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Autistic character month 2026 prompts!

Autistic character month is a writing/art challenge starting on the first of April 2026. You can participate with writing and art about autistic characters (canonically autistic, or autistic to you; original characters are allowed as well). There are two prompts for each day. You can use just the first prompt, just the second prompt, or both, or replace one of them (or both) with a bonus prompt. You don't have to fill all the prompts / participate every day to participate in the challenge.

You can add your work to the collection on Ao3, tag your tumblr posts about/with your work as #autistic character month 2026, and tag me into your posts directly, and I will reblog them.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

You can find the prompts (as well as additional, more specific, ideas about them!!) below the cut.

For each day, the first prompt is an "autism prompt", and the second prompt (given in bold) is a "general prompt" (sometimes this distinction may seem quite vague). All the "bonus ideas" listed below are more specific interpretations of the "autism prompt"; you may use any of them as a point of inspiration if you like, but you may obviously write about any other different interpretation of the "autism prompt" as well.

Special interest + Music (bonus ideas: infodumping; intense cycles of special interests; sharing a special interest)

Communication difficulties + Intrigue (bonus ideas: not being understood; social cues, eye contact, volume control)

Proprioception & dyspraxia + Sportsball (bonus ideas: not noticing injury; autistic athletes with higher proprioception)

Meltdown / Shutdown + Dreams & nightmares

Comfort + Sick (bonus ideas: comfort item, clothing, food)

Loneliness & isolation + Movie

Accommodations & accessibility + Feeling understood by a teacher (bonus ideas: unconventional accommodations; individualized education program)

Comorbidities + Stargazing (bonus ideas: AuDHD, Auschizm, autism + OCD, other neurodivergence, autoimmune conditions)

Parallel play + Older/Younger

Relationships + Town fair / Carnival (bonus ideas: aro + ace spectrum; autistic intimacy)

Routine + Seasons

Masking / Unmasking + Dissociative Episodes (bonus ideas: unable to unmask; unmasking in front of someone for the first time)

Autistic play (organizing, sorting, lining up) + Memory

Food + Cooking (bonus ideas: picky eater; samefood)

Meeting another autistic person (for the first time) + Childhood (bonus ideas: undiagnosed character (who doesn't know much about autism) meets a diagnosed character, struggles to understand why they click so well; 5 + 1 (or 3 + 1) reasons character A suspects character B is autistic (character A could be autistic themself and seeing parallels); autistic child meets an autistic adult for the first time; meeting someone with the same special interest)

Underrepresented autistic traits + Outdoors (bonus ideas: the bad at maths style autism)

Bad sensory experiences + Overworking yourself

Diagnosis + Reading (bonus ideas: diagnosis later in life, struggling with a diagnosis)

Good sensory experiences + Water (bonus ideas: compression, favorite texture)

Touch + Hair braiding (bonus ideas: touch averse; a character who is simultaneously touch averse and touch starved; accepting / declining touch)

Speech & language (differences / difficulties) + Jack of all trades, master of none (bonus ideas: literalism; speech loss / verbal shutdown; selective mutism)

Stimming + Color (bonus ideas: musical stims; oral stimming; things you didn't realize were stims)

Community & acceptance + Holding hands for comfort

Caretaking + Wound tending

Emotions & Alexithymia + Grief/Mourning

Assistive tools + First date (stim toys, sensory regulation tools like noise-cancelling headphones, communicative devices like AAC, etc)

Empathy & theory of mind + Secret identity (bonus ideas: hyperempathy, hypoempathy, low theory of mind)

Difficulties & Struggles + Overthinking (bonus ideas: self-care and hygiene difficulties, skill regression, pathological demand avoidance)

Self-acceptance + Animals

Autistic joy + Makeup

Bonus prompts (you can replace any of the "general prompts" (given in bold) above with any of the "general prompts" below, likewise for "autism prompts". You can also combine the bonus prompts however you like).

