favorite possibly autistic TV characters

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My favorite possibly autistic TV characters are Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds, Brick Heck from The Middle, Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle, Abed from Community, and Anna Kat from American Housewife. I find these characters to be the most accurate portrayals of autistic people I have seen so far. I can relate to the struggles that these characters have. What are your favorite possibly autistic TV characters?

brick heck from the middle i also think his sister sue and his father have it as well but i relate to brick and sue the most. i also think ariel from the little mermaid tv series and lilo from lilo and stitch tv series does as well. my other favourites are sheldon cooper and amy farrah fowler from the big bang theory, peter parker from spiderman cartoon, mr bean, mr spencer from some mothers do ave em, joxer from xena warrior princess, anya from buffy the vampire slayer, wednesday addams, eleven from stranger things, dagwood from seaquest dsv probably loads more lol i always seem to diagnose any character i can relate to with autism i think they are just like me so they must have it but maybe i am seeing something that isnt there i dont know

Temperence Brennen from Bones especially the first few seasons before she got happily married ever after. She was the first that had autistic traits/presented socially at a level I could relate to. I was a kid at the time Spock came out and had no sense that I was relating to him on some level, he was just a character on TV I liked. Even today his presentation is at a more obvoius level than mine.

Mob from Mob Psycho 100 very much exhibits traits of high-functioning autism.

i think miss bat from the worst witch tv show in the 90s is autistic she seems to have meltdowns and shutdowns. and aunt hilda form the sabrina the teenage witch show i think is autistic i seem to like tv shows about witches lol

Wolfgang played by Arte Johnson on the late 60's and early 70's sketch comedy "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" for repetitive behaviors. He sat behind a potted plant in his Nazi uniform and says "Veeeery interesting" every episode.

I know he tends to set off negative remarks even here, but I don't care. I like Sheldon Cooper on Big Bang Theory. Despite all the differences between this fictional character and me, I find him very relatable.

I would have liked Amy a lot more if she wasn't so hypersexual and so impressed by Penny, my least favorite character ever.

I really enjoyed the sitcom “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” when I was a boy. It aired from 1959 to 1963. As I rewatched the series episodes, I quickly saw this was a television show about Aspies under the lens of rose- colored glasses. Maynard G. Krebs was a beatnik, but if you look closely he was of the sub-tribe of Aspies called a music Aspie. He was very shy and wore sloppy comfortable clothes. He was a natural musician and his whole obsession was music. He had one close friend who was Dobie Gillis and he was a loyal friend. Maynard was absent minded and had no common sense. He was a sweet good kind human being that learned how to walk first and then later how to crawl. He was “true, loyal, trustworthy and not one mean bone in his body.” Another character Zelda Gilroy was a very intelligent female math/science Aspie. She first appears in the third episode “Love is Science”. She decided that she and Dobie are destined to fall in love because of the principles of propinquity. Their last names start with the same letter, therefore when seats are assigned in the classrooms, they will sit together and naturally this close proximity will lead to love. The only problem is Dobie was not attracted to Zelda. Of all the characters, Dobie, was the most difficult to figure out. I think the thing that gave it away was Dobie has a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn. He was in his “Pleasing 4” stage of childhood development. The program begins in High School and Dobie has one great obsession, to find one special girl to call his own. But what sub-tribe of Aspie was Dobie? Well I had to use a little deductive reasoning to figure this one out. Many writers write from their own life experiences. If the character of Dobie is based on an individual that would someday become a very successful screenwriter of a hit television program, then that would make Dobie from the sub-tribe of literary Aspies.

So there are many threads on this website, crying out "how can anyone love me". This sitcom began in the high school years and it was all about looking for one special girl to call your own.