Homestuck Mental Illness Headcanons

everyone has autism. not a single exception.

i wrote a whole list a while ago but i forgot it? so ill just rewrite it :)

john: autism, bpd, major depressive disorder

dave: audhd, bpd, anxiety, moderate (penetrating) tbi

rose: autism, bipolar, ppd, there's definitely more but i don't have specific names LOL

jade: audhd, ocd, severe social anxiety, bpd

jane: autism, ocd that isnt really bad until later into the comic

roxy: audhd, social + seperation anxiety

jake: audhd, social anxiety, mild (blunt) tbi, gad

dirk: autism, ppd, bpd, osdd 1b, depression. there is A Lot Wrong With Him.

i dont have a trolls list because im gonna be totally for real the only trolls i give a shart about are kan & tz <3 otherwise thats it! i think a lot of their disorders are more or less under control pre sburb because theyre in comparatively less stressful situations but during/post-sburb thats when allat really fuckin hits. i think its very interesting 2 speculate how xactly that sort of thing wld work....

ASPD DD and ADHD John are so important to me

aradia megido is autistic and i will die on this fucking hill

May be a slight bit of projection on my part but Tavros is autistic for sure (this is homestuck most of the cast are) but aside from that I've also read some ADHD from him and although I don't have the specifics, he absolutely has some sort of anxiety disorder. I have a diagnosis of GAD but I'm not certain if it's that or something more specific.

i think of john and dadbert as both being autistic. not revolutionary or anything of course. but i picture john as particularly having like, the not-fun type of autism, i.e not able to hold down a job or do well in school, bad at regulating his emotions, big meltdowns, probably would need some kind of support forever under normal circumstances. oh, and i envision him as having a pretty strong autism accent, like some serious cartoonish affect going on. the type of guy who hits all his "T"s really hard when he talks, yknow.

dadbert is similar in some ways, different in others. he absolutely did not think he would ever be a father, and it is difficult for him with his and john's disabilities but he loves john more than anything and finds raising him to be very rewarding. i like to think that in his childhood he had some pretty significant speech delays, and he has a hard time with putting his thoughts into words, so talking isn't necessarily his strong suit. when he does talk, it is slow and deliberate, like he's thinking hard about each word he says.

my less detailed headcanons are that dirk has DID and caliborn has PDA-profile autism as well as developmental coordination disorder.

You can rip the audhd striders out of my cold dead hands. Which isnt alot and theres def alot more wrong with dirk (love whatevers wrong with him)but if theres one thing these two got in my mind its audhd. From the masking to the way they talk thats just how I was when I was younger! So I HAVE to give them a piece of myself, as a form of love.