#adhd dick grayson

[morgangalaxy43]

Lego Bruce and Dick were so fun and ADHD son/autistic dad coded

[thegreatflyinggrayson]

What's "rejection sensitive dysphoria???

Im glad you asked actually. Its this thing a lot of people with adhd and stuff get a lot of the time. It basically means that little things like basic rejections affect your mood a lot more!

The tiniest criticism can feel like someone just told you that your life is worthless and they hope your dog dies. 😕

It can lead to a lot of bullying esp in young kids. Its part of why a lot of adhd people put so much pressure on themselves.

[thegreatflyinggrayson]

What is it like to have ADHD ?

Usually alright, but I get so absorbed in things that I tend to lose track of time. Also, I have really bad rejection sensitive dysphoria.

[chaoticgremlinbrainspace]

my brain got activated and well Dick Grayson time hoes

hear me out, adhd Dick Grayson would've probably fucking hated reading as a kid especially for school because that requires a lot of focus and remembering and huge blocks of text which would be horrible to read because he would get stuck on a sentence reading it over and over or accidentally skipping around the page and having to start over. along with English not being his first language, it would probably make the experience even worse because its also frustrating  as hell trying to translate while struggling to even read a paragraph while everyone else seems to breeze on by. and like maybe this dislike of reading long and large documents continues on, maybe part of the reason he dropped out was it was too much too fast, maybe he learns to like fun reading after he leaves school and can read at his own pace, maybe he only likes reading academic texts, maybe he has a set type of novel he likes to read. I feel like either that or maybe one day reading clicks for him and he loves it until he doesn't. or maybe hes more of a math kid, maybe he likes the way problems have solutions, maybe it just clicks. maybe he hyper fixates on what hes good at school wise, maybe he’s forced himself to read faster for vigilante stuff. maybe he doesn't read for pleasure because the feelings of frustration and anxiety from school taint books and long readings. maybe he uses a text to speech app for long texts, maybe he cant type out thoughts, maybe he uses voice to text. maybe he can type, maybe he just cant get what he really wants to say in words, maybe he feels so much and so deep about things he can’t get them out of his throat and all the things he wants to say stagnate, maybe he says too much maybe he says what he meant to hold onto to, maybe he just wants to explode.

[chaoticgremlinbrainspace]

local man’s insane ramblings about a fictional man(he is once again going wild)

god ive got undiagnosed adult adhd Dick Grayson on my mind again like, auhghughug I just really like it ad also tee hee projection. <3. like I just think it would be silly goofy for when he leaves Gotham and lives in Blüdhaven, he just has the “oh man I should get tested shouldn't I?” moment because of either a friend, or something else lol. and just having the “damn I looking back and shit its fitting man, oh fuck” because his ass would look into it. and shit would be a bit too relatable. I dunno if he would go for medication, but like hear me out. I am angsty and this is slightly angsty, pre murder machine(idk what this story was actually called im horrid at names) he can take pills just fine post murder machine and probably spyral too lol, pills are a lot harder to swallow if not just out right rejected, so he would have to go cold turkey with the medication. and like medication doesn't work for everyone, but it does help a lot of people, and currently as a person who is taking Medication It helps me, being unable to take it would suck ass. so of course im throwing that evil at dick lol. but like sorry im just insane about it, Dick Grayson with adult adhd is so funky to me, and I just think its fun to throw personal experiences onto charaters and twist the experiences to fit the charaters more(I am not always successful I will admit </3) but man, he makes me want to write lil short stories about him. THAT AND GENDER CRISIS DICK LMAO, I THINK I JUST LIKE GIVING HIM OH SHIT MOMENTS BSHDKFHSB. Identity is something thats ever changing in big and small ways, and baby I want to commit property damage. BUT LIKE OK, I JUST THINKING HE WOULD BE NEAT, HAVING THE GENDER STRUGGLE. IDK HOW OR WHAT I JUST THINK ITS NEAT I WOULD NEED TO KNOW MORE TO REALLY FIGURE THAT OUT. HE MAKES ME WANT TO RUN INTO DRYWALL. OK BUT ANYWAY, NIGHTWING IS NEAT AND I WANT TO THROW HIM AT THE WALL AT HIGH SPEED, ITS LIKE CUTENESS AGGRESSION BUT I NEED TO KILL HIM WITH MY TEETH IN AN affectionate WAY. also that reminds weird kid dick is very silly goofy to. like as a treat. because like as a former weird kid, current weird adult, I like making my favorites lil freaks. like doing dumb shit, and having garbage people skills and using humor to get people to like you? im throwing this at dick. like along with practicing facial expressions in the mirror to get them just right. LIKE ITS MORE PROJECTION BUT I AM HAVING FUN. real quick note he still has adhd isfnjngjf and I think with out medication his thoughts are a lot more jumbled and like smashed together, along with the funny epic brain fog that happens sometimes, especially if hes gone a while with out eating/sleeping. and like medicated its still somewhat jumbled but its easier now,(because the medication isn't fixing anything its just leveling the mental playing field making it easier to do things but its not like a cure all) to sort thoughts out. and im killing biting his grades lol. (more projection baybee) because grades dont reflect a lot of peoples intelligence(different types, and school learning doesn't account for all different types of learning really also tests suck lol) so im exploding a grade and making him struggle in a class, probably just one he genuinely finds boring as hell and cant focus in lol like he can do it it just sucks ass and feels like pulling teeth. ALSO, object permanence is 0 now im exploding him in a toaster oven. he loses shit like keys, his phone, wallet, misplaces his mask occasionally, shit like that, and since hes a paranoid vigilante with a secret identity he has to triple check everything is there all the time. Especially if he cant remember if he really did put something somewhere. so he has a habit of obsessively checking pockets and bags for items. 

