Martin is very internally in-tune and good at identifying exactly what he’s feeling and why. But he’s cagey with that information, and or at the very least, the truth/meat of those feelings. He’ll tell you, but he’ll leave the deeper meaning out, cards always close to his chest until he knows what you’re planning on doing with it. He could write a think piece on exactly what makes him tick, and he is absolutely not going to show it to you. You’ll get vulnerable Martin Blackwood, though, easy! He’ll have a deep heart to heart any day! You’ll just leave with next to nothing on him.
Meanwhile, Jon has absolutely no idea what any of his emotions mean or where they came from, but he also can’t stop himself from feeling them constantly all the time, and with no words for them, they’re just leaking all over the place. but he’s incapable of vocalizing anything, so he expresses instead through stubborn and fast actions with little to no thought or logic behind them, operating only on gut feeling, immediate reaction, and high emotionally charged choices when the chips are down. If you tried to have a heart to heart with Jon he would explode.
I’m so, so aware that Jonny has said he never intended for Jon to be canonically autistic (and this is not a way to diagnose any real people either)
But then…*gestures vaguely at this post* look at him. Look at this autistic man who doesn’t get hunger cues and thinks the world is crumbling around him until he gets a sandwich. Tell me this man doesn’t have sensory issues. He keeps earplugs because Tim is loud, I swear
2am for me almost and i’m here yelling about autistic jonathan sims, but i deadass just yelled “EXACTLY!”
While it may not have been intentional, all of his traits together make him so easily familiar to other neurodivergent people. i for one feel like any time he does anything, i find myself just pointing in recognition with my jaw on the floor. i love that autistic man
i just adore what jonny said in one of the Q&A’s about how, even if he didn’t intend something, if it’s in the text, it can be interpreted and read into, even if that text was a mistake/not intentional. it just makes me smile. cause we’re gonna interpret babbeyyyyyyyy ☝🏻
for goodness sake he is the poster child for hyperfixating. we should give him an award