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[image description by @kallistoi: two photos of the map described above, pinned to a wall. the scraps include pieces of paper, post-its, napkins, and a paper plate, all with directions drawn on them.]
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I just love the idea that Peter is a natural red head or strawberry blonde but dyes his hair brown so he doesn't stand out as much high school was hard enough being nerdy ya know and hiding powers
And like maybe SOMEONE does a surprise college visit to MIT and it's after Peter has stopped dying his hair cause ya know... the bullies aren't here at his college, fresh start.
He plans on dying it back brown when he goes home for summer.
He is normally in his spidey suit when visiting the compound or the tower so he doesn't have to reveal his roots coming in. [ or he uses touch up spray]
I dunno... this is speaking to me right now...
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Excuse me? Is that a Sterek reference in my Deadpool!?! I cackled so hard. (Deadpool #7)
Stiles: Don't ask me for relationship advice, okay? I was wooed with deer bones. I advocate violence and crimes. I am not the person to ask.
I FOUND THIS IN MY CAMERA ROLL ALDKALDJAL WHO EVEN MADE THIS I HAVE NO MEMORY LMAO
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The Misdiagnosed Tragedy of Stiles
(How Adderall Summoned The Nogitsune)
Time for me to really stretch out that Psychology degree, folks. I've also taken the liberty of quoting several different articles.
Stiles Stilinski does NOT have ADHD. He actually has PTSD and has been misdiagnosed since childhood.
Let me explain:
In season 5, we see Stiles reliving a memory he repressed, when he was 10 years old, of his mother attacking him in the late stages of her dementia.
This memory had been so traumatic and so deeply buried that it had taken SUPERNATURAL means to uncover it.
As stated by these two articles, PTSD and ADHD exhibit many of the same symptoms:
The reason children are more likely to be diagnosed as ADHD is because no psychologist/therapist expects a child to be experiencing something commonly plaguing war veterans, especially at such a young age. It's not the first thing to come to mind and children being violently attacked isn't normally the conclusion you jump to when facing a kid that's fidgety. Also, as stated in this article, mental health professionals just don't have time to learn a child's whole backstory.
Stiles' misdiagnosis is just the tip of the iceberg, though. Because of this, he is misprescribed Adderall.
As you may have noticed in the previous scene, Stiles is hyperactive and all over the place. This is actually a very bad sign. According to this article:
We actually see Stiles showing quite a number of the following side effects, mostly the psychiatric ones.
Panic attacks in particular should really catch your attention. I know it caught mine.
In season 3B, the Nogitsune alters a brain scan to make Stiles think he has frontotemporal dementia. The Sheriff and Argent later theorize that, by doing so, the Nogitsune weakened Stiles' mental defenses by destroying his hope. This shows that the weaker Stiles' mind was, the easier it was for the Nogitsune to take control. The poor mental state years of Adderall abuse had left Stiles in may have been the reason why the Nogitsune had chosen him as a host.
The irony of it all is that the Nogitsune said that it could save Stiles if he let it in. Surprisingly, it probably did. When the Nogitsune was controlling Stiles, it would make sense that a 1,000 year old chaos spirit wouldn't bother to take Stiles' Adderall every day. Not only that, we also see Stiles go without Adderall during his whole stay at Eichen House and when the Nogitsune took over the second time. From season 3B onward, Stiles' hyperactivity is way down and (correct me if I'm wrong on this) Stiles isn't seen having another panic attack after that. During the entirety of the Nogitsune arc, Stiles was too preoccupied fighting for his life to remember to take his pill and it seems he just never bothered to pick it up again, thus ACTUALLY saving his own life.
Revisiting this post now that its heyday has long passed because seeing it again reminded me of the things that didn't make the cut, which I will briefly go over:
One symptom of Adderall abuse I found was fainting spells
The reason why this is important:
When Stiles needed to cut off Derek's arm, Derek asked if he fainted at the sight of blood, to which Stiles said no (but he might at the sight of a chopped off arm). When Scott gets a tattoo, Stiles faints, but later that same episode, he has no problem holding down Scott as Derek sears his flesh with a blowtorch to get him a tattoo (in fact, he stares right at it).
We also see, when Stiles is looking into the deadpool murders, he has gruesome crime scene pictures strewn all over his desk (to which Finstock calls disturbing).
In an episode where Melissa needs to inject Lydia, Stiles predicts that he might faint at the sight of a needle being used, but then Liam faints while Stiles is still left standing.
This proves that Stiles doesn't actually have a problem with the two potential triggers of fainting he (as well as the audience) originally thought: gore and needles. However, the two times he does faint (at the tattoo parlor and right after they kill the Nogitsune) do go hand in hand with the idea of the Adderall abuse steadily peaking around the time the Nogitsune preyed on Stiles' deteriorating mind.
Why it was cut from the original post: I tried diligently to find the article again for screenshots but couldn't find it (because I had found the article 4+ years prior to the original post and it was now buried under mountains of data), so I left it out because I felt like no one would believe me without evidence. Since then, I have however found it again:
Another symptom of Adderall abuse is shortness of breath
The reason why this is important:
In season 2, Stiles treads water for two whole hours while holding up 200+ pounds of Derek's deadweight. In season 1, Stiles manages to outrun an Alpha werewolf chasing him down the halls. He also plays an entire game of lacrosse and scores the winning goal later in the season. However, much later in the series, Stiles is heavily winded after a short training sprint. His stamina has severely declined over the seasons despite, arguably, becoming more active in terms of dealing with baddies and running for his life and lacrosse training.
Why it was cut from the original post: the 'being out of breath' scene takes place after 3B, indicating that he's not getting better (and is in fact getting worse) and might still unknowingly be abusing Adderall into an early grave, unlike the positive outcome I posted originally. The thought made me sad and I didn't want to end on a downer (although we don't see him having anymore breathing issues after a particular point, and I did write a mini-fic explaining it that I might post later, but nothing tangible).
Bonus: PTSD Symptoms that differentiate from ADHD
Recently found this while researching this topic again and the startle response made me remember how easily startled Stiles is all the time. And the avoidance of thoughts/memories/feelings reminds me of when Stiles once said he was a big fan of ignoring a problem until it went away.
Having persistent negative beliefs and a persistent negative emotional state could easily be seen as hyperfixation until you think about how Stiles only really hyperfixates when he thinks something will go wrong and he's waiting for the other shoe to drop.
And having exaggerated negative beliefs explains why sometimes he can take things too far when upset/stressed (like when he got Scott beat up after the sheriff was hurt at the PT meeting, or when he threw Scott to the ground when the sheriff was in the hospital, or when he asked why Isaac was not over his abuse yet, or saying they should let Derek die). It's because a singular event (Scott ignored his messages about the Alpha, Derek's pack wanted to kill the kanima/Lydia) gets overblown (i.e. it's always Scott's fault his dad gets hurt, Derek's pack will always have ulterior elmotives).
I am still on board the AU AU where Geralt gets to actually hold a newborn Milek and he cries
[MASTERPOST] awww, oh my, that would be so good!! Geralt absolutely would, and he would be so supportive of Jaskier too!
It's so sad that it doesn't go like that...
listen I have so many feelings about Jaskier giving birth all by himself in this 'verse