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oddball216 · 1 year

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The Riddler’s shown an aversion to touch throughout various media.

he’s visibly flinching in these two

#riddler #oddball makes a post #autistic riddler #edward nygma #edward nigma #the riddler #actually autistic #edward nashton

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railroad-spike · 1 year

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"I knew, I had talked to the creator of the show, Bruno Heller, for a while. Well, actually, it wasn't necessarily a conversation, I was on the phone and I just listened for 15 minutes, and, like, scribbled onto a legal pad every word that he was saying. Because, we didn't have the script ahead of time, and all we had was the first script, and I had like one scene that was gonna last for like 25 seconds, and I'm like 'how the – am I gonna build a character off of this? This is insane.' You know, like, if you have a theatre script or a film script, you know, it's like the entire canvas is in front of you, and you're like 'alright, that's what it looks like, that is the trajectory of this character, and now i get to like fill in everything else' but I'm like, looking at a canvas, I don't know where the end is, and it's like a little ink blot right here, and I was like 'I don't know what to do with this.' So I was like 'Bruno, you gotta help me out here' and he was like 'well here's what we're thinking of doing with Ed' and it was, he talked about, having me look up autism and aspergers and, like, what those qualities are in a human being, and what it's like to have difficulty with social eptitude[sic]"

Cory discussing the physicality of playing Edward Nygma. Conversations with Robin Lord Taylor and Cory Michael Smithof GOTHAM

#gotham #cory michael smith #edward nygma #autistic edward nygma #autistic characters #ed nygma #gotham riddler #the riddler #railroadgifs #gotham tv show #gotham fox #autistic riddler #gotham gifs

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unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog · 26 days

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Happy Autism Acceptance Day! I am once again combining my special interests of Riddler and birds. This was from a reference photo of me with these non-aggressive juvenile swans, so I'm giving him the joy I had. Went with him from Arkham City because he's the one who looks most like me (except the one I hate)

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eddienashtonn · 10 months

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i’m thinking about more autism parallels in riddler year one and something big i’ve been pondering is this feeling of betrayal. everyone edward has ever trusted to help him has let him down, and the rules that everyone else lives by don’t seem to apply to him to the point where he wonders daily what is so different about him that he can’t seem to reach or relate to anyone else. finding out that playing by the rules is useless because of who you are is enough to break your trust in everyone and everything. there’s a sense of trust in the system that gets destroyed when you see it for what it is and realize that the rules you’ve been forced to live by are corrupt and nonsensical and there’s this huge reaction to that because you feel so wronged and abandoned and let down and that feeling of betrayal is magnified 10x because of edward’s lifelong trauma. losing faith not just in everyone around you but in the very foundations of civil society is something that i think a lot of autistic people have to go through and deal with.

#edward nashton #riddler #the riddler #riddler year one #autism #autistic #actually autistic #autistic riddler #the batman 2022 #the batman #batman

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doctor-mccoys-sanity · 9 months

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i had a dream last night and in it i met the penguin and we became not friends exactly but we were on the run together and I told him he’s a fictional character in my world and he said he knew that and then i asked if he was autistic and he said no and told me i was projecting but that Ed probably is and then i asked if he had anything going on with Ed and he just… laughed

#he also helped get the sting ray off of my leg (they’re my biggest fear and it was clinging on to me) in exchange for my help in escaping #gotham penguin #gotham riddler #gotham #oswald cobblepot #autistic riddler #nygmobblepot #edward nygma

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greenmoons · 1 year

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This is from the comics "The Riddler: Year One". It's about the Riddler from the Batman movie. Edward's boss called him "Rain Man". Now for you who doesn't know that, "Rain Man" is an offensive word for autistic people. Rain man was one of the first movies about an autistic character. In modern point of view it's stereotypical impersonation for autism, but it was a representation that left a mark on people. But so many people, mainly adutls, still considers autistics as some kind of a"Rain Man". It's really insulting from the boss to say something like that. But the important thing here is that we have the closest thing for approval that the Riddler is autistic. For years there is the discussion if the Riddler is autistic. I saw somewhere that he is diagnosed with OCD in the comics. But is interest in riddles and social awkwardness are more autistic. Cluemaster has OCD as well, but they are different because Riddler has other things beside OCD. And here, in this comics that was written by Paul Dano, the Riddler's actor, someone insulting Edward in derogatory for autistics. So Paul Dano acknowledge here that the Riddler is autistic coded character. It can be considered that he approved here that at least his portrayal of the Riddler was a portrayal of an autistic character.