It runs in the family

Sibling rivalry

Nonverbal / Semiverbal character

Limerence

Unlikely pairing (Autistic partner & ADHD partner)

Cuddling

Intersecting identities (autism & gender, culture, etc)

Time loop

Trauma

Found family

Hyperfocus

Misunderstandings

[meushell]

Overwhelmed

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83821121

Teen • Mostly Gen • 4,330 Words • Hurt/Comfort • Recovery

@autistic-character-month

Prompts • Day 17 - Bad sensory experiences 💡- Chapter 1 • Day 19 - Good sensory experiences + Water 💦 - Chapter 2

@gateathonworks

2026 Prompt • March • Jell-O 🟦

Cover Photos • Ocker • Sebastian Spence in Crash Site • The Alpha Site

Overwhelmed (4330 words) by Meushell Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Stargate SG-1 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Delek & Ocker, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Delek, Ocker Additional Tags: Two Shot, POV Outsider, Character Death Fix, Drama, Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Recovery, Some Fluff, Brothers, Alien Cultural Differences, Alien Culture, humans through alien eyes, Autistic Character, Delek’s Host is Autistic, autistic shutdown, Sensory Overload, PSTD, Food, Bathing Together, Tok’ra, Autistic Character Month 2026, GATEathon Works Summary: Having just arrived at the Alpha Site, Delek’s host is overwhelmed. The blanket scratches. The lights hurt. It’s too LOUD. Ocker balances helping him with his duties. Takes place during “Allegiance.”

[lovelikehomicide-ao3]

Autistic Character Month: 'Difficulties and Struggles'

I've got two or three stories for @autistic-character-month that I forgot to post. April was the Easter holidays in Australia, and I worked at a school holiday program, so I was too exhausted most days to proofread and post anything. Here's a very late story about executive function and personal hygiene!

Prompt: Difficulties and Struggles

Fandom: Young Dracula

Rating: T

Word Count: 1.4k

Focus: Robin & Vlad

The warm lamp light on the yellow walls makes the loungeroom glow. Vlad loves this—Saturday evenings at the Branagh house.

Stories in which nobody dies, told over good food and sugary drinks. Laughter that isn’t at anyone’s expense and doesn’t devolve into screams, stomps, and broken plates. No tense silence, broken only by Renfield’s occasional whimpers that his master is mad at him again.

A warm room, with a warm glow, that isn’t on fire. Furniture that isn’t dusty and a TV that he didn’t have to steal from the compartment under his dad’s throne.

Vlad sits tucked into the corner of the light green couch, a pillow hugged to his chest and his best friend beside him. He’s happy. It doesn’t matter that he can’t focus on the film—some horror flick about a haunted manor and a woman who should’ve known better than to go inside—because he isn’t here for that. He’s here for the company, and the mundanity.

Robin disagrees.

On the other couch, Ian and Paul are talking over each other, voices steadily rising. Robin flinches at each interruption. His eyes remained fixed on the screen, but it’s more a show of willpower than genuine interest. Vlad swears he can hear his friend’s teeth grinding.

‘—I'm telling you, she looked right at me—’

‘—Because you were standing in front of her, you muppet—’

‘—She smiled—’

‘—She laughed for me, you’re not special—’

‘—At you, bruv. She laughed at you—’

Robin shifts jerkily, then huffs.

Vlad is no longer watching the film, instead preparing to mediate the oncoming sibling spat. He should have talked Ingrid into coming with him. The twins are tolerable when they’re talking to—rather than about—her. There’s something to be said about Branagh men and obliviousness.

‘—I could ask her out—’

‘—You couldn’t ask your way out of a paper bag—’

‘Can you two shut up for five bloody minutes?!’ Robin snaps, turning his body to glare at the twins. ‘Ingrid wouldn’t be caught dead going out with either of you!’

The twins are quiet for a second, then:

‘Oooh.’ Ian leans forward. ‘Touchy.’

‘Ain’t that rich, coming from you?’ Paul laughs. ‘When’s the last time you went on a date? Or the first time?’

Robin goes stiff.