[chaoticgremlinbrainspace]

I FORGOT TO ADD A TITLE OOPS BUT HUH basically THIS IS JUST ME BEING INSANE ABOUT DICK GRAYSON WITH ADHD AND I REALLY CHANNELED SOME SHIT WITH THIS ONE BESTIES

as the 3 people who read my insane Dick Grayson centered ramblings know Dick Grayson with adhd is a head canon I really like, especially as a person who has it and researched it further. now im wondering what kinda things would he hyperfixate on? what genre of topic wouldn't leave his mind? like fun hyperfixations not like the im doing a thing and I got sucked into it for 6 hours straight and its a work thing type of hyperfixation. LARGE BLOCK OF TEXT HERE: would he have a fixation on birds? just know a bunch of bird facts? or would it be more acrobat based? hell would he get one on the circus? or would it be more focused on the media? does he find an underground singer he becomes unwell about? buying posters and merchandise for a comic he really likes? or would they be more scientifically inclined? would he know a bunch of random “useless” human body facts? would he have exactly one book series he rereads over and over? would he be a huge math nerd and spend hours doing it? would he accidentally spiral into doing makeup and fashion? would he fixate on hair tutorials? would fixate on learning a random skill or trade like sewing? hell he could hop through any of these. his room would be full of things from previous and current fixations, the shelves covered in knickknacks, maybe he learned how to do ceramics and has his first ever shitty bowl on a table. maybe hes done none of that, maybe he just day dreams about it, maybe hes only got time for one or two hobbies and he can never get himself to do it, maybe hes always running late to events and shit maybe hes always early. maybe he wants to go and do things outside of his regular work/life routine but ends up stuck on the couch for hours, internally trying to move. maybe he gets indecisive and can do anything at all stuck at making the choice, maybe he second guesses himself. maybe he has ideas and things he could do, but he cant ever just do them and he feels horrible. maybe he feels like hes lazy after all other people dont have this problem, other people just seem to do things. maybe he doesn't share any of his likes and hobbies because hes terrified of the idea that someone would make fun of him, maybe someone has and now he doesn't share anything with them, maybe the idea of someone making fun of or just not getting it makes his chest hurt like hes being stabbed, maybe he longs to just be able to share with people, maybe he has to restrain himself from correcting people on a fact, maybe he doesn't always succeed, maybe he cringes and laughs it off as him getting too excited, maybe privately hes berating himself. maybe when he does have someone to just info dump at he lights up, and he goes and goes and goes, maybe he gets animated sweeping hand movements, making faces and noises to highlight a point, maybe after a while he’ll apologize for talking for so long, maybe he’ll get such a rush of just pure happy emotions afterwards that it feels like too much to contain in his body, maybe hes embarrassed of stimming in front of other people, maybe he only does it at home by himself, maybe he doesn't even know what hes doing hes just been told off in the past, maybe when hes happy or gets a burst of random energy he feels like crooning, or making different animal like noises, maybe hes done it before in front of other people by accident, maybe hes gotten yelled at for talking too much, maybe he has too wait until he knows people better before he can start being weird, maybe he masks around people, maybe he uses humor as a shield, maybe hes never been diagnosed, maybe he just thought everyone was like this, maybe he struggled with a school topic more than his peers, maybe he was too smart and if he just applied himself he would get it, he didn't need help, maybe he spent hours pouring over a homework, frustration building into a full on breakdown, why cant he just get it like other kids