#the riddler #the batman #batman 2022 #autistic riddler #autism #autistic characters #obsessive compulsive disorder #riddler: year one #edward nashton #rain man #dc #dc comics #batman #edward nygma #ridder #paul dano

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necromances-chances · 1 year

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“ooh riddlers breakdown at the end of the movie made him look so dumb” NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND THAT IS AN AUTISTIC MELTDOWN. the pacing, the talking aloud to himself about how he doesn’t understand and the yelling??? that’s exactly how my meltdowns look. He isn’t upset about the insults, or being in jail, that was all part of the plan. but batman doesn’t understand and that’s what ruins it all!!!

it didn’t go how it was supposed to.

he tuned batman out, he was unresponsive, he was upset. this is an autistic meltdown to it’s very core.

HE ISNT UPSET HES BEING INSULTED, HES UPSET BECAUSE THE PLAN DIDNT GO RIGHT. HIS ATTENTION ISNT EVEN ON BATMAN. HE IS YELLING, AND PACING, AND HE IS HAVING A MELTDOWN.

#autism #autistic characters #autistic edward nashton #the riddler is autistic #autistic riddler #paul dano riddler #the riddler #meltdown #autistic meltdown #actually autistic

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unrestrainedbalderdash · 1 year

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This autism acceptance day, don't wear blue for Autism Speaks. Wear green and purple for the Riddler.

#the riddler #riddler #edward nygma #edward nigma #autistic riddler

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rin-the-shadow · 1 year

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They're nerding out over a book of riddles, which in my mind, was in a language Riddler doesn't know, but which Bookworm translated for him. I wanted to get their expressiveness at a level that's appropriate to their characters, since while Riddler tends to use very big expressions and a lot of movements, Bookworms expressions, even when he is blatantly nerding out, tend to be very strictly controlled, with his facial expressions sometimes coming off as almost muted at times, except in moments where he briefly flies into a rage.

And of course, since it's also autism acceptance month, I kind of wanted to draw some fanart of two of my favorite autistic headcanon characters interacting. I've loved the idea of them having a villainous friendship for awhile, which I think was further cemented by Riddler's mentioning Bookworm as one of the guys he never sees anymore during his lament in When is a Door? as well as that fanart I reblogged awhile back.

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oddball216 · 1 year

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Puzzle pieces don’t represent autistic people.

Unless that autistic person is the Riddler.

#riddler #oddball makes a post #autistic riddler #actually autistic #edward nygma #edward nigma #the riddler

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hetheyussy · 2 years

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autistic and ocd edward nashton hc + reasons why

(spoilers for prequel book)

• he doesn't understand social cues at all

- when he was signing out to go deliver food and got confused by the worker's questions

- completely misconstrued the reason that bruce smiled at him when they were kids

- made inappropriate comments about anagrams he found in his costumers orders and names

- thought batman was on his side throughout the movie

• obsessive behavior surrounding his special interests

- got a degree and job in forensics accounting because it connected to his focus on puzzles

- has a constant habit of creating anagrams from every word he sees

- gets extremely exited when he hears the joker's puzzle in arkham

• consistent meltdowns and breakdowns

- his meltdown in his cell

- the screaming of ave maria in his interrogation with batman

- constant repeating of renewal in his journal

• lack of understanding around other people and hygiene

- othered in school

- also went to college in hopes that he'd be left alone

- dirty bowls and empty glasses strewn around his apartment

- the overall cluttered nature of everything in his apartment

• heightened emotional responses

- mad at the rich kids for throwing him off his bike while they were street racing so he blows up dex's car

- had his meltdown in arkham when he realized that he was going to be alone

- wants to kill bruce because of his previous vendetta against him but also because of what thomas did

- freaks out when he finds out that batman isn't on his side and starts screaming

#edward nashton #edward nashton headcanon #paul dano riddler #batman riddler #autistic riddler #autism headcanon #ocd headcanon

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aph-mable · 9 months

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dpxdc; My Uncle is Nuts.