‘Leave it,’ Vlad mutters, low enough for only Robin to hear. ‘You know what they’re like. Let it go.’

‘While we’re talking numbers,’ Ian continues, grinning. ‘When was the last time you took a shower? Grade 6?’

‘Not going to get a girl smelling like a compost bin.’ Paul holds up his hand for Ian to high-five.

Robin’s out of the room and on the stairs before Vlad has even registered the movement.

He hesitates, watching the twins fall back into to their previous bickering, then gets up and follows. At least there's only one of Ingrid.

Robin’s door is half-closed. Vlad takes that as permission enough to go inside.

Robin is sitting on the edge of his bed, elbows on his knees and hands in his hair. Unlike in the lounge, the dim lighting of Robin’s bedroom is not warm, or welcoming, but Vlad can appreciate the sense of familiarity the dark colours and Halloween-style decorations bring.

Robin doesn’t look up.

Vlad closes the door and sits beside him, content to wait. Be a good friend. As he does this, he notices. The way Robin’s hair separates itself into thick, heavy-looking sections—nothing like the usual softness. How it’s darker, despite having not been dyed recently. The stench of deodorant—stronger than it should be, like it’s been layered.

Vlad frowns.

He hadn’t seen any of this before.

When time wears on and Robin still hasn’t spoken, Vlad initiates.

‘They’re idiots,’ he says.

‘They aren’t wrong, either. That’s the problem,’ Robin mutters.

‘You know what they’re like.’

Robin’s hands slide from his hair and fall heavily into his lap. ‘It’s not as if I like being grotty, it’s just…’

Vlad tilts his head. ‘What?’

Robin sighs—long, and tired, and frustrated. ‘I know this is going to sound daft,’ he says, ‘but it isn’t really about the shower itself. That takes, like, ten minutes? It’s about getting to it.’

‘Getting to it?’ Vlad doesn’t follow. There’s only one room between Robin’s and the main bathroom. It isn’t even the only one—there's a smaller bathroom downstairs, which also has a shower, just no tub. It’s fair easier than having to trek down the tower’s stairs or navigate up the dungeon’s labyrinth.

Robin flops backwards onto his bat-themed doona cover. ‘I’ll think about it. Like—properly think about it. I’ll tell myself: “right, I’ll have a shower after this”, and I’ll mean it. But then I have to get up. I have to grab clothes. I have to strip off, and get the water right, and go through everything it takes to actually get clean, and it’s—’ he pauses, mouth pulling into a tight line. ‘It’s just a lot, you know? It’s time I could spend doing something else, so that’s what I do. Then I feel like shit because I didn’t do it and it's even worse next time, like I’m on some kind of failure streak.’

Vlad watches him—how Robin’s jaw tenses, his hands wave about in obvious frustration, and how he doesn’t meet Vlad’s eyes. He recognises it for what it is: Shame.

The words don’t make sense, but he knows the emotion behind them, and it’s one he hates. He often struggles to understand Robin, but he does his best not to make his friend feel bad for being different. The rest of Stokely has that covered.

This is a problem, Vlad realises, and problems have solutions. He’s good at finding solutions. Schemes, plans, trial and error. It’s his specialty.

He thinks. Robin is overwhelmed, sure, but not by the activity itself. He just needs motivation. Something to make putting the time aside worthwhile.

‘How about I offer some incentive?’ Vlad asks.

Robin frowns. ‘Like what? You’ll do my homework for a week?’

‘No,’ Vlad says, smiling. ‘Better.’

Robin pulls himself up. He leans close, locking their eyes with an intense stare. ‘What have you got?’

‘Did you know my dad once met Vlad the Impaler?’

Robin’s mouth falls open. ‘…What?’

His smile morphs into a face-splitting grin. ‘Properly met him. Not just being in the same place at the same time, but an actual conversation. I’ve heard the story. You’ll like it.’

Robin’s eyes narrow. ‘You’re making that up.’

‘Nope.’

‘And you’ll tell me?’

‘After you shower.’

