Shameless plug time! The Function Verse is my on-going series of 221b ficlets dealing with the lives of the Holmes Brothers pre-series. These will be coming out as inspiration strikes. They are not being written in order, but their linear narrative order is below. These stories all come out of my headcanon for these two, and make loads of ACD!canon references. There are likely going to be a LOT of these.
The story so far (this story is underlined):
Six
Delete
Diet
Never
Delete
A Function'verse Ficlet
By JadedofMara
Mycroft had found him once, three years old and sobbing for the sheer weight of data in his head. They'd sat together in a cupboard in one of the unused wings of the manor all night, in near total sensory deprivation. In the morning, Mycroft got Pa's Apple II off the Sherlock-proof shelf and showed him the 'delete' feature.
They ran into trouble early on when Sherlock went for the largest files and accidentally deleted most of his gross motor control. There was a long lecture about prudence after that, and Sherlock never did anything so stupid again. By the time he learned it back, through several years of occupational therapy, he was as graceful as any dancer.
By then, there were already words like 'spectrum', and 'high-functioning' being thrown about when Mycroft was supposed to be asleep. The diagnoses never fazed Mummy or Pa much—they'd gone through too much grief to have Sherlock to be any less in awe of their youngest—but they knew that Mycroft loved his brother, and didn't want to hurt him.
Still, there was the thought that Sherlock's blinding alexithymia might have been self-inflicted. That this might be Mycroft's fault.
You can't kill an idea, can you? Not once it's made a home, there.
Mycroft worried, constantly, about his brother and his 8-bit brain.
Alexithymia: a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.
Read and Review, dear ones!
Ta,
Jaded