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ineffablelvrs · 1 year
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chopper-witch · 2 years
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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
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sinclairstarz · 2 months
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quick silly doodle bcs im playing with a new brush / messing with my art style :3 theyre red!!!!
autism flags under the cut:
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i have collections of these matching different characters so
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transmascwillbyers · 8 months
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as i write my fic i am once again reminded of how autistic the entire hopper-byers family is
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it really is just me and my little autistic headcanons against the world huh.
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drewgoodenenjoyer · 2 years
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someone should draw all the stranger things kids and older teens with tangles !!! they existed in the 80s so it would make sense !!!
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“They’re not coming back, are they?” Robin’s voice was quiet enough that Steve almost missed it over the ringing in his ears.
“I don't know,” he replied, and Robin gave him a look. “I don’t want to say it - but they should be back. They love their kids too much.”
OR
a post season three rewrite where hopper and joyce never returned from the russian base. what started as a joke of being babysitters becomes reality as steve, robin, nancy and jonathan suddenly find themselves thrust into looking after all the kids as they navigate the grief from all the people lost.
it doesn't help that everything seems to be getting worse again, that the upside down may not be fully gone. it doesn't help that they can barely afford to look after anyone, let alone make sure the law doesn't get involved. it doesn't help that feelings between people in the group may be more complex than first thought.
they can't change the past but they can change the future. and hey, maybe this year is their year, right?
chapter fifteen: lucas makes a decision. it goes over well (horribly)
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tastytoecheese · 1 year
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El
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Will (specifically s2)
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Mike
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Joyce Byers just collects autistic children.
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I'm asking you about your autistic Eleven headcanons because I'm fascinated to hear about them, especially with the intersection between it and her post institutionalization syndrome
I’m more than happy to share my thoughts on this!
@strangerthings4theories actually was the person who first put this headcanon on my radar, so go check out this post by them on it. Full disclosure, I am not diagnosed autistic, although I’m about as sure that I am as possible without a clinical diagnosis. I’ve only been researching autism for a few months, so my understanding may be flawed in some areas, but I’ll do my best.
So, from my very brief research, post-institutionalization syndrome can result in behaviors that look autistic to an outsider’s perspective, in addition to some anger issues. Many of these traits include speech delays, repetitive motions such as rocking, difficulties with eye contact, and sensory issues, especially when pertaining to physical touch.
Based on this (admittedly inadequate and outdated) research, post-institutionalization syndrome seems to be something that can sometimes be acclimated out of during puberty, but it does often take years to unlearn. The two can look very similar.
So, reasons for my autistic El headcanon:
She struggles verbally and exhibits what I would label as echolalia. El says very little on her own at first, and she seems to learn words by repeating them. This could be connected to the coma she supposedly went into after the Hawkins Lab Massacre, but I still lean toward autism as the root.
She is deeply emotional but struggles to regulate those emotions. We’ve seen her express a wide range of emotions, but when she’s in emotional distress, she tends to lash out. She breaks Troy’s arm with her powers. When she sees Max with Mike, she immediately trips Max’s skateboard. She breaks several windows when she finds out about her mom. She attacks Angela with a skate and gives her a grade two concussion.
She has extremely high empathy. Her ability is quite literally to connect with people. She saves her friends by tapping into the emotions she has from good memories with them. She exhibits many of the same emotions as the person she is near. She is kind to Billy and uses his good memory of his mom to remind him, “you were happy.” And as silly as I think this was, her pep talk from Mike and her choice to focus on kindness and love over evil is what allows her to win. (This is kind of iffy toward the end, but it felt relevant)
She doesn’t fully understand social cues or boundaries, so she mimics others. She mirrors the boys in s1, she mirrors Hopper and Kali in s2, and she behaves like Mike and later Max in s3, and we also see her mirror Will in s4. We see her sit in the recliner the way Mike did in s1. She takes her cue from whoever she deems the most in-charge person in the group. She also mimics fashion from them too, such as her more boyish style in s2 and her more feminine look in early s3. Even her hair in s4 is strongly reminiscent of Joyce.
She feels inhuman and out of step with her peers. She says what she has to in order to seem normal and fit in. We hear her ask several times in the show, “am I a monster?” She tells Mike that she doesn’t fit in in Hawkins, at Lenora Hills, or anywhere. She’s also told she’s different by Henry, who makes her difference out to be a superiority.
She dresses primarily for comfort. This is especially evident in s2 with her cozy shirts and overalls, but it’s also true in other seasons. Even as bright as the colors are in some of her s3 outfits, they still prioritize comfort and freedom of movement. She wears soft and warm textures almost constantly in s4.
She has routines and safe foods. Eggos are obviously a safe food for her, considering her love for them. She also keeps careful track of when Hopper is supposed to be back from work. Even her preparation to enter the void is a sort of routine. She keeps the door open three inches, even after Hopper’s disappearance.
El’s initial reaction to the roller rink debacle comes across like sensory overload. This final detail was what really started the headcanon in full force for me. The noise, the feeling of the world spinning around you, being overwhelmed by the lights and all the people. It had me immediately going “that is sensory overload. That right there is what it feels like.”
So there you have it! I’ll be honest, I wasn’t aware of post-institutionalization syndrome before now, but I enjoyed the research. Most of my reasons for headcanoning El as autistic could go either way. The two look pretty similar sometimes, I’ll admit, but I think that there’s room for both interpretations in fan works, and I’m curious to hear anyone else’s thoughts if they’d like to add on!
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Eddie, Dustin, and El are all autistic
that’s it.
that’s the whole post.
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bethhiraeth · 1 year
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Wait this is hilarious when you think about it like every single fucking character in stranger things is/could be interpreted as autistic. Like, Mike? Obviously. Robin? without a question. Nancy and Will and Jonathan? i get the vibes. El?? YES
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mike 🤝 el
being bad posture autistic gays
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deathon1leg · 2 years
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all the byers siblings are autistic and their autisms annoy each other. their autisms are fighting clawing at each other biting scratching etc but in a sibling way
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transmascwillbyers · 1 year
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Okay wait, I did a "gayest character" poll with these same five and now I want to test a hypothesis, so:
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cosm0tology · 1 year
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okay so… i did make one post going more in depth about this one and just completely fucked off but i’ve been wanting 2 make more as of late- and next up we have will byers (:
pt. 1
this guy’s definitely got some autism going on like there’s zero doubt about it
all you have to do is ask him one question about his special interest/s and he’s going crazy
especially if you seem genuinely interested in what they have to say
while he’s info dumping, ask him questions
they eat that shit up
and there’s zero convincing me that he’s just cisgender
he/they non-binary
and they’ll occasionally go by she
like every once in a blue moon
every few halloweens y’know he’s like okay,,,, i know i’m dressed up as my d&d character but im feeling pretty womanly
special interests are art, d&d, and they also really like flowers because i said so
and he’s in love w mike (he also has autism) btw
mike gives them dahlias for special occasions because they’re will’s absolute favorite and will, of course, eats it up like spaghetti
his ways of stimming r definitely things like bouncing on his feet, flappies, he also dances because. i said so ( he told me himself )
i’m like 90% percent sure i’ve already posted this headcanon at some point but will and el ( who also has autism ) pretend to be superheroes. they just do
will even makes them masks for it
his is yellow and el’s is red (her favorite color is red and if you disagree you’re wrong)
then they use blankets as capes
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