Autistic Tenno

The tragedy is: Jayce did, in fact, understand.

Viktor just lost himself to the hexcore in the process.

(sorry i had to delete the original and repost it right after publishing it because for some reason tumblr put the readmore IN THE ASK? like how does that happen.)

thank you for asking this. i am now going to write an essay on why aizawa is autistic. you did not ask for this but i am going to do it anyways. i also have sources.

i honestly do think aizawa is autistic. i don’t know if this is intentional. i don’t know if this is the author thinking “i need someone who is seen as very strange in everything he does except to the people who understand him” and then modeled him after those behaviors that he’s seen before. i don’t know. but there’s not a lot of headcanons i believe with 100% certainty except for this one.

obviously, any character can (and should!) be headcanoned as autistic. you do not need proof. headcanon whoever you want as autistic, as long as you’re not stereotyping us.

as an autistic person, though, every. single. thing. about aizawa can be read as autistic. every trait. every behavior. every interaction. everything.

autism presents in three main areas:

Social interactions

Verbal and nonverbal communication

Repetitive or ritualistic behaviors

aizawa has behaviors that canonically present in each of these categories. let’s take a look at each one more in depth by breaking it down. please keep in mind that i am both autistic myself and someone who went to school for psychology.

i’ll be talking about

Appearance/Presentation (including clothing and samefooding)

Emotions (including facial expressions and emotional intelligence)

Logic (and sometimes emotion)

Special interest

welcome to my 2,500 word essay on why aizawa shouta is autistic, i hope you enjoy it as much as i fucking enjoyed writing it.

if you’re white and are protesting, please, please listen to this. if you’re white and have white friends protesting, let them know