#my ear's ringing loooud so apologies if some of this doesnt make sense

[lumaxramblings]

Autistic Max headcanons?

GOD BLESS YOU ANON !!!!!!

she never gets diagnosed, and if she does she gets it much much later, due to it being the 80s and all, plus women are still underdiagnosed now and i dont think they even thought women fit the criteria? so ya she doesnt get diagnosed, at least not for ages

girlie alternates between staring non-stop at you (excerpt from runaway max: “my mom was always telling me to stop giving people that bug-eyed look. she said the way i stared at people, it was like i was trying to pull them apart piece by piece.” autism!! <3), and being unable to look them (which we see in season 4 multiple times)

here's the max mayfield stimming compilation you didn't know you needed :)

she masked quite a bit before billy and neil came in the picture but after that she masked so so much, mostly consciously, because billy would use any and all of it against her, and it became a survival tactic

max used to have frequent verbal shutdowns when she was younger, and her dad did too, so he taught her some ASL (his brother's Deaf) so she could communicate, and it was one of the reasons she was so upset at leaving her dad, because it meant she couldn't learn more

she fidgets with her hands a lot, but holds it back whenever she's with billy because he thought it was annoying. she tries to stim whenever she can get away with it though

max's comfort foods are always stuff that have some level of spice in them, as she loves the feeling it brings her, but when she moves to midwest she hates all the food bc it's bland as shit

it's already canon but. listening to songs on repeat until she physically cannot anymore. that's happened more times than she can count on two hands.

thats all i have for now, i hope u enjoyed this :)