Feel free to reply your favorite head canons. Explaination optional

Spider-Man is autistic, Peter Parker is good-natured, socially awkward, was bullied by Flash for not understanding social interactions, has special interests in science and crime-fighting, stims by spinning webs or modifying his mechanical web shooters, etc, and has Spider Sense as well as sensory processing disorder (extra-sensory sensitive). He was born undiagnosed Autistic and his powers (bitten by radioactive spider) don’t have any connection to his autism bc autism is genetic. He’s self-diagnosed and out to only Mary Jane and his other loved ones who know his secret identity too.

1. Parker (Leverage) This one’s pretty much canon anyway, yo 

2. The Baudelaire Siblings (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Literally all three of them, they’re all autistic, I mean, have you watched this show?

3. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) Even her actress says she’s down with this reading of her, so

4. Will Graham (Hannibal) He even says, in S1 E1 that his ‘wagon is hitched closer to autism and aspergers’ etc 

5. Elle Woods (Legally Blonde) Just because she’s feminine doesn’t mean she isn’t

6. Kieth Kogane (Voltron: Legendary Defenders) SI’s and social difficulties? Yupp 

7. Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)  I will literally fight you over this one, I mean seriously

8. Wilson Fisk (Daredevil - Netflix) Yeah, even bad guys can be autistic, we’re complicated like that 

9. Onion (Steven Universe) I mean, this one is canon too 

10. Tony Stark (MCU) We come in all flavours, including extroverted loners! 

11. Drax (MCU) Another one who’s actor is down with this interpretation 

12. Captain Carrot Ironfounderson (Disworld) He gets called ‘simple’ a lot in canon, but y’know what, Autism 

13. Dr ‘Bones’ McCoy (Star Trek - alternative modern films) Verbal stims verbal stim verbal stims 

14. Newt Scamander (Fantastic Beasts) I CAN’T BELIEVE I NEARLY FORGOT THIS ONE 

Yeah I’m gonna do another one of these, why not?

Hermione Granger from Harry Potter is both born Autistic and a witch, her special interests are books, she has NT muggle parents, she’s self-diagnosed because in the 90’s, people didn’t know much about autism and didn’t know women can be autistic too. Hermione is socially awkward as she spoke overly formally at 11 yrs old in the first movie and book and tended to frustrate Harry and Ron upon their first meeting, but she does have empathy, hence her being Gryffindor and being friends with Harry, and is she’s somewhat socially aware.

She’s brilliant at being a witch and often helps save the day, she stims by practicing her favorite spells, reading, petting her cat Crookshanks etc. She also likes deep pressure hugs and also the whole magic people v muggles can be somewhat analogous for neurodivergence, since neurodivergent wizards and witches have to suppress their magical selves and pass as NT muggles. What’s your favorite head canon? What’s your Patronus? Who should I head canon next? Like and Reblog your response for more things fun and Neurodiversity related, much love:)

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