#adhd eddie munson

[apuckishwit]

When Your Boyfriend's a Reformed Mean Girl

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Time seems to do wierd things for Eddie Munson.

It's something Steve has gotten used to, in the year they've been dating. Eddie is attentive and affectionate, always makes sure Steve needs are being met, always goes the extra mile to let Steve know how much he loves him, how much he cherishes their time together. In many ways, he's the best partner Steve's ever had.

Just...sometimes things like approaching deadlines and important dates seem to literally not register in his brain until it's almost too late. And not even then, sometimes.

Eddie acknowledges that it's a problem. He puts every effort into finding workarounds. There is a calendar hanging at both his (brand new, government-funded) trailer and Steve's house, hanging right by the door with color-coded schedules and a pack of Post-It notes and a cup of pens sitting on a little table below it in case something changes or comes up. Steve has a dedicated half hour every night where he's allowed to remind Eddie of things they have coming up, or ask if they've been added to the calendar and Eddie is one hundred percent not allowed to gripe about being nagged in that thirty minutes. Not that he would, because most of the time there's at least one, "Oh, shit, forgot about that." When something slips through the cracks, he apologizes promptly and sincerely if it's something that affects someone other than him and he is always trying to do better.

Steve understands. Hell, after as many concussions as he's had, details get away from him too sometimes. There's several color-coded blocks on the calendar for Steve, as well. Sometimes, Eddie just forgets things despite his best efforts.

But their anniversary? The date that Steve has been carefully planning for almost a month to celebrate their first (of hopefully, many) year together as a couple? Really?

Eddie is going to be horrified.

He is going to feel so bad, and so guilty, and he is absolutely going to go all out to make it up to Steve. Steve knows this. He knows Eddie loves him, and that Eddie was looking forward to tonight as much as he was, and that this is just an instance of Eddie's brain betraying him, and not him actively trying to hurt Steve, or be dismissive of him. Eddie is going to feel awful when he realizes that he stood Steve up on their one-year anniversary to fight imaginary dragons with the boys. Hell, the boys are probably going to feel awful when they realize they gave Eddie something else to focus on in the lead-up to his one-year anniversary.

Well. Dustin, Lucas, and Will are going to feel awful. Mike will probably think it's hilarious.

The point is, Steve knows Eddie didn't do this on purpose, and it's not that Eddie doesn't value his time with Steve enough to remember the date, and so he's merely irritated. Maybe a little exasperated. Not truly angry.

All he has to do is radio over to Wheeler's place and remind Eddie what the date is. His boyfriend will literally drop everything, will probably not even bother to pack up his precious miniatures and dice before he's tearing out of the driveway and breaking every traffic law imaginable to get to Steve's house. Steve doesn't actually want Eddie to get a ticket or anything, though. Besides.

He's feeling a little petty.

There's steaks waiting to be tossed on the grill, twice-baked potatoes in the oven, and a fucking homemade chiffon cake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream chilling in the fridge. Eddie's gift is sitting on the counter, in an elegant little gift bag tied with black ribbon.

"Hey Rob, you wanna come over for dinner?" he says into his walkie, deciding to let Fate decide if his boyfriend is listening and catches a clue.

"Do I get a piece of that cake you made?" Robin replies immediately, amusement already dancing in her voice because she's his (platonic) soulmate and she can read his mind.

"You can take the leftovers home," he says.

And then his (romantic) soulmate, who can usually read his mind, comes over the channel as well. "Have fun, babe!" Eddie says brightly. "This is probably going to run later than I thought. I'll probably just pick you up for breakfast tomorrow, okay?"

Steve rolls his eyes fondly. "Okay."

"Love you!" Eddie says, and signs off.

Robin brings a bottle of wine she stole from her parents' pantry and they demolish the dinner and half the cake. Steve does get another package of steaks out to thaw in the fridge for tomorrow, though, and blows out the fancy candles he'd lit before they burn too low to be used again. Fuck if he's making another chiffon cake, though, persnickety little thing. He calls Enzo's and orders a chocolate marble cheesecake to be picked up tomorrow.

