Laconvivencia wrote:
jocundthelilac wrote:
It seems there's a lot more than I thought, but only in cult/low-appeal shows.
I think it's time that a major primetime TV show like Eastenders or Coronation Street had a character with AS that would being the condition to national attention.
Roy Cropper from Corination Street, is rumured to have aspergers.
I like Roy.
He's the only nice one on the whole street! (As well as Hayley). Haven't watched Coro for months... I watched it last night and most of the characters had gotten haircuts so I couldn't recognize them! And where did all these menacing-talking blokes come from?!
Hope Roy ends up officially diagnosed...that'd bring it to people's attention, but via a really good, nice character.
He's been on it for years, though, hasn't he? Quite possibly since before AS was an official diagnosis. So he can't have been intentionally created to have it.
By the way, there's a very badly-acted Aspie called Gabrielle on a very badly-acted New Zealand drama series called Shortland Street. She's officially diagnosed. Never seen that series myself, except for one episode before Gabrielle arrived on the scene, but I know a frightening number of people who are obsessed with it, and they reckon that character's atrociously done!