My Uncle Is A Nut

Written by:

Aph-mable

@thegatorsgoose

Having been announced the heir and Co ceo of D.A.L.V co, Danny has gotten used to being dragged to formal events with Vlad against his will. Getting caught up in saving one of the many galas he’s forced to attend, Danny catches the eye of one Lex Luther.

Chapter 1

Danny tries hard not to sigh for the umpteenth time as Vlad drags him towards another group of rich folks and reporters.

When his Godfather had publicly announced Danny as his heir during one of his mayoral speeches he thought he was going to die all over again from sheer embarrassment and frustration, especially when he started calling Danny out of class to work on ‘special’ projects or drag him to Gala’s like this one.

Usually at least one member of team Phantom would come along, usually Sam since her parents often forced her to attend anyway, unfortunately this time everyone was busy.

Sure Danny could have asked, but he didn’t want to take away what little free time they had during spring break, so for now he was going to face this party on his own. After all nothing really interesting happens at these and he’s not going to end up socializing much anyways.

At the moment Vlad had rolled him over to a group of men who were chatting away about their latest technology, a nerdy looking yet buff reporter taking notes on everything.

Danny was only half listening to what was being said when the frootloop budged in, something about wanting to partner up with Wayne tech since DALV co was already partnered with Lex co.

He could only roll his eyes and cringe as his crazy arch nemesis wrapped an arm around the shoulders of the bald ceo who looked just as done as he felt.

Seeing Vlad finally to distracted with his deals Danny took his chance and snuck away, moving his wheelchair as fast as possible to make a break for it, away from the party and to explore the building. maybe even escape if he was lucky.

Unfortunately as he reached one of the doors the pesky security stopped him, saying he needed to stay within the building, so he pulled out the oldest trick in his book.

“I have to go to the bathroom, can you at least point me to it?” He even pulled out his pleading eyes to look as innocent as possible to make the security guards feel uncomfortable.

“It’s through those doors over there, just across from the kitchen… do you want-” before the guard could finish Danny was already zooming to the door and shouting, “No thanks, byye!”

Once out of sight he at least made an effort to head towards where the bathroom was but stopped in front of the kitchen.

First double checking all sides of the hallway, he pushed himself into the kitchen in search of something to tinker with. Danny swears he will drop dead if he doesn't get some kind of technology in his hands.

When he entered the place was completely empty of any staff. makes sense as they had set up a huge buffet in the main hall and had all the kitchen staff stand against the wall to show who cooked what, like it was some kind of grand show.

This left Danny to ‘borrow’ a few appliances, they’re rich they can afford it!

He ends up taking a toaster, a blender, and some kind of cylinder air fryer, stuffing them all into his magic bigger-than-it-looks bag and bolting out of there as fast as his wheels could take him so as to not get caught.

Once he re enters the gala he parks himself in the furthest corner near a window. He starts pulling out his mini tool kit and the items he took, trying his best to hide them by making them semi invisible so it just looked like he was messing with his tools as he gets to building an ecto gun.

Danny tried to stay alert and scan the room on occasion but nothing much was happening, Vlad was still bragging to the group of men, and there were only three other kids around his age hanging out on the opposite side of the room. One looked ready to pass out while the other two stood next to the door arguing over who’s dog was best.