Robin blinks, then his eyes flick between Vlad’s and the door. He licks his lips. ‘Promise you’re not having me on?’

‘Yes.’

Robin sighs through his nose. ‘Fine,’ he says with a decisive nod. ‘See you in fifteen.’

[derekzakari]

Autistic Character Month - Masterlist

I had so much fun with this month's prompts from @autistic-character-month! It took me a bit to get the posting going, because ironically AuDHD burnout. But here's the entire list of all the fics I wrote for this months challenge!

Fandom: Teen Wolf | Autistic Stiles Stilinski

Day 1 - More of a Gift (Special Interest) Day 2 - Built By Hand (Communication Difficulties) Day 3 - Stay on Target (Proprioception & Dyspraxia + Sportsball) Day 4 - The Stiles Protocol (Meltdown/Shutdown) Day 5 - The Baby Koala Situation (Comfort) Day 6 - The Long Way Round (Loneliness & Isolation) Day 7 - Where Hands are Heard (Accommodations & Accessibility + Being seen by a teacher) Day 8 - What's Normal (Comorbidities + Stargazing) Day 9 - Sugarwolf to the Rescue (Parallel Play) Project STIL-E5 Day 10 - Seventeen Years vs Thirty Seconds (Relationships + Town Fair) Day 11 - Learning to Make a New Rug (Routines + Seasons) Day 12 - Peachy (Disassociate Episodes) Day 13 - Goldfish Crackers (Autistic Play) Project STIL-E5 Day 14 - The Thing About Mashed Potatoes (Food) Day 15 - The Sam Quotient (Meeting another Autistic) Day 16 - Closing the Loop (Underrepresented Autistic Traits (getting stuck/fixated on a topic) + Outdoors) Day 17 - Running SIlent (Bad Sensory Experiences) Day 18 - Page Seven Hundred and Sixty-Two (Reading) Day 19 - Stiles' Mute Button (Good Sensory Experience + Water) Day 20 - Third From the Corner (Touch) Day 21 - Ahh Shit, A Honchung (Speech & language) Day 22 - One Habit for Another (Stimming + Color) Day 23 - By Accident (Community & Acceptance) Day 24 - When Fear Moved In (Caretaking) Day 25 - Close Enough (Emotions + Alexithymia + Grief/Mourning) Day 26 - Because he Worries (Assistive Tools + First Date) Day 27 - The Wrong Kind of Right (Theory of Mind + Secret Identity) Day 28 - Gone on Her (Limerence - Alt) Day 29 - Never Dare a Stilinski (Intersectional Identities) Day 30 - Girl (Autistic Joy + Makeup) Bonus - For Science (Hyperfocus) I did the extra one because it fit and was already written. This started a lot of interesting questions. Ones I've been enjoying having.

Not sure what's next, I have a play that starts Monday and an intensive with Terry Knickerbocker next week. I wanted to do medwhumpmay all centering around invisible disabilities... but they didn't do prompts this year. I also may have not noticed that and worked out the entire month's prompts anyways and probably will still do them. I just don't have much time over the next week. Anyways I appreciate @autistic-character-month for hosting this and I hope this comes back next year!

[autistic-character-month]

A little late, but still: autistic character month 2026 is officially over!

At the point I'm writing this, we have 139 works for 43 fandoms (including original work) in the collection. Thank you to everyone who participated!

When I first had the idea of doing this, and honestly when I organized the prompts, I was not sure at all that anyone would try to complete the challenge entirely and write 30 whole works for it. Having three people do this really blew me away!

@parameciam, @mnictasbcl, and @derekzakari, thank you so much for your participation! I don't really know how to say it right, but it was really an honor to see so much of your creative energies dedicated to this challenge. I am really impressed and really grateful!

