#i'm losing

scisaac height dif was crazy bc isaac's a good half-head taller (at least) but he doesn't look it because he's always slouching and slumping and ducking his head like the four inches of height between them is simply too much to bear

i do love how observant/perceptive/locked in, if you will, newt is throughout the series. gonna talk more about the books here btw. in the first book, he catches on quick (and often first) to pretty much all of thomas' ideas, be that the sacrifice plan, the scissors and the paper, or when thomas wakes up after being stung and newt says he knows why he did it. and knowing when to jump in when alby’s introducing thomas to the glade, or when to back down during gatherings when he’s made too many jibes at gally — he’s good at reading the room or recognising when he’s perhaps gone too far (i swear that interaction w/ gally happens, i don’t remember very well whoops). in the scorch trials, he's instantly locked in — part of his second line is literally, "we need to [...], have a gathering." he questions aris intently, defers the leadership role to minho because he thinks he'll work better, applies the logic of the glade to the new scenario in an attempt to make sense of it. he's perceptive when he catches on to thomas not wanting to talk anymore, and says he'll leave him alone — thomas didn’t express wanting to be left alone, he kept talking to newt actually, but newt caught on anyway. he's often the one to break thomas out of his thoughts, or to notice that he isn't okay (there’s i think a few instances of this in tfc & tmr/tst whenever thomas is weirded out by teresa/aris talking in his head). and he remembered where the light switches were in the dark, heard the metal-ball-that's-actually-someone's-head and where it rolled to, once again in pitch black. and in the death cure, he's the one that picked up on the dust patterns in the weapon storage room. also, the fact that he leaves the storage room and finds paper and a pen with ease to write his note implies that he probably noticed it on the way, or otherwise found it incredibly quickly. he also clocks a beetle blade that is watching them — "that beetle blade's watching every bloody thing we do." and, mind you, he was flaring up in the last 3 instances. and in the final fight with thomas, he catches on to thomas reaching for the gun (i think? my memory of this is honestly quite hazy). and then just all the stuff i’ve said before about him seeming to have a very quick reaction speed (and an addition to it, him instantly bursting into the room in tmr when alby started strangling himself, although i do believe he was probably just waiting right outside the door anyway) all adds to how locked in he is. also his consistent questioning of authority (i have zero recollection of what he says, i just know he does) also demonstrates his natural suspicion & how he’s reading into what they’re saying, what they’re missing out/glossing over, etc. this man is so locked in.

who would win in a fight between an autistic person and 12 neurotypical adults. find out today at "shift at my normal job"