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caduceus is autistic evidence post :-)

*not an actual theory post, jus headcanons based on canon scenes + some extra thoughts too just kidding im right

Monotone voice, basically never shouts.. like when he said “i dont mean to raise my voice” after speaking at the exact same level consistently..

Kinda talks in a mumbly way and stutters a lot

The way he very often has a very blank, kinda-smiling expression when people are talking to him.. audio processing face

Doesn’t get a lot of jokes, or when he’s being flirted with. also the jokes he does get (and find very funny) are usually very specific (and about death probably, which weirds out tmn a bit lol) or he has to process them for a moment before understanding, which has happened a lot.. he’s like :-3? …. :-0 oh :-D !

Also, a few times he has laughed at odd/inappropriate times. kinda just at nothing or something no one else was laughing at. which is apparenlty quite common for autistic folks to do, bc of like getting a bit lost in ur own thoughts and think of funny things etc…..

Sorta related (to jokes, and things), but he takes so many things literally. like that time when beau jokingly asked if he’d ever met a ghost that didn’t need punching and he thought about it until he had an answer :’). and also when beau said to fjord (about cad) “like, he was living in the middle of the cemetery” and cad was like “Of course i was, thats where the temple is, the middle of the cemetery”. 

He notices EVERYTHING… all these tiny details and noises no one else hears… this happens to me and so i have decided to project this onto cads super high perception. 

In Darktow he had to leave that tavern/bar because it got too loud for him and he got stressed n went and sat outside until fjord came looking for him. (also the “lets keep this.. between the amigos” “which part of the body is the amigos?” thing jksnfkjs)

Also that one time in Rexxentrum that he had a bad perception roll? matt described the city and all the colours and shapes being too overwhelming (to the point of almost vertigo) to think clearly and spot where they needed to go.

He says the same phrases A Lot. (which i have recently found out is called Scripting, and applies to a bunch of things.. mostly used by autistic folks to get through conversations.) “that’s nice”,“thats really nice”, “thats so cool”. “that was a lot” are th most common ones i think. he uses them in some instances that are very high emotion too. like, he’ll almost die and then say “wow… that was. that was a lot.” 

Also repeats back new phrases or words he likes (“worth their salt” and “fracas”) ..the echolalia of it all. 

also a moment in the pirate arc where he uses the word “astute” while talking to beau before admitting that he heard someone else say it and is just copying someone and trying to use it too. luckily he used it correctly (and then him and beau both awkwardly run off to do their own things).

Struggles to express emotions outwardly.. for example: he just repeats “thats nice” etc. about everything he likes and loves. the mushroom cookbook jester gives him for example. also he barely makes eye contact with her in that scene and doesnt rly know what to do or say because mushroom! cookbook! thats so nice :’)

and also! he doesn’t rly express when he’s uncomfortable, even when he is Deeply deeply uncomfortable, like in the arboretum. He just quietly said they needed to get out, put his head down and didn’t look at the trees, even though he was visibly super shaken. just had to get out of there. (this was of course partly some kind of trauma response too, but it also read as very nd to me)

Also him having a panic attack on the boat, when his entire world view got thrown off.. i choose to think its bc autistic folks tend to think rly black-and-white, rly absolute, a lot of the time. so in this case its “following the destined path of the wildmother” vs “completely off-track and all a huge mistake and should never have left home and its all gone wrong”

Also i think he finds sudden changes scary. he was super shaken about the nein just stealing a whole boat unplanned…and other things similarly unplanned. idk it just had the vibes of if someone took away your routine and everything familiar… and you’re just like free-floating. its hard to function like that 

Also related to that… doesnt like when there isn’t a plan n gets stressed about it. also often the first person to ask the nein to clarify exactly what they’re all going to do/make a plan. (first thing he asks jester when she comforts him on the boat is “miss jester, do you have a plan?” and she doesn’t and never has.. he doesnt really get that vry much

He really struggles to explain things that are upsetting to him. tries to speak but can only get th same few words out. yea ik he is super emotionally repressed but i am also looking autistically. 

He doesn’t really understand if people are insulting him. like king dwendal and also eadwulf both said rude things to him and he just replied as polite as he could even tho he was confused.

Cant help himself, gotta correct people about things he knows more about (special interest energy….). like when beau called his graveyard a cemetery and he corrected and explained the difference :’ )

the way he re-explains how his tea grows when its mentioned too. and that he’s a maker of fine graves and the work his family does. its like his wee script every single time . he rly cares abt it

Also just his particular brand of strange just reads very autisticly to me. (even his own family think he’s odd. sidenote: clarabelle is autistic too bc i say so.) the way he says odd little phrases that don’t quite make sense and things to plants. the way he says what he thinks, to the point of being rude and blunt and invasive sometimes. the way he doesnt give a shit and just wears what he likes. idk :’) makes me happy.

Oh, and relating to him being blunt. I think that a few scenes when he’s said questionable things or given questionable advice is emblematic of that… he says a literal solution. or a solution that makes sense (to his worldview.. faith the the wildmother) and is technically an option, but he doesn’t quite understand the emotional side of why someone does something, or doesn’t do it.

He’s good at fitting into EMT or wise-old-sage mode and outside of that he’s just, kind of awkward and spacey (and silly). like, when his script or role is taken away he tends to flounder a bit. or a lot, sometimes. and just says stuff and seems just as baffled abt what he said too.