That being said, I really want to thank everyone else who participated as well! @lovelikehomicide-ao3, @meushell, @rosworms, @newwwwusername, @starlights-aib-sideblog, @salty--sapphic, @shifter-says-ow, @very-far-from-allowing, @theunseeliemperoress, @greenvillainredemption, @mypurplehairisfake, @solariscrowvid, @confusedunit, @gillyporter and everyone else who added to the collection: thank you to each and every one of you! It was wonderful to see your contributions! And if you made something for the challenge and are not tagged in this post, don't hesitate to tell me.

The collection is still open and will remain so indefinitely; if any prompt grabs your attention, you can still write for it and add your work to the collection. I will probably stop checking the tag, but I will continue reblogging anything I am tagged in, so feel free to tag me if you write anything.

I'll make a google form asking about your experiences participating in the challenge and thoughts on the prompts soon, keep an eye out for that. Otherwise, this was wonderful, and I hope we'll do this again next year!

[autistic-character-month]

Autistic character month 2026 masterpost

This post links to the tags on this blog for every day and prompt. The original prompts post can be found here, and the collection on ao3 here.

Day 1: Special interest + Music

Day 2: Communication difficulties + Intrigue

Day 3: Proprioception & dyspraxia + Sportsball

Day 4: Meltdown / Shutdown + Dreams & nightmares

Day 5: Comfort + Sick

Day 6: Loneliness & isolation + Movie

Day 7: Accommodations & accessibility + Feeling understood by a teacher

Day 8: Comorbidities + Stargazing

Day 9: Parallel play + Older/Younger

Day 10: Relationships + Town fair / Carnival

Day 11: Routine + Seasons

Day 12: Masking / Unmasking + Dissociative Episodes

Day 13: Autistic play (organizing, sorting, lining up) + Memory

Day 14: Food + Cooking

Day 15: Meeting another autistic person (for the first time) + Childhood

Day 16: Underrepresented autistic traits + Outdoors

Day 17: Bad sensory experiences + Overworking yourself

Day 18: Diagnosis + Reading

Day 19: Good sensory experiences + Water

Day 20: Touch + Hair braiding

Day 21: Speech & language (differences / difficulties) + Jack of all trades, master of none

Day 22: Stimming + Color

Day 23: Community & acceptance + Holding hands for comfort

Day 24: Caretaking + Wound tending

Day 25: Emotions & Alexithymia + Grief/Mourning

Day 26: Assistive tools + First date

Day 27: Empathy & theory of mind + Secret identity

Day 28: Difficulties & Struggles + Overthinking

Day 29: Self-acceptance + Animals

Day 30: Autistic joy + Makeup

Bonus prompts:

It runs in the family

Sibling rivalry

Nonverbal / Semiverbal character

Limerence

Unlikely pairing (Autistic partner & ADHD partner)

Cuddling

Intersecting identities (autism & gender, culture, etc)

Time loop

Trauma

Found family

Hyperfocus

Misunderstandings

[parameciam]

[Image ID: It's a banner for the post. The background image is a scene from the opening of season one of the TGCF donghua, in tones of purple and pink, with stylized silhouettes of heavenly officials walking in the heavens. The text of the banner says: "AUTISTIC CHARACTER MONTH: MASTERPOST. it's also my autism diagnosis anniversary month! double celebration!" There's a cartoon cat carrying a birthday cake on the left side of the text, and an infinite symbol with the pride flag colors, tilted to the left, on the right side of the text. /.End ID]

This is a very special month for me and this event was perfect to celebrate it! So I've written several different fics to participate, all centered on TGCF characters. Yes, in plural! It's not only Quan Yizhen, but of course he's the most recurrent muse for these works :D

I will keep updating this masterpost every day, until the end of the event.

