Mental Health Series - Autism
Let's talk a little about Mental Health? BBC Sherlock, as other series, just flirt a little with the theme, using it for comic relief or plot proposes. Consequently, it doesn't develop the subject satisfyingly, fixing on stereotypes and creating, most of the time, a superficial or even inaccurate representation. But thank god fandom gave us fanfiction, so we could fix that.
This series will contain an edit picture, a little text talking about the subject of the day and a fic rec with fanfics that abbord the theme.
The conditions and disorders in this edits are the ones that were explicitly mentioned in the series.
Warning: Please, don't use this post as a diagnoses tool.
"Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental condition that involves persistent challenges in social interaction, speech and nonverbal communication, and restricted/repetitive behaviors. The effects of ASD and the severity of symptoms are different in each person.
ASD is usually first diagnosed in childhood with many of the most-obvious signs presenting around 2-3 years old, but some children with autism develop normally until toddlerhood when they stop acquiring or lose previously gained skills. Autism is a lifelong condition. However, many children diagnosed with ASD go on to live independent, productive, and fulfilling lives."
- American Psychiatric Association
One of the most common headcannons on the fandom, an autistic Sherlock isn't a discussion exclusive to the BBC Sherlock fandom. The debate includes not only the Canon, but other adaptations like Elementary, Granada Holmes and Miss Sherlock. In the BBC Series, this is hinted on a conversation between John and Lestrade in The Hounds of Baskerville.
The subject is wonderfully discussed in this posts: X - X - X - X - X
Trigger Warning: Some of the situations and subjects in these works may be triggering, please always check the tags or the notes first.
On Pins and Needles Series
By 7PercentSolution, J_Baillier
598k, Teen to Explicit, Johnlock
Series Progression: Finished
224k, Teen and Up Audiences
Series Progression: Not Finished
Series Progression: Not Finished
By 7PercentSolution, J_Baillier
503k, General to Explicit, Johnlock
Series Progression: Not Finished
This series is an alternate universe one, featuring the exciting medical and romantic adventures of doctors Watson (senior neuroanaesthetist) and Holmes (neurosurgeon).
12k, Teen and Up Audiences, Johnlock
Work Progression: Finished
All the little things we never got to see when an army doctor and a consulting detective were adjusting to sharing a flat. And a life.
15k, General to Teen, Johnlock
Series Progression: Not Finished
Not necessarily related, perhaps not even in the same universe, but all feature a Sherlock with Asperger's Syndrome. AKA, just Sherlock.
Work Progression: Finished
'John finds it ironic that the most emotion he has ever seen Sherlock show is to a dying insect'
It takes John Watson a little while to discover Sherlock Holmes' obsession with bees; but when he does, he wonders how he ever could have missed it.
3k, Teen and Up Audiences, Johnlock
Work Progression: Finished
He calls himself a sociopath because he’d rather be hated than pitied.
Invisible barriers. [Why should it matter?]
2k, Teen and Up Audiences, Johnlock
Work Progression: Finished
He could close his eyes and - if he ignored the cold, hard press of the glass against his cheek - he was leaning against John. [Close off the other senses, ignore the mechanical clunking and metallic screeching and the smell of steel and the dirty air.] They could have been in the flat. Just on the sofa. Warm and soft, together. [This feels dangerous.]
Delirium was a perfectly viable diagnosis. [It certainly feels like it.] [What’s wrong with me?]
