Youâre so valid. And lucky for you I planned to do exactly nothing on this day so here we go!
Virgil was the first to notice that there was something different about the four of them.
Heâd been researching into mental illness/anxiety stuff on tumblr and stumbled upon some posts in the actuallyautistic hashtag that hit a little too close to home, so he looked into it a little bit more and realised, hey, those posts describe them all really well. He was too anxious to say anything though because he was scared he was wrong or that the others would think he was making stuff up.
Then one day Patton had a meltdownâa very rare occurrence that frightened all of them. Logan and Roman hadnât known it was a meltdown and had mostly just stood there, unsure of what to do. Because of the research heâd been doing though, Virgil knew what to do in order to make things okay a little bit quicker than normal.
At that point, Virgil just couldnât keep it to himself anymore. Plus, he was getting really tired of having to act more neurotypical than he was.
Logan agreed almost as soon as Virgil mentioned his suspicions. He felt like heâd been nearing the point of realising it himself, he just hadnât got there yet, though Logan also quietly worried that he couldnât be autistic because he was smart and generally articulate. Virgil mostly dispersed those fears by mentioning all the autistic traits he did haveâsomething Virge had been paying a lot more attention to since he realised.
Patton was initially quite confused. He didnât really know anything about autism, but he was clearly interested in finding out.
Once theyâd explained to him the general premise of autism and, more specifically, which of his behaviours seemed to be as a result of it he was ecstatic. It was very much a moment of, âthereâs a reason I want to do these things?? Iâm allowed to do them???â which resulted in Patton doing a little jumpy, stimmy dance thing around the room for a second.
Roman was the only one who refused to accept it at first. He was Creativity! He wasnât supposed to be limited like that by sensory issues or speech difficulties, thatâs ridiculous!
He didnât deny that the others were autistic, because that would be cruel, but he was very much of the mindset that they were like that and he was different. As a result, he pushed himself far past his limits to prove to the others he was capable until eventually, he ended up experiencing autistic burnout.
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