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Autistic Virgil HC Again

I got so much love on my first autistic!Virgil post and I was asked by someone on Wattpad for more headcanons (and I love autistic!Virgil), so here are some more!

- unfortunately, our boi experiences a lot of sensory overload

- sometimes everything is just way too loud, but not loud because it's just a lot of sounds mixing together and making everything sound loud and just too much!!!

- and people just won't stop  t o u c h i n g  him

- they usually don't even mean to

- just brushing past him to grab something or to get somewhere, but despite knowing that they never mean to upset him, he has ever urge to consume their souls until they're nothing but hair and dust on the floor

- but he always decides that that's a bit much and apologises to them in his head

- whenever this happens, his skin crawls and he gets so many shivers that he just wants to climb out of his own skin and live as 'inside out man' because its just too. much.

- luckily, the others are usually aware of it whenever it happens because he's gotten a lot better at telling them, so they try their best to avoid him for as long as he needs, keeping as quiet as they can too

- headphones are always a huge life-saver

- he doesn't know the science of it, but he thinks that listening to one sound (usually music) kind of balances out his senses a bit

- however

- when he's in a situation where it wouldn't be appropriate to just suddenly slip on a pair of headphones, it's very bad

- he can pretend he's okay for a while, but as soon as he's alone, he just breaks down

- and he really doesn't know how to talk about it properly

- yes, the others know that it happens and what to do when it does

- but sometimes he just wants to talk about it

- but another thing about him is that he can't always express his opinions or thoughts in words

- not because he doesn't have a decently varied vocabulary, but because he just doesn't know how to describe what he's feeling

- not even in simple terms

- all he can say if he's had a bad sensory overload episode is that he 'isn't good'

- oh and another thing

- he is the fussiest eater out there

- because he just cannot eat a food that has a weird texture

- onions?? no thank you. he'd rather eat a rock

- salsa??? very much depends on what's in it

- juice with 'bits' in it????? what the frick are the bits no no no juice is a  l i q u i d  stop

- his hoodie is kind of like a constant hug that doesn't make him uncomfortable and kind of a reminder that hugs (and affection in general) isn't always a bad thing, and can actually feel really nice sometimes

- it's also kind of a comfort thing,,,,, like his anxiety rock or his fidget cube

- and also, our boi has one hell of a pain threshold

- he'll smash his head into a glass door and just be confused as to why the room wasn't letting him enter

- frickin wizards

- but really, this is a bad thing, especially considering how clumsy he is because if he's seriously hurt, he'll rarely be able to feel it enough to understand that 'oh maybe you should put a band aid on that or something'

- Patton is always a very Concerned Dad™️ because of this

I hope you liked this!! let me know if you want more and whether you want me to put my thoughts out there about the other sides! (because I have them, just not all about autism)

also, really, thank you so much for the love. I've been struggling a lot with my autism specifically lately, and I just really love knowing that I'm not alone and that there are people out there who support the person I am