"So you gonna milk this for a nice present or what?" Robin asks as Steve is packing the remains of the cake for her to take home, as promised.

"Nah. He's fucking perfect like 90% of the time...I'm not gonna get mad at him for the other ten." Robin smiles at him, a little gooey-eyed. Steve returns it with a smirk. "But I'm not letting him off the hook entirely."

He has just finished putting the dishes away when he hears the rumble of Eddie's van in the driveway. He glances down at his watch, laughing to himself a little when he notes that while late, it is far, far too early for a gaming session to be done. He scoops his little gift bag off the counter and saunters to the front door just in time for a frantic knocking to sound. He schools his features and opens the door.

"Steve! Stevie, baby, I am so, so sorry. I swear to God, I had tonight written down in like five different places, but Dustin wanted to try a new character class and we haven't done this campaign yet, and I got so excited...I'm so sorry I forgot, but I'm here and I SWEAR I will make it up to you!" Eddie pauses for breath, wild-eyed and panting.

Steve holds the silence for a moment, and then shakes his head, leaning forward to drop a kiss on Eddie's cheek. "You're such a nerd," he says, affection dripping from his words. He sighs. "I hope you know, now I'm expecting flowers tomorrow. And I get to pick the movies for, like, two weeks with no complaints."

Eddie almost wilts in relief. "Absolutely none," he promises, reaching out to grip Steve's hand. "I will make tomorrow night AMAZING. I promise."

Steve smiles at him, his chest aching with the love he feels for this man. But he's still feeling just a little bit petty. He holds the bag out to Eddie, tilting his head coyly. "You can still open this tonight, though."

"Babe! I thought we said no gifts." He takes the bag in his hands, plucking at the ribbon.

Steve's smile turns just a little sharper. He worked fucking hard on that cake. "It's kind of for both of us, really. It's what I was gonna wear up to bed tonight."

Eddie peeks in the box, his brow furrowing. "Stevie...there's nothing but strawberry lip gloss and a bottle of lube in here." He looks up, and freezes as his brain catches up with what his mouth just said.

Steve leans forward and kisses him, hard, long, and absolutely filthy. "Suffer," he whispers against his boyfriend's lips.

Then he shuts the door in his face.

[jess-i-e]

Eddie's ADHD brain and sporadic memory:

[munson-memories]

When Eddie first moved in, Wayne bought him a nightlight.

He still uses it occasionally when he gets sensory overload but for the most part it stays off.

after the upside down, its on every night

but Wayne doesnt say a word.

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(I plan on making this a full fic eventually, im just too impatient and wanted to squeeze this concept out to everyone)

(I know its kind of choppy, ive been struggling with my mental health for a long time and it effects the way i write, but eat up)

[bisexual-cryptid]

adhd eddie munson is something that can be so personal 😌

eddie is a very aggressively affectionate person. he just gets so overwhelmed by his emotions that he doesn’t know what to do with them. this means he’ll often just hit steve’s arm with his palms whenever he sees him. not hard enough to hurt, more like little love taps, just enough for them to be a little too close to painful. steve really doesn’t mind, he loves how eddie touches him and knows his love taps are just because he is excited to see him.

eddie has a bit of an oral fixation. he is almost always chewing on something be it hoodie strings, hair ties, his hair, his necklace, or steve. steve is his favorite one to chew on, leading to many hickeys whenever they’re together. not even in a sexual or promiscuous way either. it’s just that he loves steve so much and doesn’t know what to do with all the emotions he feels towards him so he’ll just chew on him. often times it will result in steve having hickeys and bite marks all over his arms and hands bc those are the most easily accessible to eddie.

the reason eddie got held back twice was because he has major gifted kid syndrome. he was a star student when he was a kid but then he got to high school and things just got harder. he had a hard time concentrating and he just didn’t understand what he was learning. if he couldn’t figure something out on the first try he would give up. which meant failing. a lot.

eddie is a very loud person but he actually has pretty bad social anxiety. he masks his anxiety with his loud voice and movements. if everyone already thinks he’s a freak, he can’t become even more of a freak to them. at least, that’s his reasoning behind it.

