Neurodivergence at Nevermore - Slayage 2026
Once upon a time, the police department right here in Normal, Illinois arrested Fernando Fingertips, a disembodied yet animated and sentient hand commonly known as Thing to his family, the Addams'. With his status as an isolated appendage, Thing doesn't have what we'd call a brain. (We, like Wednesday’s roommate Enid, will ignore questions about how he drinks, or sees since he also has no mouth or eyes). This makes him, by very definition, neurodivergent (i.e. diverging from typical neuro-function), and is just a part of why he fits in well with the Addams family and many of the people at Nevermore. The Netflix series Wednesday has a lot of AuDHD coding, especially for the title character. Some Buffy characters do, as well, though not necessarily Buffy herself. In addition to that similarity, both series are about a kick-ass teenage girl who starts a new school after being expelled for causing chaos at her last one, then gathers a small gro...