elfloxk

19 He/They ASD/ADHD A place to channel my desire to appear academic while also being obsessed with fanfic

[elfloxk]

Hardback vs Paperback

I want beautiful tomes on my shelves. I want books that feel weighty in my hand as I pour over them. I want the leather and clothbound classics with beautiful intricacies and musty pages speaking of the lives they have lead. I want them to stand the test of time. I want to leave my own newer ones behind for other people to smile at with pride.

I want battered paperbacks that have musings of past owners. I want paperbacks that have their spines cracked and fit perfectly in whatever bag I'm bringing along. I want corners that have been dog-eared and pressed back time and time again as someone has reread them. I want pristine paperbacks that slowly become less pristine as I read them and bring them along on my travels and day to day.

[archaic-stranger]

the forensics & criminology students

forming theories about well-known cold cases

listening to your favorite true crime podcasts

a stack of mystery novels by your bed

searching for patterns and connections that others might have missed

photographs pinned to your bulletin board with notes written in sharpie

thick case files

a fascination with the human potential for good and evil

books on psychology, anatomy, and law stacked on your desk

studying the sources of human behavior

meticulously collecting samples for analysis

laughing at the inaccuracies in crime dramas, but watching them anyway

a delicate touch, lifting fingerprints and fiber samples without disturbing the crime scene

the steady hum of lab machinery

debating various theories on why people act how they do

safety goggles and crisp latex gloves

memorizing the details of famous murder cases

combing through databases and CCTV footage for information that might be useful

analyzing the sociopolitical aspects of crime

a notepad and pen tucked into the pocket of your coat

the high wail of sirens in the distance

learning to perform accurate psychological assessments

rewatching interviews, looking for inconsistencies that might inspire further investigation

a desire to understand people

newspaper clippings, bold headlines in black and white

[thistherapylife]

Holyyyyyy fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[elfloxk]

Oof called out my dude

[broadwaystims]

I don’t know if anyone else has made these, but I made a thing. For sensory overload, meltdowns, or just general mental exhaustion. A simple picture to send in case someone texts you and you cannot handle a conversation at that moment. Free to use, please reblog for others

[elfloxk]

Classic Novels I Have Read:

This will be updated every so often when I finish one, I'll like rank it on a scale of 1-10 stars (⭐). I'll do another post of all the ones I plan to read.

First Book is: POLYANNA!

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐☆☆☆(7/10 stars)

It's a beautiful story and I really should have read it when I first got it 7 years ago, but I can understand why I didn't read it. The spelling, while reflecting accents of the era, would have been incredibly difficult for 10-year-old me to understand and sit through. As it was, 17-year old me had trouble.

So yeah great book, definitely recommend just watch out for the copious amounts of 'jest' and 'ejaculated' as they just fit the time period my dude.

[manomidori]

Autistic Headcanon #2:

It may just be me projecting myself (as I am also autistic), but I think I see some of my own personal autistic traits in Craig (Daniel Radcliffe) from TBS’ “Miracle Workers”.

* I just saw the first episode last night.

I see in Craig the lack of a problem performing repetitive behaviors (melting one snowflake at a time to help someone find their lost keys), the lack of social skills/experience and his rigid adherence to Heaven’s preset rules and procedures.

Granted, this is only after one episode, but if my analysis offends anyone, please let me know via comment or messaging.

[tammiechanouo-blog]

I thought this as well (could be projecting as well)

He had what could be considered a meltdown/shutdown when Eilza said “Who cares? It’s just a missing glove” after already having hours of work be destroyed. Add his work being seen as worthless and it causes him to have what could be seen as a minor meltdown.

In the second episode we also see him struggling to come to terms with the changes that are being made (also present in the first episode) and change is something alot of autistic people can struggle with

[elfloxk]

I headcanon Craig as autistic

[uniqueaspergirl]

Autistic Hogwarts students

Autistic students who are best friends with their pets, owls, cats and frogs.

Autistic students who spend all their free time in the library.

Autistic students who know spells that can muffle the sounds around them. This could be really useful in the great hall and other crowded places.

Autistic students who made a deal with the elves in the kitchen that they get their favourite and sensory safe food and drinks every day.

Autistic students who know secret passages and the least popular stairs in Hogwarts to avoid crowds.

Autistic students who like to wear the school uniform because they always wear the same and they won’t have to decide what sensory friendly clothing they want to wear each morning.

Autistic students who like to communicate with the merpeople by sign language. The merpeople come to the big windows on the far side of the Slytherin common room if they are curious or want to talk.

Autistic students who stim by flying on a broom or play quidditch in the heavy equipment.

Autistic students who buy their stim toys in a magical fidget shop: Potions which smell like everything you want them to. Blankets that adjust their weight to the needs of the owner. Stim toys which change textures and other things like self-rotating glitter jars, endless bubble wrap, moving pictures for visual stimming. Everything you’d ever imagine.

