oldmannapping
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- Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics) (17)
- Batman (Comics) (12)
- Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics) (12)
- Batman - All Media Types (11)
- DCU (Comics) (10)
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Spencer isn't autistic, but it's a word that keeps coming up again and again throughout his life.
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Spencer Reid and an autism diagnosis: Star-crossed lovers
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The FBI assessor was talking about accomodations. Spencer didn’t understand. Accomodations? Like a ramp? He might have been a bit uncoordinated but he wasn’t that bad.
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“Sorry if this is overstepping, you don’t have to answer, but can I ask when you were diagnosed?”
It took Spencer a moment to realise what she was saying. “Oh,” he replied, a bit thrown. “I’m not autistic.”
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Spencer is sick of people making assumptions about him.
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Reverberations by oldmannapping
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
24 Jun 2025
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Red Hood kills the Joker in the most dramatic and self-destructive way possible.
Gotham residents converge like a herd of overprotective bison.
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- Part 10 of Networking
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On The Record by oldmannapping
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
31 May 2025
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Bernard and Roy start a TikTok page. Red Hood reads thirst tweets. Nightwing is a troll. Roy gets candid.
Gotham isn't prepared.
(Part of my Networking series which fleshes out a Roy-Bernard-Jason friendship, but can easily be read as a standalone)
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- Part 9 of Networking
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Too Much by oldmannapping
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics), DCU (Comics)
19 Nov 2024
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Dick gets dosed with a truth serum. Everyone has a miserable time.
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“You know I ignore your calls sometimes?” Dick told them casually.
Tim’s jaw dropped. “You- What?” Jason looked equally stunned.
Dick held a hand in front of his face and picked at his nails. “I ignore your calls. Sometimes it’s just so… UGH. Haha.” He scratched his jaw. “’S’like, no. Not today. Fix your own fucking problems.”
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- Part 2 of The Truth
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Spencer Reid is Not Autistic (he just ticks all the boxes) by oldmannapping
Fandom Criminal Minds (US TV)
24 Feb 2026
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Networking by oldmannapping
Fandom Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), DCU (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types
24 Jun 2025
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Bernard Dowd & Roy Harper isn't a tag, and this series is an effort to fix that.
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The Truth by oldmannapping
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), DCU (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics)
19 Nov 2024
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Nothing Ever Stops You Leaving by IdLike2SayBeautifulThingsButIDontKnowHow
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
13 Jan 2026
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After a lifetime of feeling like he didn’t fit in, Dr Spencer Reid had finally hit his stride. He was the FBI’s youngest-ever recruit, a valuable member of the BAU and he even had a few people he could call friends. Life was looking up.
Then Gideon leaves with nothing but a letter in a cold, empty cabin, sending Reid into a spiral of self-loathing as his old demons resurface and he struggles to navigate new challenges.
With his physical, mental and emotional wellbeing on the line, will the team realise they are missing the signs of what's really going on before it's too late?
TRIGGER WARNING: This fic deals with an eating disorder and some very unhealthy thinking. Do not read if you are under 18 or if this content will be upsetting to you, and do not use this story to trigger yourself. Please take care when reading and heed the tags.
SPOILER WARNING: Follows canon and contains spoilers up to mid-season 6.
Bookmarked by oldmannapping
25 Feb 2026
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Truly amazing. Read with caution - eating disorder triggers.
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He has to cut this thing out from him. It’s a fungus growing and spreading and rotting inside of him. It started empty, dormant, and as he got older and far more ridiculed and seen, that dormant thing took over the space hollowed out in his chest and made it its own. If someone offered him a scalpel, he might try to cut carefully around it, extract every piece of the fungus and leave a gaping hole that he could fill with something. Anything.
Sometimes Spencer wishes he could tear this part of him out; little does he know that thing is his autism. He learns to live alongside it.
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He's a nice kid.
So Derek isn't sure why Reid is avoiding him.
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- Part 5 of CM Whumptober 2021
Bookmarked by oldmannapping
10 Feb 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Delightful: misunderstandings with resolution. Wish it was longer.
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It's Actually Safer To Kiss by MaximumDragonEnergy
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009), Criminal Minds (US TV)
22 Jul 2023
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And the one time someone took Spencer up on that suggestion.
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- Part 3 of In All My Lives I Will Find You
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Hotch and Morgan discuss the soon-to-be newest addition to the BAU. Pre-series.
Bookmarked by oldmannapping
28 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
The best description of why being autistic in a testing environment sucks. I wish there was more of this story.