autism and sherlock holmes
- Coming off as rude, cold, even cruel because he (a) does not understand social customs (b) usually has very low empathy and can’t understand why/how/when people are uncomfortable or offended © flat effect
- Being able to notice every detail about everything but not always understanding the bigger picture (he falls back on John for this, who can make some of the connections he sometimes misses)
- Needing people to remind him to eat, drink, and sleep — sometimes even needing meals made for him and other chores done on his behalf
- Not being able to identify what he’s feeling or why he’s feeling it and instead saying he feels nothing at all
- Falling into drug addiction as a way of coping with sensory overload and social isolation
- Talking out loud to himself to overcome executive dysfunction and brain fog
- His special interests being chemistry and crime; he doesn’t understand why it’s inappropriate to info dump about crime or why no one else can keep up when he talks about chemistry
- He uses deduction as a way to understand body language and people’s intentions
- STIMS: playing his violin, smoking (he mostly vapes these days), flapping his hands, pacing, tapping his fingers, rocking, spinning, etc.
- Bonus stim is chewing on his antique pipe even when he isn’t smoking
- He goes non-verbal for “days on end”, only occasionally communicating through grunts and hand gestures
- Having selective memory bc the things he’s not interested in just don’t stick
- Hyper-focusing on cases, sometimes to an unhealthy degree and needing reminders to slow down and take care of himself
- Having meltdowns when he can’t understand things/is overwhelmed/pushes himself too far
- Shutting down after the euphoria of solving a case
- His coat is a comfort item, he relies on the soft interior, the warmth, and the weight across his shoulders (plus, pockets filled with stim toys and case (special interest) notes!)
anyway if your holmes isn’t an autistic gay trans man w ocd and adhd i don’t wanna hear anything about him
It’s not about Johnlock for me
It’s not about Johnlock.
Johnlock is only part of the problem. Many people in fandom, in tjlc part of fandom, are academics, writers, literary critics. We are taught to read texts. It’s our fucking job, what we have studied for.
The problem is, and I think it’s time to address it properly, that Moffits do not ever deliver. They always chicken out.
Finish the first season with a cliffhanger? Give your audience a lame resolution two years after.
The fall? Give zero explanation and mock your fans for theorizing. And yes, it was mocking.
Mary shot Sherlock? Gloss over this, bury it deep under the rug and pretend it did not happen.
Write a season, the fourth, which is filled with inconsistencies, with glaring continuity errors, and let it dangle as a possible clue to something more and then – forget all about it.
Get criticism? Answer with a poem rather than stop and think, “hang on, maybe he’s right, maybe we sort of don’t know where the fuck we are going”
Fill your show with romantic tropes, have your network queerbait the fuck out of fans and then get offended and be a dick to a fan who dares asking questions.
Yeah, the problem is not the lack of Johnlock. The problem is lack of intellectual honesty and humility.
I made a mistake, I overestimated them as writers. Lesson fucking learned.
I love it when others can put into a few simple sentences everything I feel but don’t have the talent to write down!
So I don’t normally post my videos onto Tumblr but….I feel like some people would appreciate this one…
This is.. the sass in this is both 100% true and absolute gold.
“Lets be honest, it’s white male writers.”
John met Sherlock on January 29th, 1881. That makes their friendship 133 years old today.
134 years old today.
135 years old today.
136 years old today.
recently hit 400 followers, which I know is not a lot in the grand scheme but it feels like a lot! thank you guys so much, I have such a good time in this community and feel very appreciated :-) u guys are chill as hell