Autistic students who create their own ‘personal space’ inside their wardrobe with an extension charm to relax, recover and be alone.

 Autistic students who use the time-turner to visit their favorite classes, again and again.

Autistic students who are befriended with the ghosts and portraits because they need no physical contact and have hundreds of years of knowledge to share.

Autistic students who have a self-writing quill which makes notes in class.

Autistic students who have a magical bracelet or pin which displays the mood and show if they want to communicate or be left alone.

Autistic students who have a collection of magical stim toys which can fly, hover, change colours or textures or make sounds.

Autistic students who sneak out of their common room at night because they like to wander the empty and quiet halls.

Autistic students who invented a light that only shine for them if they want to read and learn all night without waking everyone.

Autistic students who made howler which can only be heard by the receiver because they are bothered by the sudden noise every time someone received one.

Autistic students who are allowed to visit the greenhouse, potion class, astronomy tower, stables for magical creatures or the quidditch fields if they want to experiment or learn about their special interest.

Autistic students who meet other autistics in the room of requirements to train or analyse social situations, talk about their special interests, stimming together, etc.

Autistic students who have self-organizing and magically expanding shelves.

Autistic students who have an arrangement with the house elves in the kitchen that always food and drinks appear near them when it’s time to eat and they forgot about it.

Autistic students who have blankets which can adjust their weight if they want their blankets to be heavier or lighter.

Autistic students who go nonverbal have magical cards which can display and verbalise their thoughts if they have to say something.

Autistic students who have a special interest in muggle things and interrogate all new muggle-born and half-blood students about it.

Autistic students who ‘lock’ their wands, so they can stim with it without setting of spells.

Autistic students who learn to cast their spells wandless because they don’t like the feeling of holding a wand or like to flap their hands.

Autistic students who are allowed to miss class if they (are about to ) have a meltdown, shutdown or a sensory overload.

Autistic students who have enchanted chairs and tables in every classroom which can adjust the brightness of the light, the speech volume of the teacher and other students and the room temperature to make the perfect environment for each student.

 Autistic students who have a magical compass which shows them the fastest way to their common room or safe place from every location in Hogwarts if they are going to have a meltdown, shutdown or sensory overload.

Autistic students who stay over Christmas in Hogwarts because it’s quieter and less stressful there than at their home.

Autistic students who are visited by their families and friends on visiting day at Hogwarts once a month. On every train station and in Kings Cross on platform 9 ¾  a wizard is positioned who cast a temporary spell on the visitors and lead them through the barrier. They will arrive at Hogsmeade where the students can meet them. In special cases, they can stay in Hogsmeade for a few days. After that, the Hogwarts Express will bring them back to the muggle world.

Autistic students who manipulate stinkbombs from Zonko’s Joke Shop or Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes that they smell like their favourite stimmy smell.

Autistic students who have a huge collection of chocolate frog cards or rare magical plants.

Autistic students who always have a sneakoscope on them, which make an alarming sound when it’s in range of an untrustworthy person, like a poltergeist or bullies. 

Autistic students who like to spend their time in the shrieking shack, when everything is too much and they need alone-time. It’s a lonely place because no others students dare to go there.To get there, they use the secret passage under the whomping willow.

Autistic students who like to spend their time at the boathouse because it’s quieter there than on the lakeshore.

Autistic students who row out onto the great lake to play with the merpeople and the giant squid and feed the squid toast from breakfast.

Autistic students who can’t travel in the crowded and noisy Hogwarts Express. Instead, they’re allowed to use brooms, portkeys, floo powder, apparition spells or flying cars or carpets.

Autistic students who can’t live in the common room could rent a room in Hogsmeade or stay home. They have to travel every day to Hogwarts and back home.

Autistic students who are allowed to travel with floo powder through the fireplaces from one classroom the next to avoid the crowds in the hallways.

Autistic students who like to flap and rock while reading about their special interests use flying books or let them fly.

Autistic students who like rules, order and organisation  want to be praefect of their house.

Autistic students who like the sound of the water in the Slytherin dungeon or the howling wind in the Gryffindor/Ravenclaw tower.

Autistic students who have a bad sense of orientation and take a copy of the marauders’s map from the Hogwarts merch shop with them to find the way to their classrooms.

Autistic students who visite besides muggle studies the social norm class for muggle and wizard worlds, in which muggle-born, half-bloods and pure-bloods learn about the social life and the daily life with or without magic in the other world.

Autistic students who have problems with personal hygiene. Instead of teeth brushing they can chew on a bubble gum made out of the juice of a rare magical plant. And instead of showering they can use potions or charms to stay clean.

 Autistic students who got stimming attachments from Olivander’s. They can modify their wands with chewing bits or little attached fidget toys or transparent parts with shiny liquid in it, like a glitter jar.

