#autistic ronance

[wildestflowrs]

Ok ok ok so how about Nancy knowing Robin gets anxious about whether she’s talking too much but equally wants to info dump about her special interests all the time, so she purposefully starts bringing up Rob’s special interests and current hyperfixations just so she can talk about them without feeling like she’s derailing to conversation.

Like one night while they’re out with the rest of the Spicy Six™️ Robin seems a bit fidgety and uncomfortable so Nancy just casually says:

“Hey, Rob? What was it you were telling me about Ancient Greek and Latin the other day? Like about the etymology or something-?”

And she just watches as Robin comes into herself again, rambling on about her language knowledge and ancient civilisations, and Nancy is just lovestruck. Like full-on heart eyes, dreamy sighs and dopey smiles. And if one of the group tries to stop Robin before she’s done Nancy glares. Seeing Robin so happy and enthusiastic as she moves her hands around while she talks and taps her feet under the table had Nancy completely enthralled by this dorky, intelligent, beautiful girl.

Sometimes Robin still catches herself when she’s rambling, and will ask Nancy quietly, “Nance, am I talking too much?”

And Nancy will always reply: “no, never, love,”

[wildestflowrs]

Autistic Nancy Wheeler (+ autistic Robin) Headcanons because there needs to be more of them:

• One of Nancy’s favourite stims is flapping her hands

• Robin also likes to stim by flapping her hands so they hold each others’ hands and flap and wave together <3

• When Nancy was little and couldn’t speak, loud child Mike would speak for both of them, because he had a good understanding of her :)

• Nancy’s special interests are journalism, guns and literature

• She gets upset and overwhelmed when things are moved around in her room

• When she’s experiencing a meltdown or shutdown, pressure really helps. Usually Robin ends up holding her hand super tight or laying on her and hugging her

• Loud and sudden noises don’t really effect her too much, but she hates overlapping noise

• She gets really agitated when she goes into sensory overload - starts snapping at people for little things, biting the inside of her cheek, clenching her fists so hard she sometimes draws blood

• Nancy and Robin have an emergency sensory kit in their car - ear defenders, earplugs, things to chew on, tactile objects and fabrics, stim toys, sunglasses, cassettes and a Walkman

• One of Nancy’s safe foods is blueberry muffins. She and Robin bake them together all the time <3

• Nancy learns to cook all of Robin’s favourite foods and safe foods, and Robin does the same

• After Robin and Nancy had been dating for a little while and realised that they both often struggled with communication and going non-verbal, Nancy spent a whole day making communication cards that could be kept in their pockets :)