Micah has ADHD, a rundown:
okay so basic stuff i've probably already said, but this kid fidgets with anything he can get his hands on. he's a cronic leg bouncer and pen clicker and likes drumming his fingers on things. now that i figured out that bionic hands can involve a lot of stims, i’m probably going to end up writing him fiddling with his own prosthetic from time to time.
i don't really have a current special interest for him, but dinosaurs were a big one as a kid and i think he's just full of other animal facts as well. i know some friends have suggested pokemon but 1) most of my pokemon knowledge comes through pop cultural osmosis and 2) if this story does get published or made into a cartoon series or something that’s a topic i have to walk around due to copywrite but yeah ah
it's sort of the norm for him to get up and go do something, forget why he got up, sit back down, and remember 5 minutes later. he also frequently stops during a sentence, interrupts himself and continues on with another thought, and then goes back to the original idea. it's all connected though, not super random rambling. like a thought process would be "oh yeah so-and-so wanted me to print that one thing for them tomorrow, right? cool. oh yeah, i should probably clean out the gecko enclosures tomorrow too. while i'm at it i need to stock up on mealworms, i'll do that after i go to the library and print out that thing so-and-so needed."
this dude is big on empathy and was probably really emotional as a (smaller) kid. i know this is a silly example but i guess seasonally appropriate. the whole idea of eating chocolate bunnies for Easter weirds him out. 1) why would you do that, don’t you feel guilty? you ate that poor rabbit’s ears. 2) he doesn’t even celebrate easter so it’s just a strange tradition thats sort of freaky to him
another thing that has always been a part of his bio since i first started to expand upon his character was "has a hard time saying no to tasks. Thinks he can take on anything. Can keep his cool, doesn’t get too flustered or choked up. Rarely gets overwhelmed but when he does he completely shuts down." and i feel like this is still true, he's genuinely pretty happy and energetic and the one that tries to keep things upbeat and makes himself friends with everyone he can.he doesn't like knowing he upset someone or disappointed them but he tries not to let it bother him, he's pretty good with brushing things off. but if it's a particularly bad day or week i can see him closing himself off and thinking a lot of things are his fault.
i can't see him as being overly angry or yelling, so its probably a sharp decrease in self worth and all focus kinda just disappears.he doesn't like having other people know he's upset so he'll downplay a lot of his own problemsit would take a lot of stress for him to actually have an outburst, but i think another big part of his character development is learning that it's okay to express negative emotions because trying to keep them in only hurts him in the end
this is all i have so far, but i’m still looking up ways on how to write someone with ADHD respectfully without making their symptoms appear stereotypical, but as someone who probably has some form of undiagnosed ADHD or ASD a lot of these things are also me projecting so there’s a lot of overlap
but yeah! thanks for letting me spill some info about this kid. i love him
