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anonymous December 26 2010, 06:18:20 UTC
Someone: Psychopath.
Sherlock: Sociopath.
Mycroft: Autistic.
Sherlock: [furious]

Please, please! I will love any sized fill with this conversation. I find it interesting that while most of Scotland Yard seems to condone the harassment of their resident sociopathic pain in the ass, usually it is considered a bit not good to torment someone with Aspberger's.

Bonus points for some insight into Sherlock's thoughts on the diagnosis. Does he prefer to be called a sociopath so he won't be treated like he is delicate. Is disdain is preferable to pity?

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anonymous December 26 2010, 15:36:45 UTC
I would love this. Seconded!

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anonymous December 27 2010, 03:41:49 UTC
Thirded. INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW.

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bellelapine December 31 2010, 04:44:19 UTC
Excellent fill is excellent!

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Fill: Just Words tellytubby101 January 10 2011, 12:46:29 UTC
A/N: I'd like to think this set place 'Pre-John', pretty early on in Sherlock's career. GEN.

*

Sally Donovan rolled her eyes. “Freak.”

“Oh, do be a little more original,” Sherlock snapped back, his eyes not leaving the corpse.

“What would you prefer then? Nut case?” Donovan bit back sarcastically, crossing her arms as she watched this no-name ‘consulting detective’ try his hand at solving a case that had zero leads-three bodies, same neighbourhood, nothing linking them but street addresses. “Psychopath?”

“Nice try, but still technically incorrect,” Sherlock Holmes said with an absentmindedness in his voice, hands lifting the dead person’s hair for inspection. “Technically I’m a high-functioning sociopath.”

“Still wrong,” called out a man gazing out through the grimy windows, an umbrella hooked around his elbow though there wasn’t even a cloud in the sky. Sally wasn’t quite sure who he was, but he got the freak in and there was something about the cut of his suit and the way he held himself that screamed government official ( ... )

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OP - I have a fill! anonymous January 14 2011, 18:47:07 UTC
And I didn't even notice it until I read it on sherlockbbc. How did I miss this? Gah! I'm an awful prompter!

Sherlock's tone is wonderfully accurate, and I loved seeing him interact with Sally earlier on in his 'career'. In my own brain!canon, I place more emphasis on his respect for a competent (by his exacting standards) doctor's diagnosis and his animosity with Mycroft. I love that your fill reminded me how... ambiguous?, open to interpretation?... how mysterious Sherlock's actual opinions are.

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Re: OP - I have a fill! tellytubby101 January 15 2011, 00:09:51 UTC
Ahaha, I'm glad you enjoyed this OP. It was fun to write. :)

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