and faggotry

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save me bitching

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Dr. House is still some of the best autistic representation I've ever seen

I made my initial post a while ago, but I'm finally starting season 4 and I feel just as strongly about this. I did get a little bit of pushback on my initial post so let me be clear: I don't care if you disagree with me! I don't care if you don't think Dr. House is autistic! Do not get into my comments and be condescending about it! I'm autistic and this is my opinion! Make your own post about why you think Dr. House is neurotypical and leave me alone!

Disregard for social cues or normalities. I'm really driving this one home because every time I watch this show it shocks me how much he's like me. Not necessarily even because he's an asshole, but because he's just weird. This is old news, but he has an entire conversation with Wilson about how he's not good with first dates and conversations because either the topic of conversation is boring, or there's subtext, and to understand the subtext you need "a decoder ring." Hm yes very neurotypical thing to say. He doesn't have much sense of boundaries or privacy, and regularly embarrasses Wilson or will discuss something gross with Cuddy while someone else is around. He also says pretty gross things in public and in inappropriate situations, even if just to be funny. Some of this is just generally him being an asshole, but I think some of this is genuinely a lack of understanding in how to interact with people. Sometimes he just plainly doesn't respond when asked a question or spoken to when he doesn't know what to say or doesn't want to speak.

Strong sense of justice and morality. I mention this a little in my initial post, but I don't remember if it was its own point. House gets angry when people endanger his patients, and will get angry at anyone, no matter who, if their decision hurts his patient. When Wilson was too afraid to put his foot down and insist that the family accept House's treatment in "Family," he gets pissed off at Wilson and tells him he's a "coward." He apologizes for this after because it was uncalled for, and Wilson's intentions were good, but nevertheless he was right. This is not me saying that House is a particularly moral individual. If you took a shot every time he violated very basic ethical principles you would die of alcohol poisoning before you reached the second season of the show. But House's concern is his patient's life. In his mind, if his actions save his patient's life, it is ultimately moral. When his team fucks up and risks their patient, he gets pissed off and will humiliate them so they understand the gravity of their mistake.

Specific and niche interests. I mention in my initial post that he has very few interests (mostly General Hospital and his job), but since the first couple seasons I've gotten more a feel for his love of music. He owns live recordings of Elvis on vinyl. He owns more than one guitar (from what I saw of his apartment). Music is kind of his thing. To take that a little further, it seems like he collects things. This is by no means necessarily an autistic trait, but collecting is very common with autistic people who have special interests. I collect Spiderman merchandise, for example.

Resistant to change. I don't think I'd seen the episode yet, but after he's shot at the end of season 2, he insists that the carpet that's been stained with his blood is kept. He goes as far as to annoy everyone incessantly in order to get his carpet back. House is also just generally the kind of person who wants things exactly how he wants them. He doesn't like people messing with his things or for his environment to change, even when the inconvenience is simple and ultimately unimportant. In the last episode of season 3, Wilson says this pretty plainly. House has played the same guitar since eighth grade, driven the same car for ten years, and been living in the same place for fifteen. Change just isn't his thing. It's often hard for autistic people to adapt to significant changes because of the way they process information. Change is overwhelming.

Observant and analytical. When Wilson starts yawning, he doesn't just write this off or explain it, he immediately starts considering every possible reason and deducing why he's yawning. House likes puzzles, and symptomology is his thing. He also definitely violated Wilson's trust by spiking his coffee with amphetamines, but he did so based on a line of logic and reason. This isn't necessarily an autistic characteristic, but it is fairly common among some autistic people to view a course of action or event through the lense of logic rather than considering the emotional consequences. I do this a lot. House is also especially blunt and almost excessively honest. He does lie (obviously), but when it really matters to be honest he will be, and he won't mince his words for people's comfort. This is going back to differences in how he experiences empathy.

This post is honestly probably boring, because I'm really just driving my initial points home. Again, I don't really think that House MD discusses autism in the most meaningful or accurate way, but House feels more authentic to me than actual, intentional autistic representation. Also, some of these things can be attributed to depression or House's problems with attachment; this is just my perspective on some things.

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Hey! I'm using your post in an assignment for university. Its a video essay and I was thinking of posting it onto the autism community board here on tumblr but since I dive pretty deep into one of your posts (and i do, of course, credit you) I wanted to make sure you were ok with this! If not, no problem I'll keep it to my class at university. If you want to see it before I release it and then decide thats ok too! Just let me know! I'm planning to post on Saturday! Thank you!

oh my gosh absolutely??? i wouldn't mind it at all! let me know when it's posted so i can see it, thank you for asking first!

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