Day 1 - Special interest

Day 2 - Communication difficulties

Day 3 - Proprioception

Day 4 - Meltdown + Nightmares

Day 5 - Comfort

Day 6 - Loneliness and Isolation

Day 7 - Accommodations and Accessibility

Day 8 - Comorbidities

Day 9 - Parallel play

Day 10 - Relationships

Day 11 - Routine

Day 12 - Masking / Unmasking

Day 13 - Autistic play

Day 14 - Food

Day 15 - Meeting another autistic person (for the first time)

Day 16 - Non verbal / Semi verbal

Day 17 - Bad sensory experience

Day 18 - Diagnosis

Day 19 - Good sensory experience

Day 20 - Touch

Day 21 - Speech & Language

Day 22 - Stimming

Day 23 - Community & Acceptance

Day 24 - Caretaking

Day 25 - Emotions & Alexithymia

Day 26 - Assistive tools

Day 27 - Empathy & Theory of mind

Day 28 - Difficulties & Struggles

Day 29 - Self Acceptance

Day 30 - Found family

[salty--sapphic]

Saph's April Fics | Autistic Character Month Master Post

Four fics for this month, done for @autistic-character-month's event!

My series on AO3 | Event Collection on AO3

Day 14: Food + Cooking | Infinifluff's April image prompt — New Friends

There's a very important visitor Hunk needs to be cooking much faster for. (As with March 14th, a crossover with @fluffbruary's year long event!)

General Audiences — Hunk/Keith — Voltron: Legendary Defender

Day 20: Touch + Hair Braiding — Braiding Comfort

Keith swears he's touch adverse, as he hates the idea of touch in any form. Kolivan is determined to prove him wrong.

General Audiences — Kolivan & Keith — Voltron: Legendary Defender

Day 24: Wound Tending — Bleeding on the Motel Room Couch

Naegi has gotten himself into a potentially dangerous situation, but Kamukura needs his help. And really, they don't look all that dangerous.

Mature — Naegi Makoto/Kamukura Izuru — Danganronpa

Day 28: Difficulties & Struggles — The Bathtub Is Your Kryptonite

Kamkura continues to take up Naegi's couch, not that he was using it, and Naegi continues his attempts at understanding.

Mature — Naegi Makoto/Kamukura Izuru — Danganronpa

[parameciam]

I FINISHED THE AUTISTIC CHARACTER MONTH CHALLENGE!

final word count: 49655 words (!!!!)

Link to the series on AO3 HERE

honestly i still feel quite insane and the adhd won't even give me a sense of real accomplishment LMAO. idk how i did this but i do know why i did it. and i'm glad i decided to do it.

i had (and still have, tbh) too many ideas in store about them all and especially about the autism/nd coded way in which some characters are written. this challenge was a perfect opportunity to explore those ideas without overcomplicating myself as i tend to do.

predictably i focused a lot on quan yizhen because i am the ceo of autistic quan yizhen, but i also felt brave and threw my audhd xie lian in there + my autistic+ocd yin yu. i wrote poetry and also wrote a very experimental thing that made my brain wither while proofreading but was worth it. i got to write about my beloved west trio.

when my spoons replenish i will actually proofread things (i know that there must be plenty of typos and weird stuff since this was all done without a beta and forcing myself to not overthink) and also add proper summaries for all the fics, probably also add stuff in the notes since i always love to yap (but this time, the more i posted the guiltier i felt for posting so much so i guess i didn't want to be perceived) (but i still want people to read my stuff... yeah i know my brain makes zero sense).

it was an excellent writing exercise and i truly feel it got easier for me to get the words out the more i kept going :'D

anyways! i have to especially extra super thank @tinysobek and @sobanvallion for their constant encouragement and support through their comments. and @thelinbean for helping me with many of the plot elements whenever i got stuck. even if you can't actually beta my works you always help me so much. i would have given up on this challenge on like, day 9 if not for you three ;u; and of course, last but not least: all my love and thanks to the organizers of @autistic-character-month for giving us all a chance to explore canon, headcanon and original autistic characters, and open the conversations in fandom about ND characters ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ the prompts were amazing! thank you for all your hard work <3

i hope whoever reads any of the works i shared this month gets to smile and also to think a bit more about autism and autistic people outside the usual stereotypes and assumptions. there's so much to learn and explore!

[derekzakari]

Autistic Character Month: Bonus - For Science

@autistic-character-month prompt: Hyperfocus

Teen Wolf | Trans Male Stiles | Autistic Stiles

Everything Stiles has found online covers binding, packing, shaving, voice training. None of them mention bathroom acoustics.

