Headcanons Encouraged!

Ummmm yes? It's alive in that I am still here. It's quiet in that I'm a disabled PhD student who works multiple jobs.

I'd like to be more active here, and hopefully will be again. But I am still here and I do still get all the asks and suggestions!

Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia is Hard of Hearing.

Anne Boonchuy from Amphibia has scoliosis.

Support: for five months, she walked around with only one shoe. She says that after a while, she got used to it. There is no way this wouldn’t have an effect on her back.

Sure, maybe! Like most pieces of media we post about on this blog, I have never seen it and don't have any idea.

But that's the beauty of headcanons! If you believe that this character presents with ADHD, autism, or both, then that's wonderful!

Headcanons allow disabled people opportunities to see ourselves represented in media more frequently than canon allows. Often these headcanons stem from canon support, whether in text or context, but not always. Headcanons, specifically minority based headcanons, are about connecting with a piece of media that means something to you.

So if you headcanon that this character is neurodivergent, then he absolutely qualifies! Go ahead and resubmit him with support and a headcanon and I'll queue the post for you.

Mumble from the Happy Feet movies is autistic.

Marcy from Twins in Paradise has schizophrenia.

Darcy from Twins in Paradise has schizophrenia.

Lain Iwakura from Serial Experiments Lain has Epilepsy, Depression, and Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Support: In the anime, Lain acts differently while in "The Wired" then compared to in reality; A similar thing occurs in a public club-esc place "Cyberia". Lain is told about all the cool things she did while visiting Cyberia a night prior in one episode, but she doesn't understand. She doesn't remember anything about being in Cyberia or the things she allegedly did. Additionally, in another episode, Lain is shown talking to a mirrored version of herself; the only thing different about them is their personalities.

Lain is shown to be incredibly socially withdrawn throughout a majority of the series, which could be easily reminiscent of some types of depressive episodes when you feel as though you can't do anything, let alone socialize.

Additionally, in the game, Lain is seeing a therapist, which shows that she is dealing with something.

Headcanon: Lain has epilepsy; she has scar tissue in her brain but refuses any type of brain surgery to "fix it", as the thought makes her too scared. She primarily has absence seizures and nocturnal seizures when not on medication or when very ill.

She is on a few prescription medications, one type for her Epilepsy and another for her Depressive episodes, prescribed by her therapist for the latter.

Yamcha from Dragon Ball Z is blind in his right eye.

Support: Yamcha has a scar over his right eye.

I'm not sure! Because you're anonymous and we get a lot of submissions, I would need more information before being able to answer!

I am going through the inbox and queuing some posts and I'd like to take this as an opportunity to let people know to keep submitting! Life is crazy, but all us mods really love this blog (as well as our canon sister blog).

Please send us your headcanons either in an ask or a submission and remember to include the character name, the media name, the disability headcanon, your support from canon or your life experience (or if it's just cause you say so, which I high key respect) and any other headcanon bits you want to add!

And then please be patient with us. Research goes into this blog as well as a lot of reformatting. We will get to your submissions, I promise! It just might take some time.

As always, we love you all, and anon - send us another ask with more information and I'll be able to answer you better!

Yes! So sorry, life gets crazy for us mods, but we are still here!

Please continue sending things in, we'll get to them, just give us some time!

You can submit any character from any piece of media of whom you have a headcanon that their disabled!

Please include the name of the character, the source, the disability you headcanon, and any reasons you might have!

Once you send it in, the mods will do some research and make/format the post. Then we'll queue it! (Give us some time please, we'll get to them!!)

If the disability is actually canon, feel free to send it in to our sister blog canon-disabled-characters.tumblr.com

Thanks for submitting, and happy Disability Pride Month!!!

Miss Sculptham from Moral Orel has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Support: In the episode “Alone”, Miss Sculptham is shown flipping the light-switch in her apartment on and off repeatedly as well as locking and unlocking her door before prying herself away from doing so any more. These could be compulsions used to get rid of stress and disturbing obsessions.

Brad Vickers from Resident Evil has Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Survivor’s Guilt, and Depression.

Support: Brad does appear to have some type of anxiety issues, as he was in canon called “chicken heart” by his coworkers for his nervous and flighty behavior.

Headcanons: Brad has severe thantaphobia, which has a hand in making him abandon his team in their helicopter (after Joseph Frost was mauled to death by Cerberus’) due to a extreme fight-or-flight mode, and an overwhelming panic attack. After the events of RE1 and Chief Irons disbanding of the S.T.A.R.S. teams, Brad falls into a deep depression; He feels immense guilt over leaving the others initially at the mansion, and he feels fully responsible for the deaths of his friends who died in Spencer Mansion while trying to find bravo teams’ remaining members (of which there are none).

Tarzan from Walt Disney’s Tarzan (1999) is epileptic!

Support: N/A

Fujiwara no Mokou from Touhou Imperishable Night has PTSD, Phantom Limb Pain, Depression, and Inflammatory Arthritis 

Support: N/A

Headcanons: Fujiwara no Mokou is an immortal being after having drunk the Hourai Elixir around 1300 years prior. Despite having the ability to completely regenerate her body and heal any physical wound, she has near-permanent psychological damage. She fell into a deep depression when her loved ones around her first began to pass away from ailments and old age, where she was able to live on forever. 

After a century, this worry of others she liked dying formed into some post-traumatic stress disorder; Mokou wasn’t able to keep keepsakes that reminded her of her old friends and loved ones and wasn’t able to go back to many familiar places where she once had fond memories, because it made her panic each time. Because of this, she left and lived a life of solitude in Gensokyo in the bamboo forests for a few years before one day, Mokou’s (also immortal) rival, Kaguya Houraisan, showed up in Gensokyo as well. 

From here, she and Kaguya fought and slaughtered one another on a near daily basis for 3 centuries, and while Mokou is able to perfectly regenerate her body and heal herself of (almost) anything, it turns out there are some exceptions. She begins experiencing excruciating phantom limb pain and chronic pain all over her body, pain left over from all those fights she waged against Kaguya. She also develops inflammatory arthritis; It passes every century or so, but comes back like a vicious cycle to the point where most days, she opts to stay in bed even though that hurts as well.

Always!