Anonymous asked:
LMAO here to save you from the carnally horny asks with an actual question, this guy interests me so much and the autism shit is a little funny to me, what traits of autism does he have cuz i know he was (or couldve been?) dxed with it but why specifically did they think he is? <3
He was diagnosed with autism but disagreed heavily with it, which honestly I feel like his objections to it made him look way more ridiculous than if he were to have just accepted it, but the main traits that got him diagnosed were:
- Very repetitive behaviors and being insistent on specific routines (which I believe could also be influenced by OCD which he also had, although I could be mistaken); repetitive speech, most notably his use of the phrase "you see what I'm saying"
- Struggled a lot when it came to understanding nonverbal social cues. He struggled in communication overall and was very difficult to engage in conversation
- He struggled heavily with making friends and seemed uninterested in other people, IIRC his dad said that he only remembers seeing Dylann making a friend by himself once (most of his friends were introduced to him by other people)
- Really intense interests, some of the ones that he had throughout his life were dogs (specifically dalmatians), bionicles, Star Wars, MapleStory, dinosaurs, and of course white nationalism. He wouldn't have much interest in anything outside of his current hyperfixation
- A lot aversion to physical contact, such as hugging
- He was particular with the clothes he wore (I plan to make a separate, more in-depth post about this later)
- Specific eating habits, like eating the same thing for lunch almost every day (10 piece chicken nuggets, half spicy and half regular) and always ordering spaghetti when he would go out to dinner with his family when he was younger, always eating the same thing every day after coming home from school while watching the same movie
- Fixation on cleanliness and very particular about things like laundry detergent
- Struggled a lot with making eye contact
- Very intense social anxiety
- Always pretty flat and doesn't express a lot of emotion
