#nd dsmp

Op is neurodivergent btw

Okay so, the “basics” is, C!Technoblade is autistic and/or has ADHD, C!Ranboo is autistic, C!Niki has ADHD, and Phil has ADHD. (Or you could see him as that one cool neurotypical friend. Doesn’t matter how you read it tbh)

Philza makes everyone stim toys occasionally, Ranboo and Techno mostly frequently request them. Nihachu does make some from time to time!! But just not as often as Phil.

Nihachu makes sure that the textures in her baking/pastries are something that everyone can enjoy. (Personally, weird textures in food make me feel all icky.)

Techno and Ranboo tend to go nonverbal at times, or semi-verbal. So they all make up some hand gestures that mean like, “uncomfy” “yes” “no” “tired” “food?” Etc! Most of the time Ranboo writes what he wants to say in flash cards though, so typically Techno uses the little signals they made up.

Ranboo tends to stim with his tail by moving it around, but he also does flappy hands a lot! And the little pop cat noise whenever he vocally stims.

Techno tends to stim with his fidget/stim toys that he gets from Phil. They’re either made of gold or silver (or just look one of the two colors.) He does have an echolalia stim, and sometimes him and Nihachu will repeat the same things back to each other.

“I was going to bake some red velvet cake, actually!” “Red Velvet cake?” “Mhm! Red velvet cake” “red velvet cake” “red velvet cake!” “Cake” “cake!” “Cake!!!” “Cake!!”

Niki tends to stim by jumping, skipping, hand flapping, etc! Those are just her more frequent ones! Usually when baking she stims a lot, especially if she’s learned a new recipe!

if poeople acknowledged he's autistic-coded. like, extremely autistic coded.

he genuiely doesn't get social cues nor social/man-made concepts like wars, or nations. he has very good, while also sensitive and very selective hearing, he also can't listen while many people are talking at the same time (this point's from before tommy era).

he wears sunglasses all the time, so we can assume he's sensitive to light (he only took them off like twice and it was always when he was inside). he also has pretty poor volume control (which isn't bad nor good, just neurodiverse), and he goes from 0 to 100 with his emotions really quickly.

he also doesn't say "i love you" and expresses love differently than one would expect ("do you want me to kill him for you?" or helping bad find his stuff while saying "your stuff's gone by now"). he's also pretty unempathetic (not to be confused with uncompassionate, cus he has a lot of compassion, surprisingly), as shown in quackity lore ep.2 where he doesn't get why quackity feels bad about the kinoko kingdom, but still inviting him to visit. he also repeats certain phrases instead of furthering his point (the dethroning scene). he's also really blunt and sharp in general.

he's simply neurodivergent, like that's a core part of his character.

and you can see the coding the clearest with how fanon villainizes and infantilizes him at the same time (and manages to sexualize him some more)

hi! yeah, it really is a shame people dont acknowledge how neurodivergent the entire dream team is, so.. have some nd! dream team headcanons >:)))

george likes pressure, so when the trio would cuddle theyd always stack on each other with george in the middle

sapnap has no volume control. hes either mumbling or yelling in the overworld, while.in the nether he always yells but its neuters itself cus of how loud the nether is

george stimms by eating!! its usually bread. bread is good.

so dream and george have matching diamond jewelry (george's earrings and dreams choker) and when theyre away from each other they switch it, so you can always tell cus george always holds the diamond charm while dream tugs at the earrings.

bad has really long hair (i swear if i see a single bald joke i will eat yalls kneecaps- /hj) and he usually keeps them up in braids so they sway behind him and when he walks a certain way they rhytmically sway behind him and its a great stim. it also works with ponytails of any kind

this is unrelated to the headcanons but i am filled with so much rage i want to scream (/pos??? certainly not /neg) cus im listening to the tree on the hill from the lightning thief. i have no idea why this song fills me with so much emotions but if anyone would like a headcanon thread on my pjo au centered around dream team please tell me i want to talk.about them so badly please im beg- (/lh)

dream and george rocky cuddle :)

ad to the previous point: i dont know if its the actual name, but im talking about where they hug and rock together

george always makes sure to kick sapnap when he unironically calls himself dumb (dont call yourself dumb kids, it ruins your god complex- /hj)

george cant decode emotions from faces only, except when it comes to a) dream and sapnap (he can tell a big portion of them) b) when its pain on one of the hunters faces

george doesnt understand the concept of gender. like yknow the "what are your pronouns, knuckles?" comic?? yeah, thats george.

sometimes the team will ask george to call them something completely different like "capybara" or "epiphany" and george will just switch without missing a beat. they also experiment with pronouns with george cus hell call you "ketchup" without finding it weird

sword fighting is one of sapnap's special interest :)

both sapnap and george are semi-verbal

georges special interests include but arent limited to: fungi, tea, knive combat, archery

george and sapnap will stay up all night to let sapnap talk his heart out

ok so i headcanon that dsmp! rat is actually like a tamed wolf instead of a small dog, and shes bads service dog

sapnap grew up without knowing human western concept of gender exists cus bad forgot it existed and so did skeppy

anyway theyre all neurodivergent, queer and trans, cus i make the fucking rules :)