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Autistic Aang
- Autistic Aang who frequently misreads social situations.
- Autistic Aang who doesn’t understand social norms, especially not ones that have changed over the past 100 years.
- Autistic Aang who also assumes that other people have the same motivations and reasoning he does, which means he assumes everyone is as caring and selfless as he is, and unfortunately this is not always true.
- Autistic Aang who stims with airbending.
- Autistic Aang with hyperempathy, who cares so much about everyone, who feels incredible pain when he thinks of all the suffering that happened in the 100 years he was gone and blames himself for it.
- Autistic Aang who didn’t understand why the other air nomad children treated him differently once they learned he was the Avatar. After all, he was still the same person; why should that make any difference?
- Autistic Aang who refuses to accept traditional solutions, who uses his unique approach and way of thinking to find more peaceful ways of solving problems even when everyone else tells him it can’t be done.
- Autistic Aang who needs to wear very comfortable, soft, flexible clothing like the clothing the air nomads wear, who is extremely uncomfortable in anything tight or hot or scratchy or restricting.
- Autistic Aang who needs to be alone sometimes to think and make big decisions properly.
- Autistic Aang who doesn’t like the sensory experience of having hair.
- Autistic Aang who has a very expressive face, who doesn’t know how to hide his emotions.
- Autistic Aang who likes to move around, who sometimes just can’t sit still, who flails around and stims and jumps and flies and flaps his hands and arms.
- Autistic Aang who can’t accept unexpected or new information unless he sees it for himself.
- Autistic Aang who struggles to accept change.
- Autistic Aang who can’t control the volume of his voice when he’s excited or upset.
- Autistic Aang who doesn’t know exactly how to make friends, who just tries to be as nice and happy as possible and hopes that people will respond positively to this and want to be his friend. Luckily this works really well for him most times.
- Autistic Aang who sometimes asks questions with answers that seem really obvious to other people, but he genuinely doesn’t know the answers and is very confused when people expect him to.
- Autistic Aang whose favorite sensation is, of course, the air. He loves flying, he loves manipulating the air, he loves the feeling of a gentle breeze or a strong gust of wind, just sitting or standing and letting the air hit his face is one of his favorite ways to calm down when he’s stressed or overstimulated.
- Autistic Aang who loves to talk about things he’s passionate about, and he loves to listen to people talk about things they’re passionate about.
- Autistic Aang!
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Also, consider the following:
• The marble trick Aang does is his favorite stim. He likes the feeling of hovering them between his hands and the way they reflect and blurt off of sunlight just the right way. When he’s not airbending them, he rolls them around on his palms in a circular motion and likes the sound they make hitting one another. When he’s not using them they’re in his belly button because hat way he knows that they are safe and an easy access to reach for them when he needs it. Bystanders (who know he’s the Avatar when he’s airbending) are either very concerned or annoyed by the act and/or the face he makes doing it (his default expression is both wide-eyed glee and intense concentration), but the Gaang are used to it and let it be (Sokka’s bored of it but never stops him, Toph and Zuko are confused about Aang’s stiff excitement about it but again let’s it drop, and Katara and Suki encourages him to keep playing with them because they know it makes him happy). When he gets older the more it’s cool with him to switch out to other random stuff to hover in his hands like rocks or sticks or coins.
• Aang loves the feeling of running his hands through Appa and Momo’s fur, listening to the noises they make, and the heat they radiate off: another favorite sensory stim. Shed-fur’s a different story-SOO itchy!
• His fashion sense with random hats-so cool, and hey, good for staying out of sight too.
• Aang always finding the chance to pet and become friendly with another animal. He never discriminates creatures because he’s both in human mentality and animal mentality (same with the spirits too).
• It’s not just the taste of Sea Prunes that puts Aang off, is the texture and the smell that’s the big thing.
• Aang crunches on hard vegetables like carrots and cashews when he has the chance to snack.
