#autistic kenma

[yamisamuel]

Random Haikyuu fanfic idea that I got while talking about disabled characters with my friend

Lev randomly mentioned how he likes having another neurodivergent person in the team, since he has ADHD, but no one in the nekoma team knows who he is talking about.

Then Lev is like :” What do you mean? Kenma is autistic!”

And then Kenma is like: “No I am not-“ “…”

Then Kenma and the whole team starts thinking about the way Kenma behaves and they all end up doing research about autism together. Kenma realizes how the possibility of him being autistic makes sense and would explain a lot.

Later Kenma decides to ask his parents to take him to assessments and gets diagnosed with autism.

[kanoyachi]

kuroo is an "i am aware of social rules from careful observation but i can only guess how, when, and with who it's appropriate to break or bend them, so it's hard to form friendships that are deeper than surface level" autistic

bokuto is a "i love talking to and being with people but they tell me i can be too much. i wish i knew exactly what that meant so i could stop but people are always so vague when i upset them" autistic

akaashi is a "there is a social interaction flowchart in my brain with hundreds of different paths that i go through every time i interact with a person i am not incredibly close with. it's exhausting and i freeze whenever i find myself in a situation i don't have a script for" autistic

kenma is an "no one tells me what they expect from me but i know it's more than i can give. i can never tell when something i do or say is going to be considered 'wrong' so maybe i just shouldn't say things" autistic

kuroo finds that friendship comes easily with the other three. of course, he's been friends with kenma since they were little, but the other two are so... strange in the best way possible. seeing their disregard for norms lets him relax enough that he doesn't find connection blocked by the wall of rules he has to force himself to follow.

bokuto loves being with the other three because he's one hundred percent confident that their friendship is real. he can be himself around them without the tiniest bit of worry that they're gearing up to tell him that he's too much, because he knows they love him and would tell him explicitly if he ever did something to upset them.

akaashi enjoys the other three's company because they don't act the way his mental flowchart does. he can easily predict how they'll act and react, not because he watched them as an outsider for years in hopes that he could learn to be "normal," but because he genuinely understands them in a way he doesn't most other people. and they understand him.

kenma enjoys the other three's company because they never make him feel like there's anything wrong with the way he is, and he knows they never will. his deeply ingrained fears might not ever disappear, but he finds that with them there's almost no hesitation, no pause to consider possible reprecussions of any statement he makes before he says it. it's good, and comfortable, like it should be.

[ndkuroken]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[bnha-butterfly]

I didn't originally Intend for the last aks to be a request, more just saying that I love hearing abt autistic hcs but seeing as I like to hear them and you like to talk about them, I'd love to hear about your general autistic hcs for haikyuu!! If u want to treat this as an request then u can bc I'd love to listen 😊

Kinda structured this like my autistic BNHA post!

Here are the characters I generally think fall in the spectrum: Kageyama, Ushijima, Tsukishima, Aone, Kenma (trust me there are more, I can and have thought of every single character being on the spectrum at least once)

Kageyama is probably an elementary school diagnosis.

He has a special interest in volleyball although that goes without saying

He is definitely a tactile stimmer. I can see him with one of those spinner rings!

Ushijima was probably diagnosed 3-4. He was verbal in time with his age but he wasn’t meeting certain social development markers

Another person with a special interest in volleyball!

He’s also a tactile stimmer. Prefers the texture of things like sand and slime/putty

 i’ve already said this but Tsukishima’s safe food/ go to meal is fries and nuggets. Specifically the smiley face french fries and the dinosaur nuggets (yes they do taste different)

He rarely strays from his safe foods

He probably got diagnosed late in middle school and gives me internalized ableism vibes (there are a lot of people who are late diagnosis who struggle with internalized ableism)

Auditory stimmer primarily with songs/music.

He had a special interest in dinosaurs and volleyball to a much lesser extent

Aone was diagnosed at 2-3 because he was way behind developmentally when it came to speech. He probably didn’t start talking till he was like 3.5 or 4

Primarily nonverbal. Thats it that’s the whole point

Visual stimmer!! Paint mixing videos and those slime videos where people mix glitter into slime. Vocal stimmer too!

Specifical interest in reptiles!!

Kenma is another one who very rarely stays away from his safe foods

He will only drink four flavors of monster energy: Pipeline punch, mango loco, original, and ultra red

Special interest in video games!! Timeskip!Kenma owns all of the nentendo consoles and is on a mission to own functioning versions of all the games. 

(Timeskip!Kenma also owns a MAME cabinet)

Tactile stimmer? Likes the feeling of pressing the buttons on a handheld game. Also an ofactory stimmer. He just really enjoys the way certain things smell

[dudeboyyyy]

autistic kenma is officially my favorite headcanon so here's him playing w my favorite stim toy 💛

[image id: a traditional drawing of kenma from Haikyuu! colored with colored pencils and copic markers. The drawing is lined with a black pen. He is wearing a red jacket over a white hoodie. His expression is neutral and he is looking down. He is holding a blue popping stim toy and using his thumbs to pop it. The word "pop" is written several times around him. Above his right shoulder is the artist's signature written in yellow, which reads "bee" with a heart. End ID.]

[kanoyachi]

what makes me so happy about kenma is that he's obviously purposefully written as being autistic, or at least some other type of nd? like he's shown stimming, he has bad posture, he has an unsteady gait, he rarely makes eye contact with people outside of kuroo and hinata, he has long hair to cover his field of vision so he doesn't get overwhelmed, he startles easily, he only ever wears soft clothing, he gets cold really easily and can't stand extreme temperatures, and videogames are his special interest. and he's loved and has friends and idk! it just brings me so much joy!

[ndkuroken]

👀 reading a post about autistic people having generally ""odd""posture so that's another point for Neurodivergent!Kenma

[thy-lovelylionheart]

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