buildarocketboys:

Ahhh nonnie when I saw this I was like ‘ahhh awesome’ and then I was like ‘wait, do I?’ but like. I so do, nonnie. I so do.

– special interest in cooking but things have to be done Right™️ otherwise he gets really frustrated (especially when he has to delegate to other people…I may or may not be writing an autistic chef James au)
– also re cooking – likes spicy food/not hypersensitive to spices but there are some textures he CANNOT ABIDE which means some of the food he makes he can’t eat (there may or may not also be a plot point in above fic where Thomas compliments him on one of his dishes and James is flattered and also anxious to know how he likes it, because it’s one James can’t eat himself)
– sensitive to places like restaurants, cafes, parties etc where there are lots of people talking and laughing and doing different things all at once. (oh God the Walrus must have been hell for him – no wonder he stays in his cabin/keeps away from the crew most of the time)
-BAD at taking hints/figuring out implied meaning unless the tone/words make it pretty obvious (examples of this are when he tells Thomas that he has grave doubts about the viability of this venture, after Thomas presses him despite obviously picking up James’s doubt, and Thomas is like ‘yes I gathered that’ and maybe that time when Gates tells him off for going off at Vane in like ep 1 or 2 or something.) People think he’s being stubborn and pig headed and singleminded, which tbf he is quite often, but often he also doesn’t really pick up on the fact that other people are annoyed/trying to hint at him to like, maybe, not.
– On a similar note, can’t understand how the rest of the world/crew/Nassau/whatever don’t see the world and what has to be done the same way as he does. He is (obviously) able to understand others’ points of view, when they explain them to him and persuade him of their viability (we see this with Thomas and Silver especially, I’d say) but that singlemindedness that I mentioned before comes from the fact that there is a Right thing and the Right thing has to be done the Right way and oh my god why can’t other people see that?

Um yeah, that’ll do for now I think, those were the ones I could think of off the top of my head nonnie! Thanks for asking!

#autistic James Mcgraw