do? maybe his emotions just get to be too much, he feels like an overfilled cup, maybe he lashes out, and when that doesn't work when things get worse he internalizes, maybe he has to check and double check things are there, maybe he loses small things like his keys, maybe he’s lost his wallet multiple times, maybe he spends days without his phone because it was under a book, maybe sometimes he just cant and everything is too much, maybe he feels like if hes not doing anything than hes failing everyone, maybe some days it feels like everyone hates him, maybe on those days he feels like snapping breaking apart and just screaming, maybe some days some minor inconvenience makes him snap ripping into whoever is near him, maybe he spends hours stewing in self hatred and guilt until he works up the nerve to apologize, maybe he works on cases/his day job to avoid things, maybe he’s shit at deadlines and does everything towards the end, maybe he finds ways to just sneak in his current fixation into the conversation, maybe he feels bone dead tired but his mind is too busy to sleep, maybe he suffers from horrible nightmares and just sits in the tub with the lights on.   BLOCK OF TEXT ENDS HERE anyway uh I think hes silly goofy. like ive found my favorite brand of adhd I like to give Dick Grayson because there are 3 main types of adhd that people fall under do note that everyones symptoms present differently and lots of people experience a wide variety of symptoms in a variety of ways, there is the inattentive type which has a tendency to fly under the diagnostic radar, hyperactive which is what people usually think of when it comes to adhd, and the combined type which is like a remix of both. I personally tend to give dick hyperactive, mostly due to most likely having this type myself lol. that and I feel like he would have undiagnosed adult adhd. I say this because I know bruce is rich but when he first got dick he was like 20 or smth and he probably has no fucking clue at what's considered normal child vs thats a mental disorder. Partly because he’s not exactly a “normal” guy himself and the fact that despite it all they personally just think dick is like that and that he needs to apply himself more or smth. adhd is somewhat new in the sense its not just hyperactive white boys getting diagnosed so information around it is heavily skewed one way die to a lack of long term data collected from a variety of groups(like autism). like bruce and Alfred dont know what they dont know, and they have no fucking clue dick has adhd. and dont worlds greatest detective me hes still just a guy, and people make mistakes or refuse to believe things. like I feel like im explaining this wrong. so basically bruce has a warped sense of what is considered normal in children due to his backstory tm and the way he grew up, and dick is a young child riddled with adhd and ptsd from his parents dying in front of him. and dick has just always been the way he has been so he only knows something is “wrong” with him when he struggles to fit into school. bruce being a sudden first time parent thing to this kid, only really has Alfred as back up and no offense Alfred you are old. so shit like adhd isn't even really considered/known about. AND SO basically what im getting at here is dick had a hard time he has no idea why he does shit and if other people do it, so he just spends a lot of time compensating for things and feeling like “damn why cant I do that? it seems super easy for other people? am I just broken in some way?” and like bruce and Alfred tried again they didn't know what they didn't know. dick would probably eventually have something/someone that makes him realize “oh shit I have have adhd? what?” and then boom he has an explanation for why he is the way he is. its messy and I cant quite get it out with the right words but yeah thats why I tend to give dick undiagnosed adult adhd. my adhd was diagnosed as a kid, but like it wasn't really treated in any meaningful way it was more like “cool fact about me tee hee” so I try to pull from that a bit.

