Cassandra De Rolo Headcanons
CritRole/LOVM's character cass
disabilities, neurodivergences, disorders etc
physical:
chronic back pain/issues has a defect in her spine, born with a twisted facet joint fused at the base thats caused her spine to twist growing up causing pain, flattening her feet, shifting her jaw and so on. not enough to be visibly noticable but enough that she needs pain management.
chronic headaches brought on primarily by back and jaw pain.
chronic fatigue caused by many things including chronic pain, low energy etc
Anemia. heavily anemic, requires iron supplements
visual snow syndrome
visual impairment far sighted, one eye a bit more heavily impaired than the other.
hearing impairment mild, hard of hearing in one hear also has audio processing disorder has to face a person in order to understand whats being said includes tinnitus.
rheumatoid arthritis swelling and pain in the joints, usually in the hands more than anything
aids:
cane has a cane, percy possibly made one for her at some point customizes it, probably took a whole day just painting her cane as a personal side project.
wheelchair occasionally uses a wheelchair on the worst days especially after the ordeal with the briarwoods percy absolutely made the wheelchair even adding things to it. ramps were built next to stars and in doorways where needed in the castle and around whitestone so she(and others) can get around with it easier.
wrist brace wears it for stability when writing helps a bit with the arthritis in her joints
reading glasses a different prescription to percy's rarely ever wears them used to swap hers with percy's when they were kids if it werent for percy also needing glasses she never would have used hers ever, probably would have hated them and trashed them really early on
sensory/stim aids percy likes making things for people so he for sure made something for her to fidget with created the first fidget cube for his sister before he made the first guns to ever exist /silly pen twirler. keeps old pens just to fidget with maybe has chewelry? or did as a kid weighted blanket and weighted pillow.
compression wear. her gloves provide compression for her joints also has compression socks
mental:
autistic finds comfort in certain textures, routines, predictable schedule changes and set times she can plan for/around. chronically understimulated but is very quick to overstimulate when there are multiple stimuli outputs has trouble understanding social cues, finds little interest in conversations outside special interests requires/has required some support on occasion definitely has rsd(rejection sensitivity disorder) and prosopagnosia(face blindness) to a degree. didnt recognize percy right away when he came back, especially since it was the first time seeing him in so long he looked (and likely sounded) a bit different from the last time they saw each other so it took a second or more to register who he was outside being charmed by sylas. semi-verbal/speaking, signs instead of speaking when nonverbal if she can, has someone translate the signing for her during meetings, this also helps with her hoh as the translater provides signs when others talk.
BPD has borderline personality disorder, percy being one of if not her only fp(favourite person)
ASPD has antisocial personality disorder struggles with initiating conversation and a habit of self-isolation.
PTSD post traumatic stress disorder. need i explain?
synesthesia associates words with colours, textures with tastes, vice versa and so on.
mild aphantasia cannot picture things in her head based on verbal description alone, faces and objects are fuzzy, never vivid or clear.
maladaptive daydreaming disorder
imposter syndrome has times where her intrusive thoughts and self doubt cause her to avoid asking for help because she doesnt think she needs it or her conditions are "bad enough" for assistance.
cotard's syndrome aka walking corpse syndrome requires assurance on occasion that shes still alive struggles a lot with this and still vividly remembers the feeling of the arrows that struck her when she and percy tried escaping.
dyslexia
dyscalculia
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