Have a new idea for a fic which is pretty much just House's POV of the events of my Wilson autism fic "Commedia Dell'Arte." I think it would be interesting to contrast his experience with Wilson's. Because Wilson's was mainly about denial, but House's would focus more on whether a diagnosis would change anything. Specifically, whether it would change how he views himself and his past.
It took Wilson a while to even think that he might be autistic, whereas I think House might have always had the suspicion, but deliberately avoided checking it because it would unearth psychological fuckery. Basically Wilson was clueless but House was fairly intentionally not peeking into his Pandora's box of trauma and self loathing.
He also, in a probably less conscious way, didn't want to have a diagnosis because it would fuck with his theory that he is just the worst and will always be the worst because he is a horrible person. On a surface level he might be like "haha look a Being An Asshole immunity card, can't wait to torture my team" but beneath that I think he actually doesn't want an immunity card. He wants people to hate him because that reflects how he sees himself. A possible diagnosis that would explain why his life went a certain way and why he's never been able to be "normal" would mean he might have to give his past self some grace. It would ignite a war between "I must have all the answers and information" and "I have always been a worthless person who deserves to suffer and should be hated."
Again, I'm not up to writing much right now but I have a couple solid fic ideas I'm developing in my head. I might do a poll about which idea people would want to read to figure out which I should focus on (between this idea and the Wilson's childhood parentification and associated trauma idea).