dnd and music are definitely his two biggest hyperfixations. he also loves lord of the rings but it’s not quite as big as the other two. he pours his entire heart and soul into every campaign and song he writes. often times steve will have to physically pull him to bed bc he has been working on a new campaign/song for 14 hours straight and hasn’t taken a break.

one of the reasons he wears so much jewelry and so many chains is to fidget with them. it helps that they also look metal as fuck, but he first started wearing them to play with throughout the day. it was something his uncle had suggested when he noticed how restless he would get sitting down for long periods of time.

he will often drink a cup of coffee right before bed. the first time steve sees him do it he is absolutely appalled because what are you doing eddie! you’re gonna be up all night! he just shrugs explaining it makes him sleepy. (steve is bewildered when eddie is out cold only a half hour later)

[chopper-witch]

If you write or draw with any of these headcanons and/or ships in mind, I owe you my life:

- ADHD and/or autistic Eddie, Autistic Robin, autistic Dustin, autistic El

- trans!Eddie, trans!Steve, and/or trans!Jonathan

- deaf!Steve

- Jargyle, Ronance, Steddie

- blind and paraplegic/quadriplegic Max who is actually treated like the human she is

- im sure there are more im forgetting rn

[justrandomfandomstm]

Stranger things Not-Canon things that i believe are Canon (mostly steve and eddie bc i love them but the others are mentioned) (idc if some cancel eachother idcidcidc)

Steve has a Latin/Italian mom and speaks spanish/Italian

Eddie is southern and loves country music but especially Dolly Parton. (also has the accent slip out when hes mad)

Steve is hard of hearing/deaf

^most if not all of them know asl

Eddie feeds the trailer park cats and has an army of loyal cats

Steve knows how to bake really well

Steve knows a lot about flowers, like a lot. Like he has books and books of it

Max becomes blind and has trouble walking, but she got some powers from when El entered her mind

Steve is dislexic and autistic

Eddie is adhd and autistic

everyone is autistic, honestly. Not one of them is neurotypical

Steve taught Lucas how to play and play every Wednesday in the park

Max and Eddie go on walks to the park every wednesday coincidentaly

Eddie taught Max guitar

Steve and Eddie are daughter parents idc, i cant see them with a son

Nancy is a lesbian

The scoops troop all played dnd together to help Erica learn

Steve and Eddie met when they were much younger and dont remember, but Wayne does and tells the story at their wedding

Eddie or Steve are mechanics, both can be true. Not at the same time though, one is a mechanic and the other constantly need their car fixed. You choose who is who

[vexed-n-hexed]

Okay, Eddie is always hyper, we know this. He’s a goofy, distracted, chatty dude. Steve loves his loud personality but he’s always nudging Eddie along. Reminding him of things & pointing things out that Eddie is too distracted to notice. He’s the perfect counterpoint to Eddie’s free spirit attention span.

So it’s funny that Steve would be totally oblivious when Eddie proposes. Because for once it’s like they’ve swapped places and Eddie is trying to get across that he’s freaking proposing here, this is serious, he put so much damn work into this grand gesture and Steve hasn’t even noticed yet.

Eddie thinks it’s the cutest thing ever. He can’t even be upset. Two idiots in love <3

[beep-beep-robin]

quick anecdote about robin in s4

yeah she acts different but have you considered she was masking in s3 because she wasn‘t comfortable around the others yet? in s4 she‘s mainly around steve, nancy, eddie and the kids. i feel like those characters definitely make her feel safe to be herself and let loose a bit

case in point: robin telling nancy about her issues with social cues right away so she already knows that fact about her, also nancy reassuring her before they enter the creel house, etc

eddie himself probably being ND, them bonding over being the „freaks“

the kids are… the kids and i think them just being themselves makes her open up more

and steve has been her best friend for a while now so it makes sense that she‘s more unmasked around him

[sky-neverending]

Neurodiverse and like Mental Health conditions are so coded into the Stranger Things characters. maybe that’s just me… but it makes sense, right?

