Master post of all Shane's autistic moments from episode 1. Feel free to send me an ask or comment any moments I may have missed.

Obviously, not all these behaviours are exclusive to autistic people. But, the way Shane executes all these things is most certainly austisic.

i resent everyone asserting shane "obviously" got autism from his dad like yuna doesn't share a hockey special interest with shane. please. she could barely focus on her son's boyfriend saying he'd happily be traded to another team to be near her son bc she was too caught up in thinking about hockey. guys please.

Hudson talking about how he immediately empathized with and recognized Shane as autistic and how Shane reminds him of his autistic father 🥺 excuse me while I burst into tears

I realize not everybody is autistic regularly but today I saw someone say shane has Catholic guilt somehow and i had to not crash out.

Being autistic is genuinely living everyday like you’re not supposed to be there. It’s feeling like you’re intruding by existing and not knowing how to even hold yourself or interact with people. It’s Shane being reclusive because talking to people is such a hassle that he needs an extrovert (hayden, ilya) to force a friendship and he can sustain it from there but he wont start it.

Like Shane holding himself awkwardly is so me. I dont even feel comfortable in my own body, like im standing 3 steps behind and not fully controlling my limbs. Worse he’s socialized as a dude and therefore to ignore so many social cues and standards embedded into culture.

I hate the sensation or crying and I feel like Shane does too. I hate vomiting too and would rather swallow it than let it out. I also hate coughing. They’re all overstimulating and now I’m projecting that onto shane too.

Shane my sensory seeking baddie that uses sex to express built up energy and subspace to quiet his mind. Shane my sensory seeking baddie that drinks cold ginger ale cuz he likes the sensation of carbonation and hates lukewarm or flat drinks.

Shane who wears socks cuz if he thinks about his feet too much he might explode. Shane who wears socks cuz feeling the floor is overstimulating too.

Thats pookie.

hudson williams never change

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Ilya never dismisses Shane.

When Shane is being literal to Ilyas 'Bonjour' and says "That's french, Ilya", Ilya doesn't put him down for not getting whatever joke he was doing with it and instead doing his own joke, nor dismiss him for having chosen the wrong dialogue option with taking it literal, he instead responds with "I know Shane" to put down the matter, and to acknowledge Shane, and yes to tease him a little, but he responds seriously to Shane's response about the technicality.

He accepts and moves forward with the response Shane gives him, not with whatever response he planned for him to have or someone else might have had.

In the bar in Florida, Ilya engages with the answers Shane gives to his poking at him and Rose (which Shane doesn't notice), and doesn't dismiss him to push for the question he wanted to ask. Partially because he doesn't want Shane to notice that that's what he's getting at, but he also genuinely engages with Shane's answers, he isn't impatient, he lingers in the moment. Even when he is madly jealous.

When he facetimes Shane from Russia, he anders his questions and worries, even if shortly because he doesn't want to talk about it, before asking about the glasses again.

At the beginning of their affair, he often tells him to fuck off, both do, because they both are caught in the fear of being too vulnerable, and in the corresponding cage of masculinity. But even when telling him to fuck off, he acknowledges Shane and doesn't ignore him when he doesn't like what he does, he engages with Shane as the person he is, while they both test the edges and shape of their new relationship and who they are in relation to that.

That's really special to me in the context of Shane's autism.

Some of my favourite comments talking about Shane’s autism

HC rambles again.

Alternates are nocturnal, I don't think they really need sleep, they're just more active at night. Yeah encounters can happen during the day but those are quite rare.

I think this nocturnal behaviour is something Adam experiences (Similar to the unintentional mimicking hcs). When he was a child it was way more problematic, whoever was taking care of him probably didn't appreciate having to deal with this one specific kid who runs around at god knows what hour and will not go to sleep at all. Adam did adapt to the typical human sleep schedule as he got older, but he still finds himself being far more active/energetic at night.

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a lot of my autism masking is just making myself more palatable for other people and my therapist said "does spock make himself 'more palatable' for others?" and had me promise to keep unmasking like:

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