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• Pick Up The Broken Pieces (And Hope They Don't Cut You When You Do) by Roya_l

  Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton  

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  12 Feb 2026

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  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
  • Johnny Cade & Ponyboy Curtis
  • Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
  • Ponyboy Curtis & Two-Bit Mathews
  • Ponyboy Curtis & Dallas Winston
  • Ponyboy Curtis
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
  • Sodapop Curtis
  • Darrel Curtis Sr.
  • Mrs. Curtis (The Outsiders)
  • Johnny Cade
  • Two-Bit Mathews
  • Dallas Winston
  • Steve Randle (mentioned)
  • Ponyboy Curtis Needs a Hug
  • Autistic Ponyboy Curtis
  • Autistic Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
  • GUYS WE DID IT THATS A TAG NOW
  • Stimming
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Mild Hurt/Comfort
  • the comfort is there but it does not change anything
  • Smoking
  • Underage Smoking
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Autism
  • Bullying
  • Good Brother Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
  • Bad Brother Darry Curtis
  • both are true at different points
  • Angst
  • the curtis parents are trying but they aren't perfect
  • Character Study
  • Growing Up
  • the pain of growing up undiagnosed
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Disassociation
  • Brotherly Love
  • Track and Field
  • Running
  • author hasn't been in track since middle school
  • running as a coping mechanism
  • internalized ableism

  Summary

  Ponyboy Curtis and the years he spends not knowing what's wrong with him, and everything he tries to fix it.

  Or:

  Ponyboy is autistic but doesn't know that.

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  English

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