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Reid’s Autistic Traits

I was bored, so I decided to make a compilation of sorts on my favorite autistic character, Dr. Spencer Reid. These have been piling up in my files, so prepare for a gif-style infodump.

Stimming

Self-stimulatory behavior often consists of repetitive movements. Reid is frequently seen fidgeting with his hands and other objects. He almost always talks with prominent hand movements. He also frequently touches his face. Reid occasionally spins in chairs, rocks back and forth, etc.

Missing Social Cues/Confusion in Social Situations

Despite his excellent profiling skills, his interactions with strangers and friends often leave Reid confused and causes him issues when trying to connect with people. He will miss jokes and sarcasm, take things literally, and occasionally gets uncomfortable when speaking publicly.

Infodumping, Hyperfocus, Special Interests

Reid’s special interests, as I have observed them, involve general knowledge seeking, criminology, Halloween, old foreign films, and sci-fi. Reid has a more rare trait of autistic people; savantism. If you believe in quantifying intelligence, Reid has an extremely high IQ (187), He also has an eidetic memory and can read 20,000 words per minute. When Reid is working a case, he frequently enters hyperfocus, ignoring everything else around him. Reid often goes into long-winded explanations of things and is oblivious to others’ frustration with his infodumping.

Sensory Issues

Reid doesn’t have as many obvious sensory seeking/avoidant behaviors as many other autistics, but it does manifest every once in a while. Reid is often uncomfortable with touching strangers, especially shaking hands. He has shown sensitivity to bright lights and loud sudden noises. Reid’s clothing choices also reflect his preference to be comfortable.

Coordination/Spatial Issues

Reid tends to display spatial awareness, coordination, and dexterity issues. He prefers academic pursuits, and ridicule in childhood further led to his aversion to physical activity/sports. He has also only very rarely been shown to drive a car, and takes the train to work. This may be due to difficulties with driving ability.

Appearance/Hygiene issues

Many autistic people struggle with basic hygiene and appearance upkeep. Reid’s hair, whether short or long, is almost always messy and unkempt. Reid’s clothes are often disheveled as well.

Trouble Regulating/Expressing Emotions

Reid tends to suppress his emotions much of the time, but when he experiences strong emotions they tend to pour out and seriously effect him in ways that don’t effect the rest of the team. Reid also tends to have odd/exaggerated facial expressions which may be a way of overcompensating for his struggles of expressing himself acceptably.

Additional stuff:

Avoiding Eye Contact

Going Non-Verbal (I’ve only ever seen this happen to Reid once)

Resistant to Change

Sitting Cross-legged (I’m not actually sure if this is an autistic trait but I always sit like this and so does Reid so I thought I’d include it)

So yeah, I hope that was informative. It was fun to make this post! Thanks for reading!

dave are you and karkat... yknow

Dave: found some loser in my room today whats up

i found it cute that damian seems to typically sit at the head of the table (and bruce has to sit off to the side), but when dick’s visiting, he chooses to sit next to him.

william wisp my favorite morally complex failboy !

Okay I’ve said this a bunch in my tags and to some friends, but Dick Grayson’s temper is unironically my favorite thing about his character

You’re probably thinking “Lucy that’s insane why would you love the thing he’s most ashamed of???” and let me tell you my dear friends, it’s because bad anger issues is the PERFECT foil to all of Dick’s positive traits

Dick is very outwardly perfect. He’s kind and polite to everyone he meets, he very easy going and laid back, he’s funny and insanely charming, he’s handsome and can basically befriend any one. So him having a really bad temper clashes HARD with the rest of his character traits

Dick can jump from 0 to 100 real quick when he’s angry, and his anger problems were always something he struggled to over come and had a lot of different ways to keep himself grounded so he didn’t snap at people

Most of the time it was pacing, doing gymnastic moves, removing himself from the situation if he knew he couldn’t handle it without blowing up

He’s also broken a lot of thing. The panel of him braking his car radio lives in my mind rent free.

Dick as always been an explosive character, so it would make sense that his flaws would also be explosive! The intensity of his rage always matched the intensity of the other ways he expressed himself, and think when they stopped making it so prevalent in his character he became a lot blander.

So basically what I’m saying is; DC give Dick his feral rage back!!! He’s not the same without it!!!