#dhmis youtube

[sunnysenny]

Apologies on the quality, very busy so didn't get much time to make this!

BUT HAPPY JUNE 19TH!!! 🥳❤️💛💚

Also happy Juneteenth!

[lost-harbour]

sketches

[bendybonesss]

recolour girls :] i think it's fun how sometimes the recolours are regarded as genderbent in relation to the regular trio bc it implies to me that the yt series' ending is just the three going on estrogen. win for transfems everywhere, good for them <3

coloured robin ref under the cut (the image is very large lol)

[theaspieandtheheadcanons]

Personal Headcanon

The YouTube series was an experiment to see how many teachers can be deployed on a single day. Initially, the plan was that the puppets would learn about creativity after breakfast, time in the early mid day, have a chicken picnic for lunch break in the woods, learn about geography and computers afterwards at the same time, learn about healthy eating at dinner, and finally learn about dreams at bed time.

Some problems that occurred are as follows:

When the puppets were encouraged to let their creativity flow, they vented their frustrations about captivity and the unhinged lessons they had to deal with on a daily basis into their work.

The clock came off as incredibly cruel by Leslie's standards, and the lesson was incredibly rushed to make room for future lessons that would occur later that day.

The chicken picnic was interrupted by intruders from a love cult led by the butterfly, and the other puppets were unmotivated to deal with the intruder.

The geography and computer lessons were supposed to be deployed at the same time, but only the computer initiated his song on cue, which cancels out the geography song that the globe was going to sing.

The boundries and rocks song was another experiment made much later to correct this flaw.

The healthy band is where things start to really fall apart. The red guy has escaped to a village on red guys, and the quality of the song has deteriorated. The teachers were also a lot more aggressive than the clock, outright feeding one of the puppets to the other one. The lesson also kept being interrupted by red guy's calls.

Things are looking bad by the time dreams came around. The song was awful, the teacher was mean, and two of the other puppets were gone. The red guy that escaped was brought back from the village as Lesley was running on a short supply of backups.

One consistent flaw in Lesley's lessons overall is that the red guy has a tendency to escape the most to the point where there's an entire village of them far away from the house. One red guy temporarily visits the village in Family, and the red guy vaguely remembers the village and wants to seek it out for himself and his friends in Transport, but ultimately failed in his quest to find it.

This experiment wasn't a total loss as the computer was proven to be popular enough to be added to the list of recreational activities that Lesley deploys on occasion.

[acestear]

dhmis Roy

Roy is the kind of character that you can never quite know if he’s god or bad.

In the yt series (mostly towards the end) he’s often in the background and in episode 6 he appears in the control room(?) with red guy, and watching this scene made manny people (including myself) believe that roy was controlling the teachers and causing the main characters all the suffering they go through, but in the tv show in episode 3 he saves yellow guy from the family who I believe kidnapped him and weren’t actually supposed to lead the episode. (but that’s another theory)

We’re also introduced to Lesley who seems to be the one controlling the teachers (and the main characters) now. After the tv series was released I have not been able to figure out what Roy’s role is in the dhmis universe, idk maybe it’s obvious and I’m overanalysing it but i just can’t put my finger on it

[doky37]

Smile

[artistredfox]

This is about the youtube series specifically because. Idk this song got me inspired

[cosmosgroundhogday]

Why the DHMIS youtube series is centred around ASD (autism), entirely based around just the songs for now

All three of the main guys show so many ‘tism traits

- all hate change at different points

- every single song relates to a different ‘tism symptom/trait/stereotype

The Creativity Song

- children with ASD are a lot more likely to display a deep sense of creativity and imagination

- they often show lower performance in creativity as it’s all in the brain and unable to express it

- which is essentially the entire song

- the notebook (social rules) is explaining to the three guys how to be creative, limiting what they’re allowed to do, and everything they suggest themselves is told wrong

- yellow guy paints a clown ridiculously quickly and he’s told to “slow down” and destroys the painting (destroying autistic kid’s creativity because what they can express is usually entirely outside of the primary school education)

- the childish primary school activities that ensue that they keep doing “wrong”

