#autistic prince zuko

[meowmeowriley]

Hi MeowMeow Costume anon here sorry it’s taken a couple days for me to reply life got busy finding one’s honour is harder then I thought!

You want my autistic head canons for Zuko? Strap in for some unhinged rambling because I have ✨thoughts✨ this will be long

(CW: implied child abuse (Fuck Ozai))

Zuko likes music (Iroh mentiones he’s talented with the Tsungi horn) and his swords I also think he would have picked up dancing at some point with how he moved during dance of the dragons.

When he’s around people he trusts he emotes more with his face and masks less in general and I’d say if he felt safe enough he’d do more overt (for him) stimms like humming, minor rocking or tugging on his hair Iroh would be one of his safe people and eventually the gaang would be too

*I don’t think he’d have very obvious stimms in general being raised royal he’d be expected to act a certain way and hand flaps are not it. Also flaming 💩lord Ozai would have seen any aberrations as weakness and stamped that shit out fast

*I honestly think it could be one of the reasons the flaming 💩lord despises Zuko being inherently different would be a weakness in his eyes and reflect badly on him

I think he and May get along well because they’re both autistic and are a safe space for each other. she has trouble processing her emotions he has trouble controlling his they make good emotional counter balances

He cares so much about the people and animals around him even his enemies a strong sense of justice is a common sign of autism and speaking out of turn was the initial reason for his banishment.

He’s so socially awkward he doesn’t know how to talk with people instead of at them his entire pep talk to himself and subsequent introduction to the gaang when he tries to join them is peak “how do you do fellow kids” and his “that’s rough buddy” is as iconic as it is socially inept.

The guy totally hyper fixated on hunting the Avatar and when he could no longer find his purpose in it and realised he was wrong he did not cope

He has no tackt. none. and he takes things at face value and he hates lying his humour is also a little left leaning and he tries to relate to others and their experiences as a way of bonding.

While he’s not a prodigy fire bender like his sister he found ways around his limitations that helped accentuate his natural talents like his sword fighting (dancing would help with sword work) being incorporated into his bending (I don’t remember any other character bending with weapons).

He’d know a lot about tea from Iroh and I think he enjoyed working in the tea shop

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk!

I hope these make sense it’s kinda late now but this was fun to write thanks for reading my insane rambles :D

Also in response to the (non gendered) Prince! line you gave me so much surprise gender euphoria I cried 😭🫠🥹 sincerely thank you. I’m going with he/him pronouns atm but he/they is something I want to look into.

if you don’t mind me asking what are your pronouns?

I’ll probably send another ask in the next couple of days to annoy you with lol but in the meantime have a great day!

Sorry I took so long to get back to this, but damn I needed it today so I guess it's good I kept this in reserve. ❤

Holy shit, I can't unsee Zuko as autistic now. Like it's impossible. He's so perfectly coded to be on the spectrum. He's generally monotone, until he's not, and that's always when he's dealing with big emotions. He'd be a lip biter for sure.

Zuko doing dance as a stim 😍 the first time the Gaang sees him dancing when he thinks he's alone, they'd be so supportive, and have no idea what that would mean to him.

Fire lord Zuko infodumping about tea to some random person who tried to ask if he'd like them to make him some, as he heats the tea himself with his bending, and damn if that isn't the best tea that servant has ever had in their life.

Until next time my non gendered Prince Zuko! (Which will be in like, a few minutes, when I get to your other ask. Again sorry for the wait 😭 I'm bad at this)

[autistic-hc-bracket]

Round 2: Gregory House vs Prince Zuko

Propaganda is encouraged, and may I remind you of the arc where House starts fights with his friends about a blood stained carpet being replaced?

[andreamland]

Zuko and Azula as the Autistic creature and ADHD creature.

[reikorei]

alt modern day zuko is the only modern zuko i‘ll accept !!

[audhd-nightwing]

zuko 🤝 hunter

autistic-coded reformed villains with scars and daddy issues

[jovialcloudqueenisnotonfire]

i really should get used to it but i continue to be surprised every time i’m reading a zuko-centric fic and it instead feels like the fic is reading me instead. 

i like to read them because i relate to zuko so much, but when some other character says something poignant that makes zuko rethink his entire worldview, it also shifts my entire worldview. and like, i’m just trying to relax and have fun but instead i’m being sent to fucking therapy by these ao3 authors

i’m literally autistic with abusive/neglectful parents that i escaped at 16 so likkeee he’s me but worse. i had an older sister who was good and helped and he had a younger sister who was bad and made things worse 

if my life were a story, i could write an essay comparing our two narratives for my english composition II class. we are two sides of the same coin. two flavors of the same drink. he’s mango habanero wings and i’m garlic parmesan 

[burntcape]

he MAD !!

[dartxo]

"Sifu Hotman"

2021

[autisticboybattleroyale]

Zuko X Terra

[anna-jo]

just realized canon zuko is how the fandom perceives nico di angelo, and canon nico is how the fandom perceives zuko and i don't know what to do with this information

[pensiveabstraction]

hc that zuko is autistic (he just like me fr) and has a firepit in his bedroom that he keeps lit at night, not for any temperature reasons but because he got used to having noise (of the ocean) when he slept on the ship, and now he can't sleep without it. also he makes popping noises with his mouth and snaps his fingers subconsciously as stims

[autistic-hc-bracket]

Round 1: Yor Forger vs Prince Zuko

The Submission Form (submissions are open until I finish posting round 1)

Propaganda is encouraged!

[ssimonsays]

My baby girl ♥️🔥

[punkeropercyjackson]

Being a bigender autistic with a special interest in parallels is actual hell because i'll be noticing all kinds of shared traits and dynamics across unconnected media that break my heart in a good way or make feel all warm inside and give me nostalgia or at least laugh because they're so silly but then a bunch of people will make posts of characters who have entierly nothing in common and say 'Look!!!They're the same gender,omg it's actually crazy how much they have in common!Same character different font <3' and every single one of them gets high triple didgit number notes at the very least if i'm lucky or creates a whole subfandom based around them if i'm not and i just gotta live with that instead of going completely loco

[starthem]

more autistic Zuko thoughts

- having his face get half melted off is already bad but dealing with Iroh’s metaphors? Worse. He doesn’t get them at all and he always takes them literally

- he has a rough time in romantic relationships because he finds no one ever just tells him what they need and that frustrates him

- weighted blanket user but like the heaviest weighted blanket ever made because that boy is ripped

-HATES the texture of velvet to the point where all the velvet curtains in the palace had to be replaced with another sensory friendly fabric

- didn’t get a diagnosis until later in life, after the war was over and he could focus on his mental well-being and went “oh… that explains a lot.” Iroh seems to already have known. (Of course he has)

[roshambo05]

Zuko's classic "that's rough, buddy," is probably the most autistic thing I've ever seen. Also him practicing conversations before having them. Also him getting really obsessive over things. Also his flat intonation and lacking social skills. Also-