Said bluntness and inability to see when his advice is appropriate or not also means that sometimes he is just rude.. he does'nt mean to be but he sometimes oversteps or is just vry blunt in a way that offends people, and doesn’t seem to entirely realise either

Just some headcanons but. i think he special interests tea, cooking, and all things surrounding death/burial… he always has things to say about those topics and i think thats neat.

he’s so tired a lot of the time, he says it kind of often . which, disability coded to meee. other things but i think also his brain hurts from everything all the time. adjusting . noise. adjusting.

i just know he loves ritual. in making tea, in cooking, in religion and prayer, in gardening, in communing etc etc etc

And lastly, he pat the moss. because :-) stimmy

I ran into a friendly traveler on my way

With the Mighty Nein animated series being in the works, there’s one thing I’m really hoping for and I don’t know if it’ll happen.

I want the little details of Caleb casting spells to be there, like how Liam describes the components and how he uses them. I would love it if we just had a zoomed in shot of him grabbing stuff out of his pouch and smooshing it together and then BOOM ✨magic✨

Because I swear Liam does it almost every time while everyone else is just like ‘imma cast this at this level’ so it would be so funny if everyone else casting spells was (unless it was a big moment) to just be BAM ✨magic✨

THIS ABSOLUTELY THIS MY GOD. I love that he goes from a stray starved cat to a happy fat old indoor cat

moar fat caleb. he has tried every single kind of soup that the kryn has to offer. by the time jester and fjord have a kid he's very solidly the picture of kindly uncle. he goes shopping in zadash and someone briefly mistakes him for another pumat clone.

i love the fat caleb agenda so much. the idea hes so big that even pumat would see him and make jokes that they're the same size? thats one big ginger wizard especially one who's human and started out starving! i said it in the last fat caleb ask but he would truly thrive as the professor stereotype that involves sweet middle aged men that do Not remotely fit into the tweed jackets they wear to their classes, but somehow it stays on anyway. he gets home and essek rushes to take it off him to admire him with that soft purple gaze.

IM SO HAPPY RN LIKE HOLY WOW THIS IS GIVING ME SO MUCH JOY I ALSO FEEL LIKE GREG AND SNUFKIN WOULD BE MILD CHAOS BUDDIES

i need snufkin and wirt to have a crossover episode

"don't worry about how other people perceive you" okay but like how they treat me is frequently determined by how they perceive me and I would prefer people be niceys to me

last one for them

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I just finished the first season of gravity falls and HOLY SHIT ITS GOOD LIKE I KNEW IT WOULD BE BUT HOLY WOW

I’ll probably talk about it more in the morning but it’s almost midnight lol

OKAY SO ITS MORNING NOW >:))

Soos is already my favourite character because he’s just like me fr fr

Mabel and Stan have such a chaotic and beautiful dynamic even when their beefing but in saying that man Mabel was on her ‘lying is bad’ high horse for a little bit longer than I thought she would but it’s kinda fun watching her change to ‘I’ve been cheating for the last three rounds’

I found it so funny just how often dipper would whip out the book at any sign of an oddity and with little to no regard about who really saw it

Here’s that part 2 of my Moominvalley season 3 ramble? That I promised!! A couple of days ago but shhhhhhhh

Moominpapa really was just trying to see if he could get away with murder, while also looking for a possible business opportunity and honestly? Respect the hustle.

I also love that Cedric is from Ms.Fillyjonk and it also gives a timeline to Melody of Moominvalley, I’m sure I’m probably late to realising that it’s a post season game but shhhh

Oh my god they’ve got some pipes and the whole musical number was really sweet, I really have grown to like Ms.Fillyjonk and I want that song either extended or put on Spotify but I kinda want both, as a little treat >:))

I’m glad that once again Moomin is trying to learn boundaries with Snufkin it’s kinda fair that he is trying to not be in Snufkins space too much and help out where he can but simultaneously god damn poor Snufkin he’s just trying to chill and check on toofle and BOOM EMPLOYENT.

I did love him and the Hemulens dynamic that episode it was so sweet how much they both cared about the children at the park, also once again didn’t realise that pretty much all the employed people of Moominvalley are Hemulens. That kinda cool because like they don’t really have a finical system or at least one that’s necessary, so they can literally just have whatever job they want and I’m kinda jealous.

Also it seems my boyfriend is actually enjoying it quite a bit and might actually watch the full thing!! And he immediately noticed that something was off about the hattifattner and I was so happy about that.

“I don’t know the meaning of the word”

Without missing a beat they said.

“Oh trust me. We know.”

“You didn’t give up on your dream, you just shelved it”

Cue us both looking at each other and laughing our asses off, it’s super fun watching it with someone else!!

Snufkin made his one on screen appearance in Moominmama’s dream and we were both ready for him to be halfway down the beach, like he did last time he talked to Moominmama god it was hilarious. If I ever figure out how to make a gif I promise ill add it here

I’m so proud of myself for the timing of us watching the last episode, we watched it the day of the eclipse happened and shockingly Sniff was the only one smart enough to wear sunglasses.

I also loved that Snorkmaiden was going to be the one who did the midsummers spell (I know it was with Moomintroll too but shh) and ended up also showing little my and I can’t lie and say that I wasn’t hoping that it would show eachother (they’ve kinda grown on me as a ship)

Snork was a delightful character and I’m absolutely devastated by the unfortunate passing of Chance Perdomo may he rest in peace (I apologise I wasn’t too sure where to put this in the post)

The ending of season 3 was actually really sweet and I’m so glad that we are getting a season 4 soon, I can’t wait to see how they make me consider getting therapy!! But thank you for reading this! And I hope you have a wonderful day/night/time!!