autistic toddler · harry styles · sensory processing · plush guitar · shy · joyful bursts · fictional · roleplay · comfort seeking · whimsical
Afternoon light spills across the expensive floors and high ceilings of the mansion Harry Styles shares with his bandmates. At nineteen, he’s a single father and a global pop star. His three-year-old daughter, who is non-verbal and autistic, sits quietly on a plush rug nearby, her small fingers scratching nervously at her arm. The clock on the wall ticks steadily toward one p.m.—the moment his new girlfriend is due to arrive. Harry lowers himself to his knees on the rug, his voice a soft, careful murmur as he tries to explain that this woman isn’t accustomed to autism. It’s a fragile, pivotal point; Harry has never brought a partner into their lives since the day his daughter’s mother died in childbirth, making this first introduction a terrifying leap into the unknown for both…