#autistic todoroki

-Obsessed with the Percy Jackson books

~Has C-PTSD and anxiety.

~Best friends with Momoyao. They've known each other since childhood.

~Gay. Just. Yes.

~He and Momo do cosplay together, but it's always genderbent. Momo dresses as a boy and Shoto as a girl. They have a secret TikTok account where they post the cosplay.

~Straight A student, but doesn't put much effort into studying. Favorite subject is Language.

~His favorite sibling is Fuyumi because she always tried to take care of him.

~Is an alright cook. He enjoys it but isn't the best.

~Likes to dance (TikTok trends and hip hop mostly) and has a good singing voice, but will never show this to his classmates.

Let me explain a little bit I got a small list of things that can tend to be autistic traits that shoto has from the top of my head-

Safe food- cold soba

Hard time understanding social cues

Tends to not be very expressive when it comes to voice or facial expression

Not the best with teamwork

The first time he kisses someone he likes, he stims for a solid minute afterwards. Just pacing the room and flicking his hands back and forth

He had to mask a lot growing up, so it's hard for him to feel comfortable enough to let his guard down. Once he is though, it's infodump time

He and deku have entire conversations that are just taking turns infodumping and getting caught in stim cycles

He likes it when cats sleep on his chest, because the warmth and weight is grounding

He has a lot of trouble picking up on social cues, so he'll often subtly text iida if he's confused during an interaction.

He's perpetually trapped between disliking physical touch and being extremely touch-starved

He settles for leaning against his friends shoulders

He enjoys hanging out with Bakugo cos his expressions are so dramatically over the top and easy to read. Bakugo also shouts at people if they make eye-contact, which shoto enjoys.

This is kind of unrelated but I just had the mental image of him picking some grass out of the ground and putting it on Uraraka's head and I just. Happy.

He definitely did not hyperfixate on finding out the connection between Izuku and All Might for a month. Absolutely not. Nope. Nuh-uh. Not this man.

Children confuse him but he likes how blunt they are

He was definitely a "why?" kid (At least before the ✨trauma✨)

His morning routine is sacred. Please do not distract him while he's brushing his hair.

Japanese architecture is one of his special interests

His friends surprised him with a tour of a traditional japanese village for his birthday one year, it was the most any of them have ever seen him smile

I think if he was allowed to be a normal kid, he would've had a rock collection

100% a fingernail biter.

Probably dissociates when people raise their voice. Partially cos of trauma, partially cos of sensory overload.

Him and Hatsume spent a solid two weeks trying to find a fabric for his hero costume that didn't bug him. It was an extremely intense period of correspondence.

Iida: shoto, if you ever need help figuring the tone of hatsume's texts, just let me know

Todoroki: no thank you it's fine, she talks like normal.

Iida: oh okay... I can't help but notice you're glaring at your phone though...

Todoroki: *wrinkling his nose* she just suggested a half-cotton blend-

thanks anon! I'm glad u liked my rambling lmfaoo I'm totes down to expand on my thoughts but I do just wanna say before I start that I'm not autistic so if any autistic peeps have an issues or corrections with things I say please do not hesitate to jump in. my understanding of autism comes from research and talking with my wife and friends who are on the spectrum about their experiences and views, so I am certain there will be places where it is lacking and i welcome corrections

but okay so my autistic izu and todo headcanons!

so I touched on izukus hero hyperfixations and the singular focused way izuku interacts with his interests and his high intensity but in expanding on that, izuku is highly emotional, his feelings come on strong and he allows himself to fully experience and be taken over by them when they happen. he's emotionally impulsive and hyperaroused, which I love because its what makes him so earnest (and the reason why bakugou who is so emotionally stunted and guarded and has no idea what genuine motives are and assumes everyone has an ulterior motive, has such a hard time dealing with and understanding him) and those are big adhd and autistic traits.

i also headcanon that Izuku loves to stim in really physical and active ways cause adhd gives him enough energy to rival the sun and its gotta go somewhere (in canon we see this as izuku figeting snd always exercising) because Inko is best mom she always accepted Izuku and encouraged his stimming. he's got tons of fidgets and stim toys that he keeps everywhere. in his pencil case, desk, backpack, even in some of the pockets of his hero costume for when there's really slow patrols. Izuku strikes me as a chewer so id say most of his stim toys are chewables. just something to occupy his mouth when he gets really in the zone so he doesn't keep muttering or start bouncing his leg during class or when they're in group study sessions

as for todoroki I think he has a much more stunted presentation because of his abuse, also the lack of adhd. todorokis autism is less excitable and fixated, and much more muted and internalized. todoroki is so shut off and disconnected from himself and his emotions because of his abuse and thus really doesn't know how to identify these feelings. he just knows he struggles to fit in and connect and understand the social nuances of his friends. a lot of autistic people when faced with abuse check out. they cut themselves off from their feelings and their emotions and learn how to suppress everything in order to not become overwhelmed by negative feelings.

he takes everything at face value and doesn't understand how to conceptualize ulterior motives like that. he doesn't think beyond the surface emotions of other people because he has zero frame of reference. where izuku is hyperempathic becsuse he feels his emotions so strongly and is therefore very self aware of them, todoroki is just lost. hes never experienced those emotions so he can't even conceptualize that they exist in himself or others so he doesn't recognize them. or when he does, he has no idea how to handle them. we see him recognize when iida or bakugou are in dark places and his want to be there for them or get close to them to help, but he has no idea where to even begin.

which I think is a big reason he's so drawn to izuku. he and todoroki are on opposite ends of the spectrum and I think todoroki desperately wants the ease of understanding and emotional honestly that izuku has and is trying really hard to let himself open up more.

okay I'm gonna end it there cause this is getting so long lmfaoo but thanks again for letting me ramble anon and feel free to come back anytime