Another situation i thought of while coffee crashing and listening to music in my comically oversized headphones
Patton, barely entering Virgil’s room: Hey, kiddo. I hope you don’t mind if I borrow your headphones for a second? I’ll give them back if you need them while I’m using them.
Virgil: Awh, overstimulated again? Its fine you can have them. Do you need a hug too?
Patton: …yes please
Virgil: Awesome, let me put the playlist designed to calm me down.
And then Patton fell asleep with the headphones on while Virgil was hugging him tightly.
I’m considering making a neurodivergent sides discord server for fans who wanna project onto the sides like adhd logan or autistic virgil
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EDIT: I MADE IT
https://discord.gg/zxSGj8d
also if i find out you support r//mr//m you’re getting kicked
In the first, Patton is smiling softly. Text post by @spongebob-autisticque (url is cut off) reads, "Shout out to all the autistic students out their struggling with burnout, meltdowns, shut downs, etc during finals / You can do it / Don't be too hard on yourself / Use self care / ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜".
In the second, Patton looks overwhelmed. His hands are on his cheeks. Text post by @autistic-reptile reads, "To other autistic people / who else gets stuck on one word as your default response, but then you realize mid-conversation that you're using it way too much but can't think of another word to use?? / Example - / Them: so it's kinda like __ in a way, you know? / Me: yeah yeah, totally / Them: does that make sense? / Me: yeah totally! / Them: ok great, I'll see you tomorrow then? / Me: yep, totall- / My brain: STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP".
In the third, Patton is holding his hands out in front of him. Text post by @ifyougiveamouseatuba reads, "God making me: I diagnose this one with clumsy".
In the fourth, Patton is smiling and pointing at himself with his thumb. Text post by @sweetandsavageautistic reads, "Autism joke / What do you call a group of autistics? / Au-some. / I'll go home." /end id]
ao3: “icing infinity”
rating: T
warnings: food, autistic patton, LAMP
genre: fluff
description: Patton makes cookies for autism acceptance month. His boyfriends help. for anon prompt: "I just wanted to know if you could write some autistic LAMP or Logicality, usually Logan or the creativitytwins are hc autistic, but I really like autistic Patton. :'))
One of Patton's hands beats a happy rhythm in the air as he dances around the kitchen, pulling down the ingredients he needs to make cookies. He normally prefers to make chocolate chip cookies (they're his favorite, especially with extra chocolate chunks), but he wants to decorate these and for that, he prefers sugar cookies.
"You forgot your apron," Virgil says, poking his head around the corner. Patton's cheeks flush pink when he spies his apron, neatly folded over one chair.
"Thank you, Virge!" Patton says, grabbing it and tying it on. It's baby blue in color, with the words "all you knead is love" written in curly script over a loaf of bread. "I'm making cookies, want to help me?"
"Sure," Virgil says, skulking properly into the kitchen, hands tucked in his jeans pockets. He rocks back and forth on his heels as he watches Patton work. "How uh, how can I help?"
"Why don't you take the big mixing bowl-" Patton points. Appropriately, it's light purple. "-and start mixing the dry ingredients. I have the recipe out, but you can ask me for help!"
"Okay," Virgil says hesitantly, grabbing the bag of flour and getting to work.
"Pat? Have you seen Virgil, he's left his- Oh," Logan says, coming to a stop. "Well, I suppose I don't have to ask you where Virgil is anymore, do I."
"He's right there," Patton says, helpfully pointing a wooden spoon in Virgil's direction.
"You left your chewelry in my room last night," Logan says, depositing a silicone purple bat in Virgil's hand. Virgil immediately goes crimson as he stuffs it into his pocket.
"Chewelry?" Patton asks. "What's that?"
"It is jewelry that is meant to be chewed on," Logan explains. "Virgil uses it to calm his anxiety. Have you never seen it, Patton?"
"Here," Logan says, concentrating for a moment. He hands Patton a chocolate chip cookie-shaped one. "You can chew on it and it's safe. Much safer than biting on your fingers, for instance, or chewing your lip."
"I do that a lot," Patton admits. He looks down at the stim jewelry in his hands. "Here goes nothing!" He says brightly, slinging the necklace over his neck and popping the edge of the silicone in his mouth.
"Oh!" He exclaims in delight a second later, his voice muffled by the chewelry in his mouth. "This is nice!" He flaps both hands in the air, his fingers a blur, as Virgil and Logan look on, smiling.
"Roman could probably make you a bunch of different ones," Logan says. "If you wanted." Patton nods eagerly.
"Back to cookies!" He says, spitting out the stim jewelry and letting it dangle against his shirt. "Do you think Roman wants to help, too?"
"I shall retrieve him," Logan says, volunteering. "If it involves anything creative, he is 'in', as they say."
