#adhd dean

[angelsdean]

#adhd boy bored and stimming by shaving his arm hair to test the sharpness of his blade

[cheerfulripley]

This is something storm chaser Cas would find after they deal with a haboob in Arizona. He threatens Dean with wearing these things if he does anything especially moronic. Dean pokes it, shudders, and pronounces them to be 'sand-HELLS'

[shallowseeker]

sorry if this is random/weird, but i was wondering if you had any particular neurodivergent headcanons for tfw/supernatural in general. or, alternatively, just any headcanons near and dear to your heart

I don't want to disappoint you, but I'm very, very bad at speculating any sort of coherent social diagnoses online, even for fictional characters! So I'll happily pass the ball to my more knowledgeable dashfam.

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However, THAT SAID. In stories, I absolutely favor when Sam's "normal one" perception of himself gets blown out of the water, and I especially love it when Sam is the last one to realize how weird he comes off to others. I favor the view that Sam spends so much time psychoanalyzing and pathologizing others that he either becomes blind to his own struggles, or else he misattributes them to other things. I just love the idea that Sam uses the case of the week to try to create a narrative he can "solve" instead of looking at how his neurodivergence creates a barrier to him relating to other people. Note// AU Charlie calls him on this beautifully in 14x06 Optimism. Also// See my preferences for Sam versus the entire town of Lebanon hehehe.) ///

Other things I adore: when Dean gets a bit too excited emulating pop culture, and his over-the-top "tryhard" routine backfires. I am especially tickled when Cas turns out to be the "normal one" in any given social situation. This applies to the draft of Tombstone, where it's more obvious that Cas feels more "plainclothes-natural" and Dean more "cowboy cosplay." And in Rock Never Dies, when Crowley, Sam, and Dean come up empty in their respective investigations, and it's Cas who strikes gold! Athough Cas's plight with human interaction is at first played for awkwardness and laughs in season 12, especially his emulating "humanness," he's actually the one to establish a deeper rapport in his investigation in this ep. Cas gains Tommy's trust, even though Cas is using such a silly codename! This is all sorts of hilarious to me. And Cas accidentally stumbling into doing socialness better than Sam and Dean is always especially funny to me. ///

Anyway, both of the above are delicious to me and I would have loved to see them utilized for funsies more often. Overall, I think Cas and Jack underestimate their own ability to connect and empathize, and Sam overestimates his ability to do so. As for Dean, Dean is very self-aware, but it's adorakable when his efforts are so over-the-top to the point they circle back around to being Weird.

They can all, of course, be off-putting when the mood strikes them, and that tickles me, too.

[angeltiddies]

DEAN STIMMING?????

(because this account no longer exists on twitter and it always takes forever for me to find the fancam, i’ve made the decision to repost here. all credits to the creator on twitter, im sorry ur account doesn’t exist anymore for me to link u 😔👊 if u still exist pls call me out and i will add ur creds or delete ok xoxo angeltiddies)

[t4tstarvingdog]

so we already know that dean has a complicated relationship with memories especially when it comes to wretched situations and even more especially when it comes to cas and like. adhd bad-memories-anyway dean... what i’m trying to say is that during the confession scene he’s sick to his stomach. sick to his stomach and scared to death and his mind going a million miles a second and he’s trying to hear everything cas is saying and he’s trying to get his stupid fucking voice to work to say it back to say anything but he can’t and he’s trying to and nothing’s working–

and he’s trying to get it all. he’s trying to sear this moment into his mind forever (it’s my fault how could i have changed it how do i get him to stay how do i keep him god just let me keep him here let me keep him–)

but afterwards.... cas’ words still ringing in his ears... he starts to forget the details. and he’s trying to remember. he doesn't care that it hurts. that it makes him nauseous and sick and makes it hard to breathe in a way that would normally mean a heart attack or panic attack or some divine force strangling him. he just needs to remember he needs to remember he can feel himself forgetting the details he can feel it slipping away he can feel himself losing cas all over again in the way he can’t even clearly remember cas’ last moments on this earth

he tries to remember until the only thing he can’t forget is that cas died because he loved him

[violenceenthusiast]

dean is so tactile he would’ve loved learning and using ASL :’) gossiping with eileen, using signs as expressive emphasis when telling stories, signing when he’s too overwhelmed to speak, and did i mention gossiping with his new best friend eileen :’)))

[deanwasalwaysbi]

All in all the thing that was most shocking to me this weekend was that Misha and Jensen had never before discussed being diagnosed with ADD as children

[deangloriam]

cas trying to explain executive dysfunction to dean to help him with his adhd and dean’s like my dick works just fine thank you very much