I love how this show feels like it was made by a buncha queer neurodivergent people for other queer neurodivergent people. It doesn't feel forced or shoved into your face for the most time, it just "yep, these fellas are like that, they got these traits and those traits, the viewers may read into it or may not, but these characters are gonna be like that". And that's awesome how the fandom picks it up.
The only problem I've got with how the fandom analyses TOH characters is that everyone talks about the kids (Hunter, Luz, occasionally Gus), some adults (Eda and sometimes Raine and Lilith), and yet NOBODY talks about Alador. My dude just screams neurodivergency, be it autism or a very exhausted version of ADHD. As an adult man with ADHD who used to work 13 hours a day 7/7, I relate to him so. damn. much.

The most striking example of Eda self imposed box is how she’s basically an anarchist but tells Luz people are all just selfish and out for themselves. Luz showed her why she should resist not just how

Alt title: Eda and Luz become ungovernable, Disney chickens out

I love this show so much. The whole 'wonderland via Hieronymous Bosch' aesthetic, the unapologetic queerness, a compelling and thoroughly despicable villain. I'm trying to get my ADHD-partner to watch it, for obvious reasons.

Me watching this as an ADHD person:😊
Hearing the background sounds a little closer:👁️👄👁️ ( my ptsd kicks in)

The show hooked me from the beginning. The opening scene in the principle's office may as well be a scene from my spouse's childhood. I need to go back and watch more of it. Sadly, raising 4 neurodivergent kids and coming to terms with my own ND while supposedly working full time doesn't leave me with lots of free time.

Honestly, if my spouse hadn't mentioned that I might have ADHD, I never would have considered it. I did well in school and didn't have any behavior issues. Sure, homework and projects were a nightmare I always procrastinated on until the last possible minute, but that's completely normal. My parents even said so. And they taught me that all I needed was willpower and self-discipline. That's how I got my college degree.

But by "willpower and self-discipline", I really mean "self-inducing so much stress and anxiety that I trigger hyperfocus". Which works great until it suddenly doesn't and I massively burnout every 2-3 years. And as a parent, suddenly my strategy of "I'll get to it when I get to it" doesn't really work anymore. Even taking powerful anti-anxiety med didn't help much. It got rid of the anxiety, sure, but suddenly every trick I used to make myself "get up and do the thing" stopped working.

I'm on stimulant medication now and it's actually helping with the executive dysfunction. That fact is the reason I'm finally starting to accept that it was ADHD all along, rather than laziness and an unwillingness to work hard enough.

I am very clever. My dad recently said he'd call me the good type of cunning, very strategic and witty. BUT I also have a speech impediment so while my thoughts are intelligent, it doesn't come out that way. I often times feel stupid trying to get the words I want out but I know I'm smart in the ways that matter

There will be a day when an analysis doesn't make me sob like a baby.
But this is not the day.

I don't agree that Luz hasn't changed. She learnt to embrace her true self and matured a lot

1:40 Indeed Luz stays her delightfully dorky bubbly wonderfully weird self but I will say this - she actually does learn to distinguish fantasy from reality (ironically in a fantasy realm) which was what her mother wanted her to be able to do in order for Luz (& others) to not be negatively affected by it (such as realising letting loose firecrackers & snakes in a school is a BAD idea, as well as naively following a quest without questioning its validity) but Luz learns this without losing ANY part of who she is, though her mum did take it too far with the normalcy camp thing but to be fair, the school principle pushed that on her.

Im totally not crying why would I be crying eda is just me still totally not crying

Okay I really need to watch this show all the way through. I didn't do well in school until I got ritalin which helped with impulse control.. The Autism took years to find.

Great video. I thought Eda's neurodivergence was pretty clear myself. I guess it helps when she's just like me fr. Up to and including wanting to reform the education system for the benefit of us weirdos.

I haven't even considered that networked thinking was divergent though, I just assumed that's just the best way to remember things and everybody who doesn't do it doesn't care enough about whatever subject in order to network it with everything else, but does it with what they really care about.

Oh my God! You're back! I hope you're doing well!

As someone who is autistic and was raised in the Mormon church, the Owl House feels particularly relevant to me.

Also, my favorite aspect of the show is that is a showcase of queer hope. We need more of that. Along with the representation of disability, neurodivergence, and people of color, of course.

I know am late I know this may sound silly and all hell am not even a owl house fan, but this video really helped I ended up Crying by the end of it, I was digsnoused with adhd only like 4 months ago, its not like I didn't put that as a possibility I always knew I may have it but get it an a confirmation ? Really did hit, my family doesn't Fully want to addmit that I have a " Disability" and is does hurt abit, I dont blame them through see this and others in the comments talk about there stroies and all that made me feel safe, am still trying my best to learn how live  with it I still wish I was " normal" sometimes bit these kind of videos and people like your really give me hope thank you <3

I was diagnosed with adhd-i in december 2021 & toh became one of my favorite shows because of how much i saw myself in luz (albe it not as extroverted or persistantly optimistic as she is)

God I relate to eda so much

This is one of the best analysis videos I have ever watched.

I started the video to see how Luz is like me, but was somehow reminded of Tekken hyperfixated played that the rest of the day & totally forgot watching.  Classic.  I'm back tho!