He leans back and listens.

That…

Is that a guy peeing sound?

Or a girl peeing sound?

It’s a ridiculous question. Stiles knows it is.

Pee is pee. Water hitting water. Physics doesn’t care about gender. The sound doesn't change if you are sitting down or standing up.

Still.

Read on AO3

[operating on spite and goblin instincts. If you enjoyed this, you may leave an offering]

[derekzakari]

Autistic Character Month: Day 30 - Girl

@autistic-character-month prompt: Autistic Joy + Makeup

Teen Wolf | Trans Male Stiles | Drag Queen Stiles

Being a man meant being handsome and rugged. Right? Stiles thought as a trans man, it meant giving up the soft things. Stiles is twenty-one before he really understands that isn't true. Because it turns out, queer spaces have a language of their own, and sometimes the most affirming thing someone can say is the last word you ever wanted to hear.

Her name was Valentina Cruz, and she was a Drag Queen who had the sharpest eye Stiles ever encountered outside of a crime scene.

"You want to start with the contour stick," she said, perched on the edge of the vanity table with her arms crossed, watching him the way a coach watches a player who doesn't know they're good yet. "The brown one."

Stiles reached for the nearest one. Valentina's expression didn't change.

"That's Sunbaked Sienna. That's a bronzer. Put it down." "They're the same color." "They are not the same color." "They are objectively —" "The other brown. No. That’s Toasted Walnut. Yes. That one."

Stiles held it up. "There are six browns."

"And you'll learn the difference."

Read on AO3

[operating on no sleep & feral needs. If you enjoyed this, you may leave an offering]

[parameciam]

My final entry for @autistic-character-month is here! Going full circle, I guess, since it's a HuaLianQuanYin piece c: And same as yesterday, this is kind of stealing a scene from a wip that I'm not sure if I'll ever finish, but still wanted to share some of the ideas, so... this was my chance.

i wanna lay like this forever by Parameciam

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tian Guan Ci Fu | Heaven Official's Blessing - Moxiang Tongxiu Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hua Cheng/Xie Lian/Quan Yizhen/Yin Yu Characters: Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Quan Yizhen, Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Yin Yu (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Queerplatonic Relationships, Polyamory, Autistic Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu), references to canon past horrors, Cuddling & Snuggling, Xie Lian Has Chronic Pain (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Quan Yizhen is the perfect weighted blanket, quan yizhen hua cheng and yin yu comfort xie lian on a bad day, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Implied Polyamorous Relationship Series: Part 30 of Autistic Character Month 2026, Part 3 of HuaLianQuanYin vignettes Summary: Written for Autistic Character Month 2026 - Day 30: Found family + trauma

<< Previous | Masterpost

[derekzakari]

Autistic Character Month: Day 29 - Never Dare a Stilinski

@autistic-character-month prompt: Self- Acceptance + Intersectional Identities (Gender, Culture, etc)

Teen Wolf | Trans Male Stiles | Trans Experience

Jackson thinks he knows exactly what Stiles can and can’t do. He’s wrong on both counts. Stiles takes great pleasure in demonstrating that fact.

“He can’t do it,” Jackson laughs. “He doesn’t even have the equipment.”

Stiles’ mouth twitches, trying not to smile because… he has a secret Jackson doesn’t know about.

When he started transitioning, the first thing he got – besides a binder – was an STP.

"A stand-to-pee device!" he'd whisper-shouted at Scott when he asked what an STP was.

He’s been using the urinal for years.

So this dare? To write his name in the snow?

A little trickier, requires more concentration to keep the stream constant but not overfill the device, but Stiles is pretty sure he can do it.