• Sometimes Aang seems like Mr. Obvious when repeats what a person said, but that’s his echolalia happening.
• Dyspraxia happens (especially with his hands) and sometimes he turns this into airbending.
• Aang twirling with his arms spread out because no reason it it feels good and his body wants to move like that.
• Learning new bending techniques helps him get more of an understanding on how his body moves and functions more.
• Aang enters the spirit world often, but sometimes unintentionally when he’s counting all 108 of his prayer beads in his hands and humming without meaning to go into meditation.
• Aang can enter the spirit world when he wants to, but sometimes it’s really tricky because he gets distracted by his surroundings very easily. Could be people in the background talking, or the way the wind keeps rustling the tree branches that catches his attention.
• Aang is already sensitive to his surroundings due to airbending and shaving all his hair off, but when he learns Seismic Sense it’s a whole new feeling entirely being aware of everything moving.
• The more he hangs out with Sokka and Toph, the more savvy he gets.
• Aang has a habit of laughing at humor in a situation that’s not supposed to be funny, but when he’s serious, he’s focused on the task through tunnel-vision.
• His air staff is another stim toy-twirling it, twisting it, waving it because of the texture of the wood and prongs of the wings and the “whoosh” it makes, ectera-and his security blanket in a stressful situation. When he’s without his staff, it’s massaging his palms.
• Besides the marbles and petting animals, other things Aang likes to do with his hands: braiding rope or flower/grass stems into knots, following this curve of his Bison whistle, juggling coins, simply flicking them, ect.
• Aang loves the quiet, alone moments he has meditating or flying just as much as he likes to interact and connect with people. He’s ok with being left alone, not to BE alone.
• Aang desperately approves of the the approval/criticisms of Katara, Toph, and Zuko during bending training.
• Aang rarely has meltdowns or shutdowns, but he went into shutdown in “The Serpent’s Pass” after his meltdown in the desert over the strain of loosing Appa. He feels a little better afterwards, but his emotions and stress keep piling up for another one until Appa’s return in “Lake Laogai” dissipates it.
• Aang’s first encounter with an ableist giving him a hard time, and him trying to settle this encounter peacefully. What happens next is up to you.
• Aang’s unadulterated joy at meeting another autistic person in the Avatar universe because there’s someone else like him out there (could be another human or him connecting with a past autistic life). It’s almost the same as if he met another air nomad.
atla fanart based on this picture ... also first post
My Zukka comrades don’t want in on this photo? I’ve only seen Zutara fan art versions 😂
sokka would take multiple pics and then tease him about it forever
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Zukka is a ship that I'm ultimately indifferent to but its existence gives me more glee than any other ship. As someone who obnoxiously spent the majority of my pre-teen years going to forum war for Kataang against Zutara, and watching as that war went on strong for years after I'd left my station, the rise of Zukka basically felt like this
"After ten long years the fight shows no sign of stopping. Kataang is once again bringing its ultimate attack of canon-compliance, while Zutara has released another essay on how it better suits the show's themes of balance- wait. What's this? Why it's-it's- IT'S ZUKKA WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!!!"
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i've been rewatching og avatar and I just really love these guys :,>
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The newest Tumblr inside joke was to reply to any and all tutorials or guides with “OP thinks they‘re Jichael”.
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Finally “do you love the colour of the sky” got compressed for our convenience
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after finishing my hero academia i have decided that i actually do like bakugou. i thought i was going to hate him the whole time because of his personality but he got a lot better for me as the show went on and when i started reading the manga. i don't ship bakudeku but i understand why people do a little better now. my favorite character is todoroki and i kind of ship tododeku and at first i really liked deku with urakara. i kind of still do but not as much as todoroki. the series is really fun and im glad it was one of my first introductions to anime and manga. im still working on reading the manga though.
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this post is exclusively for people with dirty rooms
this post is specifically for people who know their room is a mess, but their brain won't let them clean it. this post is for you. I love you and I see you