Like Eddie. He deffo has some type of ADHD or Autism. both? maybe. hyperfixtated, fidgety, probably has trouble focusing, like all sorts of things make him scream those.

Steve is dyslexic. this doesn’t have any real reasoning behind it except i feel like he is. and I like the idea of people reading to him.

Dustin? ADHD.

Max? Bipolar? maybe? autistic maybe? definitely has depression. but like- idk.

Robin is autistic bc I said so. she also has anxiety maybe?

i could go on. and on and on and on. idk where i was going with this but yes ND party vibes fr. also they are all queer. which i’ve posted about already. all of my headcanons are queer and ND. so. fun!

[sapphirecobalt-1]

rip Eddie Munson, you would have loved fidget spinners 😔

[jess-i-e]

The ADHD urge to climb shit

[munson-memories]

Eddie or reader having a habit of preferring to sit on the floor instead of the sofa/couch and sometimes falling asleep there so they get them a dog bed

This isnt a kink thing, i just want a dog bed

[jonathanbiers]

eddie writes things he needs to remember or ideas on his hand/arm but he forgets to look at them bc he’s so used to them being there it ceases being something that draws his attention (it’s an adhd thing) so he starts writing them on steve instead

[justrandomfandomstm]

Things I think Eddie Munson does as a lil neurodyvergent shit that I do bc he is I:

Use his mouth as an extra hand, he just likes to carry things in his mouth like a puppy.

Drape a blanket over him like a lil burrito and goes everywhere with it when he feels bad. (steve almost dies when he sees his metal boyfriend on the couch completly draped over with a blanket pouting bc steve said he cant kiss him bc eddies sick)

Moves between hyperfixation drinks like tea and coffee, he likes to drink tea most days bc it wakes him up more than coffee.

He uses metal music to soothe his fast brain, thats how he got into it at first, its one of the only things that helps when hes understimulated.

Bites people he loves, randomly. (ik this is basically cannon but still)

hates socks but has to wear them for his boots, but he only likes the fuzzy ones.

His acoustic is a constant at home, he loves his electric but the strings hurt some days so he opts to the soft strings of the acoustic. Plus, Wayne loves it and he sometimes plays it so Wayne would sleep easier.

His stims are small and exited, shaking of hands and legs, but he also likes the occasional jumping everywhere.

Has a fidget ring.

changes into pjs the SECOND he gets home bc he hates the feel of his jeans for more time than necessary.

Carries a notebook with him for random thoughts.

writes poetry there but wont ever show anyone. He uses them for song lyrics.

Actally really likes jazz and the blues, "something about that bass man"

likes his hair up most of the time but it messes with the aesthetic so he keeps it down except when hes home.

Is undiagnosed bc that shit EXPENSIVE so he thinks something is wrong with him his whole life, until he finds a book about it when hes bored and cries bc he is so fucking happy to know whats going on with his brain. *bonus steddie (he talks to steve one day about it and steve helps him get an official diagnosis)*

has headaches constantly but has learned to live with them and ignores them, sometimes they get bad and he has to skip school. (got worse senior year and thats why he didnt pass the first times)

Actually likes math and the numbers but would never admit it.

Actually likes doing puzzles, can sit there for hours with music playing. It soothes him, the repetition of it.

Likes to poke his finger on his canines when hes bored or thinking

Is lactose intollerant but ignores it.

Bites his nails and finger skin when he's anxious

Just, extremly clumsy. Bumps into e v e r y t h i n g

Likes to touch people but not to be touched if he doesnt know you, only lets you after he knows you for at LEAST a week

warm blooded but cooled skined. Like he FEELS warm, but if you touch his hand or feet its an ice cube

HAS to have clean feet, hates when they get dirty. The trailors floor is always clean bc of this bc he likes to be barefoot

K thats all I can think of rn so enjoy and add on s you see fit.

[pullingyourstrings]

Headcanon: Eddie vocal stims A LOT. He will hear a funny word or a weird sentence and go around all day mumbling it to himself. He also sings all the time, from his favorite songs to silly songs he made up about daily tasks.