neurodivergent turtles!

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The twins still like Halloween but they're not *as* enthusiastic about it. They do like seeing Raph finally being carefree, letting himself act like a teenager for once. Out of the whole night that's both of their favorite part.

And Splinter will grump about being dragged around NY in a cheap costume but he really loves the tradition and wouldn't change it for anything.

Basically Halloween is a very good time of year for them all.

anon I LOVE your thinking.

and occasionally someone will come up to the four of them and go “why are you guys dressed up as turtles AND __” In which Donnie will almost reply that they’re not costumes before one of the other brothers stops him and makes something up.

leonardo has dyspraxia. 

its mainly self projection and i take small details and absolutely run with them. like 2012 leo messes up on his speech sometimes or stumbles over his words, i take that and run.

but 2018 leonardo, hoho. he does that AND stumbles/falls a lot. i’d like to think he took longer than the others to form words and actually speak in full-coherent sentences. so his vocabulary wouldn’t be that large, but mostly because sounding out words is difficult for him.