cold-and-analytical:

I said I would do this so I’m doing it.

. Special interests cartoons. He doesn’t just use them, he KNOWS them, entirely, and well.

. Doesn’t always notice when people are uninterested (usually in his cartoon tangents)

. Stims with the pen. I literally rewound the first video to watch this because his expressionism actually includes the use of his pen (4:53 in the first video)

. His self sung intro seems very ritualistic to me.

. Quotes as echolalia

. 3:23 in the first video you can actually see him spinning in the chair. I’m calling it on stimming, but you could argue, I suppose.

. If you’ve noticed something about Thomas’s characters, he puts a LOT into expression, and while you could blame it on that, his hands move. A lot.

. “Do you, how do?” Is carried out through every greeting in the whole series, and it’s definitely an example of alternative communication styling.

. Ship names also seem very ritualistic to me. It’s something he repeats in the same way, for every set of patients.

. Having the social observation that comes with ASD in learning neurotypical communication, this could definitely be carried over into his work, which is literally to do just that. 

. He encourages his patients to character project, I would have to imagine he has done the same thing himself.

. Blunt dialogue, such as “Oh it’s just you.” That obviously isn’t harmful, but very unmasked-ly honest.

. There are a lot of vocal things that I particularly picked up on, other then grandeur in general. Leading into his sentences by drawing out the vowel, his reaction at 4:25 in the first video, things like that.

. Not always providing background information when he’s talking about things he’s passionate about, and then infodumping on them.

. He’s obviously uncomfortable with PDA.

. He’s got stuffed animals, pictures, figurines EVERYWHERE, which could be a special interest thing, or a comfort object thing.

. You actually can see instances of him thinking in concepts, like when he talks about the ‘relationship’ instead of the people in the relationship.

. Using, or the vibe I get off of him at least, more of an advice giving them comfort providing stance when someone needs it (again, his job, but it applies so I’m using it). He conjectures and switches around a lot in his topics, it makes it seem a more natural communication thing, to me.

. His eye contact shifts. A lot. And that is definitely something that shows up in Thomas’s acting style but I’m using it anyway.

I might be able to find more, but I have some other things to get to tonight, feel free to share your thoughts.