#francesca simon

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to iconic british kid's books that are framed like you're supposed to pick one of two siblings to side with and hate the other one, but when you read them as an adult you realise the parents are just horribly emotionally abusive and pitting the siblings against each other by making them into the golden child and the scapegoat, and they're both victims, and the parents just never get called out on this or face any consequences or learn the error of their ways at any point.

[horriblehistorieslandfill]

ouhwww my babies 😢😢😢😭😭

[mintyscuriocabinet]

Horrid Henry agre

Pls help me I'm obsessed with this series

Lmao love this

I'm obsessed too, I must have nearly every book at this point. Henry reminds me so much of myself when I was a kid 😆

[ibarravgomez]

Horrid Henry has no chance in a household he must share with the snooty Perfect Peter. So if he must be horrid, why not go all out?

While probably meant to be cautionary tales for children, Horrid Henry is such a fun little dirtbag that I found all the stories be just plain amusing!

[alottaissues]

Have been addicted to Horrid Henry recently and I wanted to draw some of the characters I love in the show. Behold:

- Horrid Henry

- Perfect Peter

- Rude Ralph

- Moody Margaret

- Weepy William

- Lazy Linda

[do-u-know-this-autisticcharacter]

Do You Know This (non-canon) Autistic Character?

Henry from Horrid Henry (book and cartoon)

Yes, I know him and see them as autistic

Yes, I know him, but I don't see them as autistic

I've heard of him

I don't know him, but they seem autistic

I don't know him, but they don't seem autistic

I don't know him

Voting ended onJan 18, 2025

Propaganda from submitter:

Henry is written off as a troublemaker but he actually has a lot of autistic traits that impact his behaviour.

1. He is an outcast and has like 1 guy who consistently speaks to him, the rest of the class find him strange and annoying. When he invites them to his birthday party, he wins his classmates over with how many cool things there's gonna be at the party, instead of them just wanting to celebrate him as a friend.

2. He hates vegetables! He also hates swimming. Those are the 2 sensory issues i've noticed so far. The reason he hates swimming is because of how the water feels on his skin, and he avoids it in school as best as he can.

3. He has a surprisingly strict routine and throws tantrums when his plans get ruined. I related to him in the birthday episode when he got upset that his parents didn't follow his orders for the party (they changed his food ideas into healthy ones without telling him, for example), because I was also the kid that cried at my birthday party when it didn't go the way I expected it to. A common event in episodes is that someone is stopping him from watching his favourite show on TV when he had planned to watch it.

4. Speaking of TV, he has such a special interest in the show "Mutant Max". He references it all the time and just *has* to watch it on TV when it airs. His other interest is toy guns, either like nerf guns or water guns. In one episode, he gets completely fixated on some toys that are found in cereal boxes.

5. He cannot get his homework in on time, which in an autistic interpretation would mean that he struggles with getting things done when he's not interested in them.

[yupthatsoundsright]

As Horrid Henry grows older, what do you think his relationship with his family would be like?

Hmm I know most people hate Henry’s parents with a passion and I do to sometimes but I really like the idea of literally everyone in the family chills out as they get older starting with Henry getting less mischievous or at the very least only uses pranks for good and this results with Simon and whatever headcanon name you have for the mum (I like Francesca cause Simon was named after the Simon family so it feels appropriate to me to just complete the reference to the author and her family) punishing Henry less and this results in Peter no longer feeling like he has to be perfect to receive love cause “Henry isn’t perfect and they still love him” so he sheds his toxic perfectionism and this makes Henry like him a lot more cause he no longer acts like he’s better than Henry

It takes some adjusting for everyone to get used to the new status quo and how different they’re all acting and this causes them all to reflect Simon and Francesca realize that they’ve been too hard on Henry and have been actively treating him with more benefit of doubt and understanding Henry reflects and thinks about how he wasn’t the easiest child to raise and he’s been picking up more responsibilities around the house like cleaning up and being more tidy (Henry is definitely sympathetic but he is also a little shit and I do not want this to be ignored) and Peter reflects on how his parents favoritism towards him have stunted his and Henry’s relationship as brothers so he’s been regularly hanging out with Henry they love bonding over music specifically Henry also learned guitar so they play together all the time too in general most of the problems the family used to have are gone simply cause they grew out of it changed as people and did some self reflection on what they used to be like

tl;dr: they all got older and mellowed out

[mysteriousssnail]

A Henry who is also Horrid