Read on AO3

[operating on spite and goblin instincts. If you enjoyed this, you may leave an offering]

[derekzakari]

Autistic Character Month: Day 28 - Gone On Her

@autistic-character-month prompt: Limerence (Alt)

Teen Wolf | Autistic Stiles | Season 3B

Stiles has been in love with Lydia Martin since the day she moved to Beacon Hills. Any time he'd forget, she'd say his name or brush past him and he'd be gone on her all over again. He thinks that's what love is. Dr. Morell has a different word for it.

Stiles has been staring at a water stain on the ceiling all night. He came back to it after breakfast, trying to figure out what it looks like when she just appears in the doorway like she's been standing there a while. She doesn't knock, but she never does.

"How are you sleeping?"

“Good morning, Stiles!” he doesn’t even mimic her voice. “Why Good morning, Dr. Morrell. How are you?” he continues giving the other side of the conversation, making fun of how she never does normal conversations. Stiles knows, he’s been cataloging normal conversations his entire life. “I’m good Stiles. You?” Stiles returns to his sarcastic parody.

“Stiles,” she states without inflection. Not annoyance, but definitely done.

Stiles sighs. "Roughly.” Then he turns to glance at her, "You?"

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Detroit: Divergent- Forging Family

Chapter Twelve April 30th Prompt: Autistic Joy

A story for @autistic-character-month's 2026 challenge!

Fandom: Detroit: Become Human Relationships: Hank Anderson & Connor, Amanda & Connor, Amanda & Hank Summary: Following a successful android revolution, Connor and Hank escape to Canada to lay low while things settle down in Detroit. Canada: an android safe haven, provided androids hide who they are or face the consequences. A place where they will both face secret demons from their pasts. How will they fare in this new world together?

OR: Reverse AU with human Connor and android Hank, navigating a post-canon timeline with the aftermath of the android revolution. Also, Amanda is alive and she’s a human.

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Also, that's a wrap for this writing challenge! Thank you for creating the awesome and inspiring prompts in this challenge, @autistic-character-month, I've had lots of fun! :)

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Autistic Character Month: Day 27 - The Wrong Kind of Right

@autistic-character-month prompt: Theory of Mind + Secret Identity

Stiles figures out who the Darach is before anyone else. Stiles has known for weeks. He has timestamps, locations, and a brain that catalogued Jennifer Blake as wrong before he even knew her name. He told Scott. He told Chris Argent, who believed him but said it wasn't enough. Yet. Being believed and still told wait is its own particular kind of terrible. Then his dad doesn't come home. He hates being so goddamn right.

Two days later, she mentions in passing that she grew up in Beacon Hills, and the way she says it is practiced. He knows practiced. He has practiced. He has whole monologues he's written and rehearsed for situations people navigate instinctively — how to comfort someone, how to deflect teasing without making it weird, how to signal that you're following the conversation when you're not sure if your face is doing the right thing. He has them all memorized. Jennifer Blake is working from a script. The reference to her childhood is a prop she's picked up and set down before.

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Autistic Character Month: Day 26 - Because He Worries

@autistic-character-month prompt: Assistive Tools + First Date

Teen Wolf | Autistic Stiles | Season 1

Stiles gets roped into Scott & Allison's double date at the bowling alley. Along with Danny. Because Scott said he could bowl. He cannot. Stiles' dad worries though. This is the first time he's been out with friends beyond Scott. He's a cop. He totally can spy on his kid without getting caught. Right?

Scott, who had been claiming since the parking lot that he was very good at bowling, released the ball at an angle and it skittered hard right, vanishing into the gutter before it reached the pins.

Jackson laughed.

Stiles raised his phone.

The app said, in its flat, pleasant voice: "You missed."

"I know I missed," Scott said.

"You missed by a lot."

"I know how much I missed."

"Why did you say you were good at this."

"Stiles—"

"You are terrible at this."

"Okay, we don't have to—"

Lydia, seated on the orange molded bench with her score sheet, uncapped her pen without looking up. "He has a point."

He watched Scott gutter his second attempt before he came back and flopped into the seat on Stiles' other side. "Try using the bumpers next time," the app offered helpfully, and Stiles did not look up from the screen while Scott made a complicated betrayed face at him.

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