"I got all the dry ingredients, I think," Virgil says, pushing the mixing bowl Patton's way. "Is that right?"
"Looks right to me," Patton says, cheerful. "Now, let's see if we can finish mixing the cookie dough before Ro and Lo get back!" He giggles at his turn of phrase, and even Virgil can't help the snort that escapes his mouth.
They finish just as Logan and Roman return, Roman with a smear of glitter across one cheek.
"Ooh, cookies!" Roman says. "What kind, Pat?"
"Sugar cookies!" Patton says. "So we can decorate them easier. I have lots of red icing and all the colors of the rainbow!"
"Sounds good to me," Roman says, with a grandiloquent flourish. "Love the apron, by the way." Patton's face turns happy pink as he glances down at his clothes, now lightly flour-dusted.
"You like it?" He asks. Roman nods.
"It is...perhaps...creative word play," Logan acknowledges. It looks like it caused him physical pain to admit it. Patton grins, bouncing on his toes.
Thanks to mind palace physics, the timer goes off a few minutes later and Patton is free to pull out all the sugar cookies, putting them gingerly on cooling racks and pushing a rack toward each person.
"Decoration time!" He announces. Virgil tentatively pokes one cookie, surprised when it doesn't burn him.
Patton finds his new stim accessory tucked firmly in his mouth as he decorates, absently chewing as he smears red icing across the surface of one cookie and ponders how best to create a rainbow infinity sign on another.
"This is nice," Roman says, with a soft sigh. "I was going to go adventuring in the Imagination this afternoon, but-" He looks around at all his boyfriends. "This is better."
"I was just gonna listen to My Chemical Romance all day," Virgil mumbles, adding a thick layer of red icing to the cookie in front of him. Patton turns curious eyes onto Logan, who looks like he is trying to draw a brain on his cookie in pink and white.
"I was going to read an Agatha Christie novel," Logan says. "But I have to agree with the rest of you. This is far more enjoyable."
"Because we're together," Patton says. It comes out muffled, thanks to the silicone cookie, and his boyfriends look at him in confusion. He hastily spits it out again and repeats himself.
"Agreed," Logan says. "Do you like it?" He holds up his cookie. Red borders it on all sides, and he's managed a very passable imitation of a brain.
"I love it," Patton says genuinely. "All of it."
The infinity sign he manages is a little lopsided on one side, but he thinks it's never looked more beautiful.
While we’re on the subject of autistic sides, every one of the sides could be autistic and I love it because autism can be so different in so many people. Like Roman is autistic with his big gestures and not noticing when somebody’s bothered or hurt by what he said. Patton’s autistic with his cat si and his need to make sure his friends are okay all the time and remembering little details about them and his love for soft textures. Logan is autistic because of his inability to understand most 1/?
flappy hands, raptor hands, clapping, rocking, spinning always so full of feelings he just has to move or they dont fit!!
Patton with echolalia, who’s favorite words are like comforting little resting spots
patton with hyperempathy
Patton who takes more meticulous care of his stuffed animals than most people do with actual antiques because they have feelings
patton who gets taken advantage of a lot because other peoples distress is so viscerally upsetting to him that he has to fix it by whatever means possible even if it means sacrificing his own comfort and boundaries
Patton with so many special interests and the unparalleled KING of the gleeful infodump, gets literal stars and hearts in his eyes when he gets to talk! about! his thing!!!
Patton who knows very well he’s annoying. everyone says so. hes tried to stop but it just makes him miserable so might as well be annoying and talking about something that makes you happy right? so what if everyone eventually gets sick of him and leaves
Patton who tries to own being annoying, makes jokes about it - “yup, you know me, just a chatty katty!”
and that works for a while, makes him feel a bit better - or he thinks it does
until one day he’s infodumping to his new friend who doesn’t seem to be listening and he sort of trails off and then
“sorry kiddo, you know me - couldn’t shut me up with a zipper!”
his friend looks up and frowns
“Why would I want you to shut up?”
“Well- I was talking a lot, is all, and- you dont really care, so-”
Cue immediate packing up of the headphones, and Patton’s stomach drops because wow way to go, you made him that mad hes just gonna leave completely
except he doesn’t leave - he just turns, folds his hands, and waits.
“Aren’t you- leaving?”
His friend shakes his head.
“I’m sorry it seemed like wasn’t listening. I was very interested. Please keep going,”
“You don’t have to-”
“I want to, Pat. I was listening. I want to listen.”
And Patton takes a moment to wonder if anyone - ever - has asked for him keep talking.
the answer is no
so it takes some coaxing, but he does start back up, and this time his audience doesn’t feel captive, feels like he really does want to be here, with Patton and that
well thats pretty darn great, as far as patton’s concerned
