Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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Allie Finkle - Allie Finkles Rules For Girls-books by Meg Cabot
- Love rules 'cause it makes things easier.
- Have problem with other people and friendship ('cause there is no rules for friendship)
- She don't like changes.
- She is obsessed by collecting rocks/geods.
- Love animals more then humans
- More mature then others in her age (I think she is like nine years old)
- Have difficulties with empathy/theort of mind.

Certainly Schroeder [the Peanuts character].

Has anyone mentioned Bones? I used to love that show because she was so much like me. This year though, they are way overdoing the character flaws and trying a bit too hard to create 'sparks' between her and Booth. I'm beginning to lose interest. The pairing of Angela and Hodgins seems forced and they can't seem to find another Zach- another Aspie.

Found it. Page 21. Perhaps it was the 'overdoing' her character that brought the 'traits' of being like me to my attention and made me curious enough to look into AS more closely.

How about Ender from Ender's Game? A tactical and strategic genius but socially not so good.

Probably already been mentioned but Kryten (I know he's not human but oh well) from Red Dwarf

What about Egghead?

I am sure somebody must have mentioned before - and I did, on another thread, but I am sure Dr. Laurel Weaver, the forensic examiner from Men In Black I is an Aspie.
She seems to really enjoy a profession the very idea of which is disgusting to most people, she doesn't talk much, does not ask questions but prefers to figure out things for herself, does not lose her head easily in situations which would cause most people to fall apart, exhibits quite sparce mimics and monotony of voice. And she doesn't care much for social interaction - to quote, 'I hate the living'.

In Les Miserable, Inspector Gevrer might be an Aspie. His pursuit of Jean Valjean was myopic and rule driven which matches up with some Aspie traits.

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Shurik from the Soviet comedy movie 'Ivan Vasilievich menyauet profesiu (Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future). He's an engineer who is incapable of registering or participating in non-verbal interaction, exhibits flat affect and is obsessed with his work to a degree that he had to be made forcibly to take his annual holiday - which he spends at home, working at the time machine. Tends to be painfully honest.

What about Donnie Darko?

I know they say he's bipolar in the movie and he's a bit more outspoken than most aspies but there are definitely some similarities.

Such threads like these are usually total crap.

Forums are most often frequented by teens.

Teens do always identify themselves with their favourite characters, no matter if the teen in question is NT or aspie. Thus, the amateur diagnostisation here is really more of a survey on what youths here are identifying themselves with.

Saying that, I think the child show "The Penguins of Madagascar show many characters with NPF-characteristics.

King Julien XIII is definetly ADHD, probably with AS in the picture. He is impulsive, self-centered and unable to understand other individuals.

Mort is a classic autistic.

Kowalski probably has Asperger's.

As do Fred the Squirrel.

This episode really show how the characters exhibit a lot of traits that could fit into the spectrum, especially how Kowalski is more concerned about his experiment than about Marlene's emotions, while Freddy is interpreting everything literally and Julien plans with no consideration or wrong assumptions about how others might react.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gUyyYPGapw[/youtube]

At the same time, I would claim that the character traits the cartoons exhibit is just an effect of the exaggeration which cartoon and 3D film makers are putting into them in order to make them entertaining for kids.