Autistic students who have magical contact lenses which can adjust the light level of every environment after the users needs.

Autistic students who teach themselves Parseltongue because they see it as a new challenge and a special way to make friends with animals

Send me your Ideas!

to be continued

[elfloxk]

AUSTISTIC HOGWARTS STUDENTS

[levil0vesyou]

Fictional character: *displays a single vaguely autistic symptom*

My self-projecting ass: They’re autistic.

[elfloxk]

Oh look it's me with Craig from season one of Miracle Worker's

[deinomonozu]

i love autistic headcanons! they make me want to squeal and flap and rock so hard!!!

[samcahntent]

Cursed Creature here

[elfloxk]

Clueless Ghost here

[oaktree-forest-mlm]

hey if you’re a trans or nb boy reading this, you look very handsome today have a good day you funky little man

[tornadofag-moved-deactivated201]

hey if you’re a trans or nb gal reading this, you look very beautiful today have a good day you funky little lady

[oaktree-forest-mlm]

hey if you’re an unaligned or genderfluid or anything that doesn’t fit the previous reblogs person reading this you look stunning today have a good day you funky little human being

[too-many-problems-to-list]

Might have these out of order but just a good thread to share.

[ms-prue-deactivated20221221]

[link to the original thread on twitter for screenreaders]

on one hand this thread makes me want to cry a lot and on the other I’m like, well, my brain is a complex system and now I have a sort of entry point to figure out how it works, so that’s good

[autistic--rory-blog]

protect autistic kids

protect autistic teens

protect autistic adults

[planet-mothlad-deactivated20220]

My Autistic Character Headcanons

Newt Scamander (Fantastic Beasts & Where to find them)

Poor Eye Contact

Seemingly uncomfortable with touching or physical contact

Special Interests in Fantastic Beasts

Has difficulty saying what he means

Relates to animals more than people, a mood

Extremely literal

Compliments a girl on her eyes looking like those of a salamander

Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)

Has trouble concentrating

Known to be strange by other students

Prefers being barefoot, possibly out of sensory reasons

Collects random things

Stares into space and gets lost in her thoughts

The Doctor (Doctor Who)

Large fields of Special Interests

Info-Dumps like 90% of the time

Has trouble figuring out emotions sometimes

Certain Doctors have barely any volume control

Certain Doctors are clearly hyper-empathetic

Also an ADHD Icon too

Peridot (Steven Universe)

Echolalia for the word “Clods”

Doesn’t get Amethyst’s jokes

Has trouble communicating

Very very literal and logical

Odd sense of humor

Gets upset by unpredictability

Alien Plush and IPad as comfort items

Meltdowns?

Groot (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Mostly Nonverbal, and only says one specific phrase

Seemingly takes awhile to process information

Struggles with following directions

Hates wearing clothes (when the Ravagers put him in that tiny little outfit)

Makes ‘strange’ noises, groans and is shown to pace

Possibly stims by dancing

Doesn’t really bother to follow social rules

Dipper (Gravity Falls)

Overthinks everything

Chews on his shirt to stim

Tries to plan everything out

Huge trouble with social interaction

Special Interest in the Paranormal

Chews on pens to stim

Mabel (Gravity Falls)

No volume control whatsoever

Pulls her sweater over her head and rocks back and forth when overwhelmed

Hyper empathetic

Loves shiny things and stickers, almost like visual stimming

Only wears sweaters, possibly for sensory reasons

Special interests in boy bands, arts and crafts

Incredibly trusting of others

Pearl (Steven Universe)

Struggles with communication, especially towards humans

Difficulty processing emotions

Infodumps constantly

Very strong emotions

Hyperfocus and need to follow rules

Has meltdowns when she’s confronted by difficult topics (Rose, Sardonyx, etc…)

Marina (Splatoon)

This Gif looks a lot like her stimming

Often misses social cues from Pearl

Misunderstands situations and intentions

When insulted, she often is totally unaware that she’s supposed to take offense

Gets really excited about bikes and moving stages

Wears headphones all the time

Hates the texture of mayonnaise:

Lilo (Lilo & Stitch)

Loud meltdowns

Comfort objects such as Scrump the doll

Specific and unusual routines

Understands other creatures better than humans

Very good imagination

Extremely picky eater

Listens to Elvis to stim

Very socially awkward

Often bullied

Very strong moral code

Star Butterfly (Star vs the Forces of Evil)

Very confused by Human stuff

Doesn’t understand Marco’s sarcasm

Chews on her wand to stim

Has a hard time following rules

Doesn’t understand metaphors

Has meltdowns when fighting Toffee and in other very upsetting situations

Prefers bright colors

Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)

