Jared Kleinman Headcanons for my RP blog
He was taken to a psychologist at age 9 and was diagnosed with ADHD, autism and dyslexia (his parents still refuse to believe there's anything "wrong" with their kid)
His special interest has always been computers and coding but he refuses to properly research them cause he doesn't want the label "nerd" or "geek"
He has a crush on Evan. He switches between denying it and being like "I would definitely say yes if he (Evan) asked me out"
He is transgender (ftm) but isn't that open about it as he is scared of transphobia
He usually posts on his phone so that autocorrect can help him when it comes to misspellings (autocorrect is like his best friend lol)
He was considered a "gifted" kid but had a burnout at some point before high school started (he still does well in his I.T. classes though)
He didn't actually do that well in English based subjects (y'know. Cause dyslexia) but his maths teachers would always praise him
Him and Connor used to have physical fights in elementary and no matter how hard teachers tried to get them to get along, it didn't work
They were still like silent rivals in middle school
In high school was when Jared and Connor started getting into verbal fights
Jared listens to a lot of trans artists (I might project my music taste onto him lol) Think Sushi Soucy, Cavetown, possibly Elio Mei, Ewy
He would totally reclaim slurs
He has a couple mental health issues himself (namely suicidal thoughts. He occasionally self harms too but he's very secretive about it and will get defensive when the subject comes up in any way)
He was largely unbothered by Connor's death at least on the outside. Really he was sorta surprised. He never thought he'd see one of his classmates kill themselves
Whenever asked about his celebrity crush, he would reply with "Miley Cyrus" or "I don't know. The girl who played Hannah Montana" (which is the same thing btw) (it was actually Freddie Mercury lol) (I don't know why it was Freddie Mercury) (it was kinda a random pick on my part tbh)
He has a list of comparisons between him and Richie Tozier from It (this is based on my gf who has a list comparing her and Richie) (haiiii @kayleesapphire !!!)
He pointed out to Evan that his cast made him look like Eddie (from It lol) and Evan was so confused
Jared: hey. Your cast makes you look like Eddie
Jared: the kid from It? You never watched It? (Or read It idk)
Evan: no? I don't like horror
Maybe I should stop with the It stuff lol
He likes Glitch (and other indie studios) but never mentions it
His favourite movie is Heathers (1989) he just doesn't tell anyone that
He tells people that his favourite movie is the original Spider-Man
Whenever someone finds out he likes Evan he always gets super defensive and denies it a million times over
The first Kleinman family gathering after Jared came out as trans to his parents + Joe was... something
He always seems to get nose bleeds whenever he's stressed
I'll add more whenever I think of them