minimum wage on maximum rage

Will I be in there for five minutes? Five hours?

What's next? Do they not have bunnings? Woolies? FAIRY BREAD? TIM TAMS?

Pls tell me I’m not the only one feeling like that

Nah im missing the peak content 😭

IM CTFUU HES HILARIOUS

✨️keeping up with the Hamiltons✨️

Physical Quirks ❖ Cracks their knuckles when thinking. ❖ Tilts their head too far when listening, like a curious bird. ❖ Always rolls up their sleeves; even when it’s freezing. ❖ Bites the inside of their cheek instead of nails. ❖ Writes with their non-dominant hand for notes/doodles. ❖ Compulsively counts stairs, tiles, or ceiling beams. ❖ Uses hand gestures way too big for the conversation. ❖ Stares just past someone’s shoulder instead of at their face. ❖ Always needs to fiddle with coins, rings, or a pen cap.

Speech/Language Quirks ❖ Uses outdated slang like it never went out of style. ❖ Slips into another language for swears or exclamations. ❖ Repeats the last word of someone else’s sentence under their breath. ❖ Adds a little whistle or hum between phrases. ❖ Ends most sentences as questions, even when they’re not. ❖ Misquotes famous sayings but insists they’re right. ❖ Can’t resist giving everything and everyone a nickname. ❖ Stutters only on words starting with the same letter as their name.

Behavioral Quirks ❖ Always chooses the same seat in any room. ❖ Eats one food at a time, in strict order, never mixing. ❖ Picks up random objects (salt shakers, paperclips) and rearranges them neatly. ❖ Never steps on cracks, lines, or patterned tiles. ❖ Hoards receipts, tickets, or fortunes from cookies. ❖ Stares at light bulbs until their eyes water. ❖ Reads the last page of a book first. ❖ Never finishes a drink—always leaves the last sip.

Psychological/Emotional Quirks ❖ Laughs during tense or uncomfortable silences. ❖ Refuses to say “goodbye”—always changes it to “see you.” ❖ Finds comfort in exact routines (same breakfast, same route). ❖ Talks to inanimate objects as though they’ll answer. ❖ Gets unreasonably angry at minor inconveniences (a pen running out, a sock slipping). ❖ Collects bizarre little “lucky” items like bottle caps or broken charms. ❖ Panics if they don’t have something in their hands. ❖ Over-apologizes, even when clearly not at fault.

EDIT: Before you share this saying 'oh this is just a list of things neurodivergent/autistic people do' let me stop you right here.

Context exists.

Check out this other post 👉 ☕️ Character Quirks (Now with Context, Since Apparently We Needed That)

I have ADHD. My brother’s autistic. I fucking get it. But as a writer—and as a human—I also know that half the things y’all are labeling “neurodivergent traits” are just people being people. One behavior can wear a hundred different reasons. That’s called context, not coding.

1. Silence > Scream ❖ Don’t let anyone shout “NOOO!” like it’s a bad soap opera. ❖ The gut-punch comes from stillness. A friend realizing the body isn’t moving. A hand slipping from theirs. A breath that doesn’t come back. ❖ Example: “He waited for the next rise of her chest. It never came.”

2. Subtle Details, Not Monologues ❖ Avoid characters delivering five-minute speeches about how much the dead one meant. That’s cheese-drenched exposition. ❖ Instead: show someone trying to tie their shoes with shaking hands. Or refusing to leave the body. Or pocketing some tiny keepsake.

3. Physicality Over Words ❖ Grief is ugly in the body before it’s in the mouth. ❖ Numb fingers. Stomach drop. Knees buckling against a wall. ❖ The best line might be no line at all—just the sound of someone struggling to breathe.

4. Aftermath, Not Just Death ❖ Don’t zoom out as soon as the heart monitor flatlines. The power is in the next five minutes. ❖ How do the survivors react differently? The sarcastic one goes silent. The stoic one cracks. The optimist starts cleaning blood off their hands like if they scrub hard enough, it won’t be real.

5. Tone, Not Tropes ❖ Kill cliché phrases: “Don’t leave me,” “Stay with me,” “No, God please no!” ❖ Replace with something raw and specific: - “You were supposed to outlive us all, you stubborn bastard.” - “Don’t you dare make me the one to tell her.”