Constantly Infodumps

Special Interest in Books and Magic

Struggles with social interactions

Difficulty understanding emotions at times

Struggles with unpredictability

Has a hard time breaking rules

There’s descriptions of what sounds like her stimming in the book, even flapping her hands in the Half-Blood Prince

Has difficulty seeing from others perspectives

Bruce Banner (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Special Interests in Physics and Science

Hyper Empathetic

Generally prefers to be alone

Difficulty processing and controlling his emotions at times

Prefers to be partially nonverbal

Very literal

Clearly gets overstimulated and has a meltdown as the Hulk in Thor;Ragnarok after seeing Natasha’s video

Very socially awkward

Hyperfocus

Doesn’t always get Tony’s jokes and references

Wall-E (Wall-E)

Nonverbal

Makes ‘strange’ noises

Collects comfort objects

Confused by certain emotions

Communicates more through action than words

Difficulty with communications, even with other Robots

Loves watching ‘Hello Dolly’ over and over again

Rubik’s Cube for stimming?

[swiftlyrem]

the greek gods but dark academia

zeus

natural leader, passive aggresive but with quotes and riddles, drinks way too much coffee, loves a good old stormy weather, the sound of thunder calms him, impulsive, good at sports

poseidon

loves water, swims in the cold sea, drinks cocktails at the beach, while reading a book, loves odyssey and other books about the ancient greek times, spontaneous, is either really calm or really happy/angry. wants to study oceanography in uni

hades

sarcastic, reads philosophy books about the afterlife, fascinated by the concept of life after death, wears extra dark colours, is a closed introverted person though not afraid to speak their mind, doesn’t enjoy the company of most living creatures, tolerates his rottweiler and his best friend (complete opposites) only

aphrodite

romantic, gorgeous, confident, wears lighter colours with dark accents and lots of gold jewellery, listens to old romantic jazz and beautiful classical pieces,  reads jane austen way too much, admires rebecca from vanity fair, loves rainy days, speaks french and wants to learn latin

hera

a family person, close to their loved ones, can be arrogant, good at economics and math, listens to classical music and speaks ancient greek, quite vain and sometimes blunt, impeccable style, wears makeup a bit more than the usual da person, nice to her partner, can be rude to her family, probably bi but doesn’t say anything about it

athena

fascinatingly smart, good at every subject though doesn’t enjoy pe, listens to sophisticated classy jazz from the 20s, lights candles and studies history and math for fun, wants to be an architect, ambitious, only shows people what she wants them to see, keeps her feelings hidden, has a guy best friend, has strong opinions on books

demeter

loves plants and takes good care of them, gives of cottagecore vibes at first but her soul is dark academia, contrary to popular belief reads either poetry or mystery, listens to piano pieces and indie music sometimes, wakes up before dawn to read on candlelight, vegan

artemis

tolerates women and women only, probably gay, loves animals, studies at 3 a.m., takes care of animals and fosters animals in need for a home, has two dogs, one cat and birds, good at debates, fights for women’s rights, has a surprising amount of dress pants, doesn’t wear skirts ot dresses

ares

loses himself when angry, revengeful, reads old books about war, knows a lot about ww1 and ww2, quotes mark ellis, speaks latin and greek but mostly knows the words related to war, really good at history, listens to cage the elephant or mozart

apollo

theatre kid, a great singer, plays the piano, guitar, violin and ukulele, may be a ballet dancer or a ballroom dancer, wants to experience an 18th century ball, bi, drinks a surprising amount of coffee, listens to all kinds of music but jazz mostly, plays hard pieces on the piano, writes songs and poetry

hephaestus

good at building things, witty, doesn’t enjoy the company of any living creature, good with any type of machine or technology, reads books from the ancient times because he doesn’t relate to people of his time, builds stuff at 2 a.m.

hermes

travels a lot, extroverted, good at learning languages, reads foreign literature, knows both ancient greek and modern greek, wants to learn chinese, knows random facts about many countries, goes to lots of museums, listens to jazz while on the plane (which is often), owns a lot of blazers

dionysus

loves wine and knows how to make it, knows the answers to random trivia questions and for some reason is really caught up on pop culture even though he doesn’t use his phone, wears burgundy turtlenecks and rings, listens to classical music while drinking wine and reading shakespeare on his balcony

[garden-ofjoy]

it’s hard to believe we have to explain why someone deserves basic human rights... it’s a pretty self-explanatory term??

***reposted from VSCO credit unknown

[introvert-unicorn-deactivated20]

What you can say instead of the word beautiful:

lovely, 

charming, 

delightful, 

appealing, 

engaging, 

winsome

ravishing, 

gorgeous, 

heavenly, 

stunning, 

arresting, 

glamorous,

 irresistible, 

bewitching, 

beguiling

graceful, 

elegant,

 exquisite, 

aesthetic, 

artistic, 

decorative, 

magnificent