MisterSpock wrote:
I believe Adam is a film about a guy with AS, the boy in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is described as an aspie, Spock is a Vulcan, and John Nash is a paranoid Schizophrenic (probably with autism). In other cases, I think writers write these characters without knowing their 'label'/'condition'.
And Edward Scissorhands was constructed by Vincent Price and left alone for years, so no normality there which he could have learned, NT or otherwise. I think Grissom from CSI is a possible aspie, as is Amelie, Robert Langden, and Larry David's portrayal of himself in Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Larry David's character is not an aspie imo, because he is extremely cunning in his interactions with others. It's just that he doesn't follow the rules of society. He has his own rules of what he thinks are right (that is when he is not being plainly selfish). For any person who knows the show well, the following will make sense: in an interview, LD was asked what was the show about. He replied that it was about geting the thoughts that everyone has but doesn't want to admit they have to be exteriorised. So it doesn't really have anything to do with AS.