Danny pulled his goggles down over his eyes and rolled up his sleeves so his specialized gloves could start putting power into the ecto gun. He quickly starts to hyper focus as he tinkered with the homemade gun, his mind drifting off to play among stars that were just out of reach.

Even with everyone talking around him it all faded to white noise, finally quiet enough he now focused his power to flow through the machinery as he twisted the screws into the right place.

His very core sang with how peaceful it was as he finished making the home made ecto gun and set it down in his lap.

Just as Danny turns it invisible to put it away, his chair is suddenly jerked as he’s dragged towards the now frightened guests, a group of men dressed in green and purple question marked suits threaten everyone into a corner as they start setting up strange equipment.

Clutching his invisible weapon tightly in his lap one of the goons tries threatening him with a gun, but before Danny could react Vlad steps in front of Danny, letting out an instinctual growl to make them back off.

The goon rolls his eyes before directing them to where he wants them to go, trying hard to not let his hands shake too badly as he thrust more people into the now overcrowded corner, keeping watchful eyes on Vlad who is seconds away from losing his temper and ripping someone's throat out.

Now most people in this situation would just listen to their captors, sit still, be quiet, all that jazz, especially with how many of the goons were now bringing in strange green canisters of gas that gave off the scent of pure fear.

Yet as Danny rams Vlad’s ankles with the wheels of his chair it's pretty clear he wasn’t like most scared civilians. For once he was siding with his godfather as he was very, very angry. Angry that they were targeting innocent people, angry that Vlad was treating him like he was helpless, angry that he had to show up to this stupid gala in the first place… He had noticed some of the other kids giving them the slip earlier, at least there’s that.

Just as they bring in the last canister one of the goons trips and nearly brakes open the container, which got the already annoyed second incharge to yell at them.

“For fucks sake! Be careful with those things, we don’t even know what they’ll do yet!”

The younger looking goon, who looks barely out of their teens, shrinks away as they whimper out an apology. He sets the items down as others around them either stare in frustration or sympathy.

Yeah, no.

“Wow you people are pathetic.”

The second in command turns at Danny’s outburst, taking a step forward and clenching his fists. “What the fuck did you just say?” Danny rolls his eyes before glaring at the goon “I said you’re pathetic, did you get that or do you need me to repeat myself again?”

The crowd looks on in half horror, half shock as the leader walks up to Danny, resting his hands on his arm rests and leaning down to stare at Danny threateningly. Danny leans back in his wheelchair and looks up at him with a bored expression, unphased. Vlad tries to shove his way to Danny, but is held back by several goons. Danny spares a quick glare at his godfather, he has everything under control.

“I may be a criminal, but even I don’t like kicking a kid when they’re already down.” The goon says, moving his eyes down to glance at Danny’s wheelchair and back up again, glaring into his eyes. “So I’m going to give you one last chance to take that back.”

Danny narrows his eyes at the goon as he clutchs the invisible ecto gun in his lap, it’s now or never. With near inhuman speed he quickly reaches for his bag and pretends to pull the weapon out, aiming it right at the goons temple. There’s audible gasps from the crowd as the goon stumbles away with wide eyes before gaining his footing and going right back to glaring.

“And I’m going to give you one last chance to reconsider what you’re doing with your life” Danny smirks at the goon, already reading up the lecture in his head.

“It’s 30 minutes past start time, what is taking you so-“ Danny’s smirk evolves into a full shit eating grin as the Riddler walks in to scold the goons, what perfect timing.

With the crowd distracted Danny uses his other hand to unlock his phone. With a few simple swipes, Danny has the gala on lockdown. With the main asshole inside.

Perfect.

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Damian puts on his Robin suit with trained proficiency once they make it to the cave. Unfortunately he and Jon were the only ones able to leave on time, the rest of the family having been dragged away. Truly, this proved that he had good reason to not mingle with the crowd. It had nothing to do with the noise. Or the lights. Or the small talk.

Truly.

