Autistic!Who

Of course they feature autistic headcanons and shipping shenanigans. There’s a lot of 12 because he’s my Doctor.

Anything rated higher than T contains NSFW content (sex scenes) and I maintained my old habit of having trigger warnings in the author’s notes in case I forgot tags, so be sure to check both in case one has something I missed.

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Soooo the season finale of Doctor Who took my autistic Time Lords headcanon, snogged it to death and threw it into space.

OF COURSE.

It makes even more sense for all Time Lords to be autistic if the original model is autistic!

The autistic community showing up to call them out on their lies and ableism:

All the NuWho incarnations in one place. Not my video.

The Tenth Doctor from Doctor Who is an Autistic Character

- Good at Masking his Autistic traits, they come out most when he’s excited or frustrated

- He’s a good mimic and can change his accent

- he is very blunt when talking to people, doesn’t mean to be rude

- doesn’t always know he’s being rude. He asks others if he’s being rude

- he has exaggerated facial expressions

- He’s highly intelligent but sometimes slow to comprehend (I’m pretty boy?, I’m the expert?)

- doesn’t control the volume of his voice well, will suddenly be shouting

- Info dumps: ‘I talk too much that’s my problem’ and he will talk ‘90 miles per hour’ and expect others to keep up

- echolalia: has phrases he likes to repeat like ‘allons-y’, he enjoys saying words that rhyme or are alliterative. Starts quoting the lion king to make a point.

- same food: bananas, he certainly talks about them a lot maybe he eats them a lot too

-sensory things: prefers to wear sneakers/sand shoes possibly for sensory reasons. Wears suits but rarely has the shirt button all the way up and wears the tie loose. Likes tight clothing but not around his neck. Licks things. Sensory seeking

- Stimming: Ten will bounce on his toes and rock back on his heels, he’s said to ‘stroke bits of the Tardis,’ likes running and jumping on things, will suddenly take off running, likes to toss and catch things like his sonic, pressure Stims by wearing a heavy overcoat and putting His hands in his pockets, will tug on/ruffle his hair and rub/pull on his ear

Yaz, Graham and Ryan are together in the TARDIS with the Doctor.

The Doctor unusually quiet, she’s tense, has her mouth pursed tight in a line and squints while she works the controls. Then she stops and it’s like her whole body clenches.

All of a sudden Yaz, Graham and Ryan feel a weird tension. Their thoughts start racing like they’re in a blender. There is a lot of uncomfortable squirming and fidgeting.

Somebody says something that gets taken wrong and there is a bit of an argument. Graham gets them to shut up for a minute. They stop and ask why they’re arguing and if everybody else feels that weird pit in their stomach.

They start pacing, taking deep breaths and Ryan turns his back to wipe some tears away. Then they argue again. They can’t agree on what to do about the weird feeling. Yaz asks the Doctor, but there’s no response. The arguing resumes again.

Finally, the Doctor uncharacteristically shouts at them to be quiet and tangles her fingers in her hair. She stays that way for a moment and at last she relaxes. So does everybody else.

The Doctor was having a meltdown and accidentally broadcast it to everybody nearby via telepathy, so her companions caught some of it. Not all of it; they couldn’t handle a full blast.

She apologizes without explaining what happened, saying she’s tired instead.

They are left to wonder.

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Using this gif without context isn’t a spoiler since you don’t see what she’s reacting to. 😎

The Time Vortex sweeps up an autistic girl’s Wile E. Coyote plush comfort item. Luckily, the Doctor is there to save the day! But why did the Time Vortex snatch Wile E. in the first place, and what does it have to do with resisting Autism Speaks?

* * Video has closed captions. * * * * * TW for hinting at eugenics. * * * * * * * VOLUME WARNING AT THE END CREDITS * * * *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ1qLGIIgRY

I didn’t take myself too seriously even though it looks it in some scenes. I melted down for real in one of the shots I used for the meltdown montage…I won’t tell you which one it is. I got too worked up just *imagining* losing Wile E. like that. It’s there to make fun of how Autism Speaks wants you to think being autistic is living meltdown to meltdown, but it also (literally and figuratively) highlights the importance of a comfort item to the autistic person.

I had fun being hammy. :)