- “green is not a creative colour” (this feels like a long shot but there’s the primary media theory that essentially because he doesn’t pick a primary colour like red guy chooses blue and green guy chooses red, he’s not following the primary education, and so this can link to growing up too fast which is a thing a lot of tism kids are forced to do, so yellow guy is ‘mature for his age’ choosing green, and obviously notebook is not happy)

- and then the whole chaos that ensues is mostly the horror aspect, if I can get some film analysis in during a rewatch i shall

The Time Song

- it’s more an adhd trait but it happens in asd too, simply just the disassociation from time

- also obsessive schedules, as to not lose the concept of time

- “an old man died but look a computer”, theorised as the clock keeping the guys from thinking about death to lure them into whatever horror he’s got in store, however what about the fact that autistic people while more empathetic than neurotypical will often not be effected by the concept of human death unless they know them, (idk how much sense that makes but say a cat died that you never knew, that’s sad, but a human dies that you never knew, no feelings, obviously people you know it’s a different story a lot of the time but hopefully you know what i mean)

- the entire scheduling, with fish and bath, forcing of schedules so you don’t lose track of time, cuz often people with asd won’t eat unless they think about the time as hunger isn’t something they will always feel

The Love Song

- my absolute favourite and jesus christ there’s a LOT

- so the yellow guy is aroace, poly, and autistic, and it all shows in this song

- he calls a butterfly a “little baby pigeon”, this is tism in itself

- the first part of a song is literally about how people are ‘different’ and in an ideal world it wouldn’t make a difference and they should live in harmony

- PLEASE

- I can quote every single line in this song and go “THIS IS AUTISM”

- autistic people obviously can feel love, but it’s another concept like gender that in most cases is so much more confusing

- “no it’s a feeling deep inside” “because I’m hungry” - !!!!!!!

- by the end of the song monogamous marriage begins being displayed like a cult

- why would you demonise monogamy in a show like this?

- apart from maybe the fact most autistic people are polyamorous

- because, social rules aren’t real

- and humans are biologically polyamory

- it’s just social conventions that make us monogamous

- but when you’re autistic

- you’re more likely to ignore that

- so

- you see where i’m going :)

- “he’s made for her and she’s made for him that’s the way it’s always been”

- and so ensues feeding Malcolm gravel

- monogamy is a cult

- autistic people >>>>>

The Computer Song

- the biggest metaphor for gifted kid burnout I’ve ever seen

- the way autistic people are treated robotically and praised for enhanced mental abilities as everything about them just b r e a k s

- gifted kids are very clever-y guys

- they can count to a ‘fifty in the blink of an eye

- and paint a picture

- and they can tell you the time

- also the fact that autistic kids are more drawn to technology and being ✨online✨ as an escape from the real world

- red guy being incredibly against change is another thing that’s going on

- the ‘digital home’ could essentially be an autistic brain

- not feeling 🥰real🥰

- wow, look a pie chart

- digital style

- do a digital dancing

- so basically most gifted kids thrived in maths, not always but it’s the main stereotyped one

- the same three being repeated

- eventually “wow look nothing”, the burnout has become

- your skills are gone

- what you gonna do now?

- keep opening the door for it to come back?

- nothing

- it all speeds up and eventually unplugged

- just

- burnout :)

The Healthy Song

- metaphor for ARFID, an ED that’s associated with autism

- as I said I’m not rewatching the actual episodes yet so I’m going entirely off what I remember (which isn’t a lot cuz I hated this episode with a passion) and the song on a spotify playlist

- the explanation of hunger at the start, which is something confusing in autistic people

- pretty sure the can and the other lad will only let the guys eat plain food in little amounts and claims that’s ‘healthy’

- also the explanation of the body as a house, it’s just all very confusing which is a metaphor in itself

- even though ARFID is an ED around the texture of foods and not amounts it still kind of makes sense??

- this one’s a bit of a stretch

- but bread, cream, and plain white sauce keeps the body ticking over??

- that’s limited flavour and texture

- fancy show-offy foods like cooked meats, fruit salads, soil food and yolk is bad

- too much flavour and texture

- but then eventually even plain white sauce is bad

- having a comfort food so much you can’t touch it anymore

- but it’s hard to find a replacement

The Dreams Song

- this one bored me when I used to watch the series

- and I can’t tell a lot from the song apart from it reflects on the entire series

- so

- idk

- but they all have autism and it’s different trait from the spectrum every episode