“Who do you think it is this time?” Jon asks, an excited smile on his face. But even while being carried, Damian could see the tension in his frame, the nervous tick in his brow. His friend was worried. “I mean, they have the question mark thing going on, but they also had the gas canisters which I don't think the Riddler does that? And the gas itself kinda smelled like lavender and hazelnuts like fear gas but it was also kinda minty? And not like candy cane minty but like straight mint leaf minty? I don’t know, I only know there’s a difference cus ma tried to make mint tea that one time cus she was super sleep deprived and she read online that mint tea could improve memory or something, that stuff reeked!” Another indication of Jon’s nervousness, rambling. By the time Jon had finished his rant, they had already made it to the gala.

Once he’s put down Damian dusts himself off and turns to Jon. “It is most likely a team up, then.” He pulls out his katanas and readys himself for the fight ahead. “Once you break down the door our job is to stall long enough for the others to get out. We don’t know what the gas can do, so keeping the containers safe is our top priority.” As much as it pains him to admit, just him and Jon won’t be enough to handle it themselves. There’s too many people, and they need some of the bats to disperse around Gotham in case the riddler has set up a larger plan.

Jon smiles at him and nods, hopping from foot to foot in excitement (which he doesn’t find adorable at all). “You ready?” Damian gives a sharp nod before Jon kicks in the door.

“-I mean COME ON, people would PAY you to have a chance at your game show! You could even do your whole “riddle me this!” Thing as it’s own segment! But noOOOOooo, you wanna risk the lives of countless civilians so you can get a fucking furry to answer your stupid riddles, most of which aren’t even original! And NOW you wanna partner up with a fear junky cus why?”

“I-“ a clearly startled Riddler tries to answer before being interrupted.

“Oh yeah, cus your BUDDY, your PAL scarecrow, thought it would be so FUNNY to release an UNTESTED gas in a gala for a fucking THRILL HIGH.”

But instead of a fight they walk into.. this.

A wheelchair bound boy with black hair and blue eyes (who he’s sure his siblings would call “adoption bait”) holding a strange silver and green gun that looked straight out of one of Damian’s sci-fi mangas, at a confused and startled Riddler. It seems the crowd used this as an opportunity, as the rest of the goons were restrained near the walls by a mix of his family, Kent, and various gala attendees, while the middle of the room was occupied by the armed boy.

“Huh?” Jon let his arms rest at his sides as his head tilted to the side in confusion (it does NOT remind him of a confused puppy, absolutely not). However before Damian could say anything, it seems the boy has finally noticed them.

“Oh, you’re here. Took you long enough.” The boy finally puts the gun down and into a bag at his side. “Have fun.” He says in a bored tone as he turns and starts pushing himself in the direction of a man with silver hair, Vlad Masters, who met him in the middle only to start fussing over him, seemingly much to the boy’s annoyance.

Finally shaking off their shock both Damian and Jon rush to detain the Riddler until the police show up, yet Damian’s curiosity keeps bringing his eyes back to Master’s and his ward. outwardly, the concern seemed genuine, but with how the boy was reacting to just being touched by Master’s… made him think otherwise.

Even Lex Luthor was side eyeing the man instead of resuming his chatter with father or Mr. Kent, meaning something was happening and Damain was determined to find it out one way or another.

For now though, they have their hands full because of Riddler and Scarecrow.

Domain knew he should have stayed back with Ace.

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End of chapter 1

#dyslexia #long reads #batfamily #bruce wayne #clark kent #disabled danny #wheelchair au #jon kent #damian wayne #the riddler #scarecrow #patrol partners event 2023 #mild violence #swearing #dpxdc #autistic writers

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eddienashtonn · 10 months

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there’s something so autistic about the riddler as a character. the frustration of having no one really see you, the need to prove yourself smarter and cleverer than all of them to make up for the fact that you could never fit in with them, the compulsive joy of forcing others to play by your rules, the obsession with truth and answers, the comfort of having your own space where you’re in control, the fear of inadequacy, the isolation and loneliness, the need to be acknowledged in your reality to be satisfied but never able to reach that satisfaction.