When Dylan comes back and starts appearing again, please please pleaseĀ DONāT ask him about his injuries.
If heās as fully healed and well as rumors claim, heās probably nervous about showing his face in public again after his traumatic accident and long disappearance. Weāve been craving any photo, any update on him sources were willing to toss us and TWS6 isnāt too far away so when we do finally see Dylan again after what feels like centuries, itās probably going to be crazy.Ā
Dylan gets anxiety about things like that, which is more than likely why he doesnāt attend conventions or events anymore like he used to years ago. He never wanted to be famous or as popular as he is now and probably never expected to. Think about how he feels with not only paparazzi trying to deliberately invade his personal space, hormonal teenagers oversexualizing/objectifying him endlessly and making him uncomfortable by seeing how far they can get with physical touch, etc. whenever they think thereās an opportunity and trying to hold onto whatever he can of a normal life among all of that.Ā
Honestly? Thant kind of thing adds up and has an effect on a person.Ā The last thing he needs is the entire universe trying to squeeze information out of him and plead for all of the clandestine details about what happened to him during the accident. Heās not going to want that and heās probably already thinking about what to say to those or how to handle millions pressuring him for information about that. Letās not, okay? Letās save him the stress and anxiety and just leave it alone. We want him to be comfortable appearing again. We donāt need to know how it happened. As long as heās alive and heās not hurt, we should be thankful. Itās okay if he doesnāt want anyone to know and itās okay if he doesnāt want to talk about it.Ā
His family was very kind to us throughout the whole scenario while keeping it hush-hush (and they chose to interact with us even though they knew how upset and worried we were), and other sources wouldnāt have treated us that well. It doesnāt matter what triggered it or whose fault it was. it happened and we canāt erase that. we can just hope heās okay.
On another note, I would like to take this opportunity and use this as a friendly reminder that Ā we all need to give the way we treat Dylan a makeover and change things. When he comes back, I want all of us to treat him better ā including asking permission for photos and hugs first, no sexual tweets, no gross signs in his presence,Ā no āCAN I HAVE A HUG/I LOVE YOU SO MUCH/MARRY ME!!!ā during panel questions, no touching inappropriately or seeing how far we can get when we meet or get close enough, no objectification, no āf*ck me daddyā, none of that. I want to show him that weāre mature, we respect him and weāre not animals. We want him to feel comfortable around us and we donāt want to violate his space or make him nervous. We want to make sure heās okay because we genuinely care for him and support him. heās a human, not a sex object. letās be different and show him that. ItĀ might make him feel better, heāll notice and appreciate it. We can show love without being provocative/perverted about it, itās easy! Just smile, be really nice to him, talk to him and ask first if you want something to make sure heās okay with it and I PROMISE heāll feel a lot more comfortable interacting with us again. DylanāsĀ personal space and safety > our satisfaction. We have to give back and make sure our idol is happy first before we are.
Letās change these things and spread this around our fandoms before his next appearance so that we can surprise him by how well-behaved and sweet we are and help him not to feel so on edge about being back. If enough of us tweet the fandom not to ask Dylan anything about his accident, we can prevent it from happening. Heās always been so good to us no matter what he has to put up with, and this would be really nice of us to do for him.
