Neurodivergence
Great works featuring neurodivergence and/or mental illness. More info in profile.
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even good things (healing wounds sting) by ruggedBeast
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
22 Sep 2025
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Tim should be excited, right?
He had asked for this, spent weeks hoping it would work out. Tim wanted this. Wanted to move in with the Waynes, wanted desperately to not be so alone anymore.
And yet, for some reason, he didn't feel better. It was as though he'd been set adrift, none of the anchors of his old life left to cling to. No rocks, no routines. And even though everything at Wayne Manor was better, it was so very different.
Or: When you're autistic, even the best changes can still be overwhelming. The Manor comes with more interaction, with more noise, with more life and Tim doesn't know how to handle it. Things come to a head with the first meltdown Tim's had outside of his carefully constructed hiding place.
The biggest change of all is that now there are people to catch Tim when he's falling.
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Hakoda just wants to destroy the Fire Navy, is that so much to ask?
Apparently yes, as his second in command drags in a net containing one half drowned fire prince with a severe brain injury. He can't justify tossing him back like the crew wants, so he will just keep him prisoner until they make it to port and then he's the Earth Kingdom's problem.
(Does it count as imprisonment if he's allowed to run around the ship as he pleases?)Hakoda and the crew slowly adopt a brain damaged fire prince. Just another day at sea.
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Harry is autistic and his main special interest is snakes. Being autistic changes how Harry perceives certain situations, and what solutions he comes up with to fix them. Unfortunately, Dumbledore is worried that Harry is following in Tom's footsteps (why is the boy constantly telling everyone random facts about snakes?!?!?) and tries to lead the boy down the right path. The two of them meet weekly for tea. However, Harry keeps taking the wrong things away from them, and leaves these meetings encouraged and determined. Not Dumbledore. Dumbledore is very bewildered.
Also, telling everyone not to go on the third floor instead of placing precautions to keep people from doing it is stupid and doesn't make any sense, and Harry sets out to prove his point. Ron and Hermione have no idea what's going on half the time. Chaos ensues.
Oh yeah, and Quirrell/Voldemort is very very confused.
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Humans were fascinating creatures.
Spock had spent a large portion of his life studying them, and he still had no idea why they did the things they did. Every time he thought he had a handle on it, they did something completely out of pocket.
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OR: Spock contemplates Humans. Especially one James T. Kirk.
Trektober day 4! Prompt: Alien anatomy
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- Part 4 of Trektober 2023
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Two months was something of a random anniversary, really. But Spock figured if there was ever a time to share such an emotional sentiment, it was on the anniversary of bonding with a very emotional, sentimental Human.
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OR: Spock puts together an anniversary dinner for his T'hy'la.
Trektober day 3! Prompt: anniversary
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- Part 3 of Trektober 2023
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even good things (healing wounds sting) by ruggedBeast
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
22 Sep 2025
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Tim should be excited, right?
He had asked for this, spent weeks hoping it would work out. Tim wanted this. Wanted to move in with the Waynes, wanted desperately to not be so alone anymore.
And yet, for some reason, he didn't feel better. It was as though he'd been set adrift, none of the anchors of his old life left to cling to. No rocks, no routines. And even though everything at Wayne Manor was better, it was so very different.
Or: When you're autistic, even the best changes can still be overwhelming. The Manor comes with more interaction, with more noise, with more life and Tim doesn't know how to handle it. Things come to a head with the first meltdown Tim's had outside of his carefully constructed hiding place.
The biggest change of all is that now there are people to catch Tim when he's falling.
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Damian figures out something about himself in the worst way possible //TW: suicide attempt
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Tim isn't sure what started it— he never really is— but there had just been so many noises all of a sudden. All of them layered on top of each other: the TV, the clicking of Titus' nails against the floor, Damian talking to Alfred (the butler) in the next room over, the thump of Alfred (the cat) jumping from his cat tree to the ground, and the click-click-click of the gas stove turning on. All of it piling on top of each other until Tim thought he might start crying or screaming at the top of his lungs just to get all of it to stop.
(It's happened before. It'll happen again. Tim isn't sure how to stop it, though, or what the problem even is in the first place. Everything just feels like too much all of a sudden, and he's stuck feeling so angry he could hit somebody.)
He ended up running away to hide in his room like a baby. And now he's going to miss dinner.
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It was just one of those things. Jason Todd was better off dead.