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Autistic Henry Winter headcanons

Disclaimer: Doesn't make him any less of an ass. Anyone can be an ass whether they are neurotypical or neurodivergent.

A long list of henry's personality/characteristics (with citations) that lead me to headcanon him as autistic, and a manipulative bastard, that I project onto too heavily.

Special interests: Language learning, the classical world, farming, Homer

'Henry, too, was said to be wealthy; what's more, he was a linguistic genius. He spoke a number of languages, ancient and modern, and had published a translation of Anacreon, with commentary, when he was only eighteen' (page 19.)

'he regarded me with chill distaste. 'I love Homer,'' (page 24)

'This[Homer], I knew, was Henrys special bailiwick' (page 36)

''He's such an old Roman. He'd know[regarding Omens].'' (page 69)

''I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian.'' (page 264)

'He had a pragmatic, farmer-like knowledge of how weather conditions affected growth, germination, blooming times, et cetera.' (page 315)

Has a habit of monologuing

'He had a habit, as I was later to discover, of trailing off into absorbed, didactic, entirely self-contained monologues, about whatever he happened to be interested in at the time' (page 89)

'When I'd lived with him over the winter, he would sometimes go on for hours in these didactic monologues, reeling off a pedantic and astonishingly accurate torrent of knowledge with the slow, transfixed calm of a subject under hypnosis.' (page 414)

His stim is smoking

Speaks in a formal and flat tone

'Henry's calculated, formal English, the English of a well-educated foreigner,' (page 225)

'in Henry's academic monotone' (page 466)

Oblivious to things that he isn't interested in/how the world works

'none of them were the least bit interested in anything that went on in the world... Once, over dinner, Henry was quite startled to learn from me that men had walked on the moon.' (page 93)

'I'll tell you the sort of thing he worried about. Like if he was carrying around the right book, if Homer would make a better impression than Thomas Aquinas. He was like something from another planet.' (page 509)

Primarily eats plain foods

'only made plane things, broiled chicken and baked potatoes, bachelor food.' (page 142)

Has specific routines

''I always rise early. The morning is the best time form me to work.'' (page 90)

'There were certain times of the day or night, even when the world was falling in, when you could always find Henry in the all-night study room of the library,' (page 92)

'He also brought me pencils and paper, for which I had little use but which I suppose he would have been lost without, and a great many books,' (page 139)

Insomniac

Hates noises and generally company

'He's a hard fellow to live with. though. Hates noise, hates company, hates a mess.' (page 56)

Particular with his clothes

'He wore dark English suits and carried an umbrella' (page 17)

'Henry had just come in the door - dark suit, umbrella, and all.' ( page 23)

'and a pair of his own pajamas - silky Egyptian cotton' (page 138)

Sensitive to stimuli

'Henry disliked electric lights, and here and there I saw kersonene lamps' (page 140)

'he said, slapping him on the back - I saw Henry's neck clench and his teeth sink into his lower lip' (page 442)

Takes himself too seriously/ is too serious

'which had prompted a long, humorless speech from Henry about how the fulfillment of the reproductive cycle was, in nature, an invariable harbinger of swift decline and death.' (page 112)

'This stoicism, this Henrylike dedicated to my studies and general contempt for the things of this world, won me admiration from all sides, particularly Henry himself.'(page 116)

'He's always up in the clouds with Plato or something. Works too hard, takes himself too seriously, studying Sanskrit and Coptic and those other nutty languages.' (page 56)

Stiff posture

'he walked stiffly' (page 17)

'Henry, in dark suit, was creaking down the stairs with a stiff, measured thread' (page 441)

Very tidy

'Henry, generally, was clean as a cat' (page 158)