Treat! Disney Coloring World Kermit and Miss Piggy coloring page!

Overwhelmed it!

Tortus stood in the doorway, unsure of how to really react. Out of anything he expected, this certainly wasn’t one. He looked around him, the more he looked, the more flowers he saw scattered about. Flowers every other step. His brows furrowed as he looked on in confusion and frustration. At least, he did until he heard the stifled giggling. 

MAN I always attributed ADHD to the DOCTOR, like ALWAYS.  The Doctor has bouts of depression, is effusively creative and energetic and often negotiates conflicting, multifarious trains of thought at once, to the point that sometimes it impedes their ability to concentrate or even speak.  The Doctor’s tendency to “run,” to avoid restraint, structure, and conflict, is further a “symptom” of this disorder, one that impacted academic performance as well as their major relationships (including with, yes, the Master) as people misapprehend the symptoms as an unwillingness to commit or become emotionally attached…when really, maybe it’s an actual inability.  Bouts of hyperactivity, special interests and infodumping, and hyperfocus definitely also occur.   And I’ve noticed little physical tics that could be read as “stimming.” 

I think the Master’s neurodivergency is more along the autism spectrum and the “personality disorder” spectrum.   I specifically write them with Borderline Personality Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder, and, unrelated to these dimensions of neurodivergency, PTSD.   Nevertheless I can also see where you’re coming from here: the hyperfixation element is definitely there, and the tendency to become overstimulated (one of the reasons why the “Drums” had such a pervasively negative effect: there is a constant loud noise in the Master’s personal environment).  I just always read that as autism because of the high AND low empathy element (which can be traits of being on the spectrum) and the disinterest, or more accurately, inability, to read the emotions of others and respond appropriately–which also plays into the BPD, with the rejection-sensitivity and unstable sense of personal boundaries, and black-and-white thinking about the object of affection (the Doctor).  

However you slice it, I think it is REALLY important to make room for neurodivergent headcanons for both the Doctor and Master, both because of the prevalence of canonical evidence, and the prevalence of fans who are themselves neurodivergent.  

The Mouse King gets rid of her. And I’m still trying to figure out the disappearing of the nutcrackers in detail.