A sort of pro "fanon stalker" Tim argument -
It's one of those things people like to say is purely fanon- Tim sneaking out of boarding school/home at night to follow Robin and Batman around, taking photos.
The argument being that #1- we only see Tim do it the night that he takes photos of Bruce to show Dick, and #2- "his photos are all newspaper clippings".
Firstly, Tim had to know how to follow him before that night. Tim had to know where he would be, to at least some degree. Gotham is three large islands. Drake Manor AND Tim's boarding school are not in Gotham Proper.
There certainly are mostly newspaper clippings. HOWEVER, we can clearly see that there are actual photographs laying in the mix on the table in the album. Tim is also either at home, or in his dorm on this page. We don't get to know which. We don't know if at his dorms he has a private room or has a roommate. My guess is either private room or at home.
BUT, the photos in frames on the dresser, as well as the Flying Grayson photo op pic in his hand are in HIS dwelling space. He's not yet at Dick's apartment.
He has a photograph of older Dickbin with Batman on the left, and Jaybin with Batman on the right. They are a standard 8x10, which points to them be developed photographs rather than newspaper clippings.
Later Tim DOES break into Dick's apartment, after spooking Kori at her apartment (both of which he knows the locations of), and he does rummage through Dick's things trying to figure out where he's gone. However, the circus photograph shown is either him mentally picturing it from earlier, or Dick's copy (the prior more likely than the later). I think that's where people have gotten mixed up, thinking the dresser photos were in Dick's apartment.
- We may only have one instance of Tim's following Batman on-page, but his ability to follow him/find him/keep tabs on him at all point toward it not being the first time.
- The photographs on the dresser and in the photo album point towards him having taken those photos. It was 1989, he would have had to have developed those photos himself, it's unlikely he could have gotten them otherwise.
- Jack and Janet Drake went on archeology digs. There's a decent chance that they had this equipment in their house. Including the camera Tim is seen using. It's not like he would have had to purchase the equipment himself when there's a valid reason for it to exist already.
- The photographs and newspaper clippings showing both Robins points towards an extended amount of time having obsessed over Dick, Bruce, and Jason as well as having gone out taking photos of them. We know he found out when he was 9, and we can see it wasn't just a passive hobby. The amount of time passing gets wonky, but Tim's thirteen. Dick is 8 years older than him, and stopped being Robin at eighteen, and Jason was in the Robin suit 18 months later. So it's been 3, almost 4 years since Dick was Robin.
- He knows how much Batman has changed. Enough that he concocted this plan of his. Which means he's been watching. Regarding the newspapers, he says "even THEY have noticed him acting different". Meaning it wasn't the newspapers that told Tim to begin with, he's noted that they realized "too".
I of course don't think Tim did this nightly or anything like that as fandom likes to imply. He couldn't possibly be missing from his dorm or home that often without someone noticing and him getting caught. But I think it was enough to get a decent amount of photos over the years, and that he did enough foot work and research via news/police scanner/in person lurking that he was able to determine some degree of patrol patterns.
He wasn't exactly normal by any means when he was introduced. Something that Dick, Alfred, and Bruce all realized quite quickly. He was obsessed. Calculating. He made himself into precisely what Bruce needed, even at his own expense. He frequently hallucinates in the beginning. Talks at- and even talks to Jason's memorial case, like he's talking to a religious shrine.
Fanon always comes from somewhere. It just very often gets blown very out of proportion.
My point of all this is, I'm rather sure these things all happened to some degree, we just won't even know to what extent (especially with present day canon now in play) and that you can't just say it's all fanon and never happened, because there are things that say otherwise.
Basically, we're probably looking at the mid ground.
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