[chaoticgremlinbrainspace]

wow me thinking about dick Greyson? more likely than you think!

Disclaimer I am just a guy on the internet having a self indulgence time for fun, my grasp on canon vs Fanon is shakier than when I tried rope climbing in P.E also I am not a trained medical professional all things related to adhd I talk about come from Personal Experience or further research FOOD AND TEXTURE: fun fact, people with adhd can hyper fixate on foods, found that out from my mom’s doctor. so I think dick definitely has foods that he fixates on and will prefer to eat over other foods. also he would have foods he just can't fucking eat because of taste or texture, like for example when I was younger I refused to eat fried eggs but I would eat boiled eggs, even better example jellies and puddings are things I can eat bc it activates my gag reflex and I hate the way they feel, physically can't swallow them without feeling sick. so ya know ya boy is gonna project that onto the dickster lol. I think he would probably hyperfixate on foods that fall into a similar category of each other I know I do lol. my food hyperfication has been crushed up instant ramen. and has been for a while but specially a certain kind. think dick would hyperfixate on certain brands of cereal because ive seen the “dick likes sugar cereal” thing floating around, and because this the projection corner I think he prefers to eat it a certain way, probably dry because of easy transporting and he can bring as a quick snack for when hes on the go, but I think he also would like the crunchy texture and mouth feel. again projection corner I think he would fucking hate gelatinous foods with a passion. but also like gritty foods would probably be a no go. like he can eat them if he needs too because bat training and all that doesn't mean he would enjoy it lol. and like I feel like when hes knighting hes just in a consent state of near discomfort bc hes masking so hard(lol)  so when hes dick Greyson he sorta lets lose a bit and his symptoms are worse or hes allowed to be particular about things like food when hes a civilian.  and I think he probably likes the texture of the nightwing suit otherwise he would peel his skin off. projecting is fun so I think he would hate rough and scratchy clothes and bed sheets are the bane of his existence so he kicks them off before going to bed other wise he can't sleep. he probably fidgets with his gadgets quite a bit especially when on patrol and hes looking around and nothing much is happening. I think dick would do the leg bounce tm as a civilian a lot maybe play with his hair if its long, or just generally messing with with when hes nervous or fidgeting. idk I guess im making nightwing his “nooo guys dw im super normal im just like everyone I am a functional put together adult haha” which its funny bc masking. I think this dude would have so many built in work arounds like (projecting) audio processing problems, so he probably has people either reapet or smth to like record and play back that or hes just really smooth about (smile and nod and hope to god that was the correct answer) anyway sorry back on topic, i  have dick having a stuffed animal named zitka (?) that an elephant and like hell yeah, but also I think his thing is very much a “ive had a bad time today and I just need to destress for a bit and hold something soft/familiar in a dark room for a bit” as you can tell I am projecting onto dick Greyson a lot lol. anyway I think he would also struggle to like, eat consistently, like eating too much or eating too little bc he gets distracted with a case then over compensates or he gets bored and then eats to get some form of stimulation(I do this lol) I just think dick would chew on things but be embarrassed about it(projection) but yeah I just think this asshole would have a system tm that no one else gets bc his room just looks dirty as hell but hes like Nono guys I set my bag and wallet in the same spot in the corner of the room because if I dont I will spend 30 minutes looking for it and it will be in the freezer. that and I think he would either do really well with cold foods or really badly. I think dick is the kinda guy that would leave his sodas out overnight so they stop being fizzy bc he hates the feeling of the fizz(projecting) but yeah overall I think he prefer sweeter foods as like his comfort/perfered foods. I also like the hc that he can cook he just doesn't have a lot of time too, so he snacks a lot bc he needs the energy. adding my own shit onto it, executive dysfunction got his ass like “I could get up and make a sandwich I know what I need to do I have the ingredients and im hungry but I can't fucking get up to do it” anyway funtimes in hyperfixation with grem thanks for reading the insane rambles <3