Fictional characters with AS

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Any character with highly attuned senses/equipment who acts as the tribe's "eyes and ears". Any Egon Spengler type character who cannot "switch off" and analyses every aspect of the situation/physical environment in great detail with complex technical jargon. Fiddles with gadgets a lot. He/she is usually the tribe's "last chance saloon" or "secret weapon" in the event of a catastrophe.

Any of the inhabitants on "Merrytwit Island" in "Charlie Chalk".

Perhaps the unique character's personalities are "islands" in themselves. The characters interact in an honest and practical fashion. They are individuals and each has his/her unique job to do to contribute to the community. There is no Mob mentality. The humour is very dry and satirical.

I keep seeing a recurring themes in media to do with eccentrics or lost tribes being marooned on islands/islands sinking into the sea. Something buried deep in human consciousness perhaps?

Oh, definitely! I love that book!

It wasn't clearly marked intentionally, I believe. I loaned my copy out and can't look right now, but I think the author worked with people who had autism and AS and wanted to write a book where the main character was on the spectrum, but wasn't treated as such in the book.

It's been a lot of years since I've read the Anne of Green Gables series, but I don't remember her behaving like a person with AS. I thought she was a bit shy because she was thrust into a new enviornment with Matthew and his siter (can't think of her name). They seemed a bit different to me, but then, they are in a different culture than which that I grew up in. (Southern US vs. Canada) Help me remember...

I think I had an Asperger professor in seminary. He had his own world. He was a walking encyclopedia of church history--could spout out any fact from any time period, no matter what century. He wore red socks every single day, for every event, with every attire (even suits and tuxedos). He had done this since college I think, as a declaration of definance and a way to say "different is good." He had a monotone-like voice and sometimes slurred his word (no he wasn't an alcoholic!), and he rode his bicycle everywhere with his suit and red socks. He didn't socialize a lot and seemed uncomfortable and shy much of the time. But every Christmas he would go to the student union and a bunch of us adults would come (and bring our children if we had any) and listen to him read How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Dr. Reid is pretty clearly an Asperger's adult I think. He reminds me so much of my son when he goes on and on and on about a topic while those around him are clearly in a totally different world.

The two people that identify themselves as Asperger's adults are:

1) Jerry on Boston Legal (he's been mentioned already)

2) a new female doctor on Grey's Anatomy. She is probably in her 40's with long dark brown hair. She was trying to decide if she wanted to join the staff but was not happy that people were not nice to each other and made fun of her. While she was waiting for a family to decide whether or not they would pull the plug on their daughter and needed some time together, the doctor was working herself into a meltdown because there were so many other people who were dying without donor organs. She just kept talking at them, spouting out facts about how people are dying because they are not giving their daughter's organs up. She was asked to leave the room because she was upsetting the family so.

I think Jerry has alot more than AS

Max Cohen from Darren Aronofsky's Pi.

L from Death Note

I disagree with the notion that people with AS lack theory of mind. I believe that I myself have theory in mind how the idea is presented to me. What house does have (obsessive interests, processing fine grain details, limited empathy, stereotyped and repetitive moments(bouncing the ball playing with a yo yo etc), difficulty transitioning to change (as seen in episodes where he had to live with wilson and cuddy taking over his office) Thats just my opinion.

Yes! I agree. (love that film).

Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory.

Any "lone wolf" type character, for example, Shadow the Hedgehog could be one. Havok from CNC Renegade as well.