Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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I'd say Horatio Hornblower. Most of the novels I read so far spend almost half of the time on his sensory issues. Almost half on his fretting about social situations and whatever is left on seamanship and (brilliant) tactics.

I know she's already been mentioned, but the creator of the show "Bones" said he based her character on a friend with AS, however, they didn't want to state it on the show as they would be under too much pressure to get it "right". Although, he did say that he was thinking of doing a storyline in the new season where she explores the possibility of having AS.

Simon of Alvin and The Chipmunks.

Abed from Community is obviously written to have it, even if they don't want the responsibility of officially diagnosing him. Also Edward Scissorhands (although that can be interpretted as more allegorical than literal). Sherlock Holmes. I'm not just saying that because he's logical and what not. Robert Downey Jr. either intentionally or unintentionally played the character as an aspie in every way imaginable. Watch how he looks at other people without looking at their eyes. Flat expression, monotonic speech, no sense of personal space unless his own is being violated. Other than being a drug addict and an alchoholic, his entire pattern of behavior in the movie is of someone very bright, no doubt, but who also is clearly affected with asperger's.

Also I don't think it's a strech to see ASD qualities in River Tam. Yes she's supposed to have PTSD. But just like Jimmy from The Wizard who also is supposed to have PTSD, the writers seem to have ascribed them both with alot of autistic qualities.

Seymour from Ghost World. Very socially awkward, timid, quiet guy with an enormous vinyl collection and a ragtime/blues obsession.

Max Cohen from Pi. He's an intellectually gifted numerologist with poor social skills and obsessive-compulsive tendencies. The only person he appears to befriend in the entire film is a little girl who enjoys listening to him monologue about math formulas.

Haruko (the vespa girl) from FLCL. She's vexatious and strange. Also appears to lack empathy.

I have recently started watching The Big Bang Theory, and I think that Sheldon is a prime example of this type of discussion. I especially love how he is watching other to learn about social interactions.

Now that Marvel Comics has emerged from their "Dark Reign" story arcs, they're starting to be worth reading again (unless you actually like a world in which the heroes are controlled by a psychotic murderer who barely keeps his delusions in check long enough to talk to other people - I suppose someone must have enjoyed all that...). One of the new titles they've started is Avengers Academy, in which some of the old Avengers take over the job of training the six most powerful (and dangerous) kids from Osborn's old Initiative program. One of them, Finesse, may or may not have a diagnosis, but the page on which she was introduced seemed rather telling...

FINESSE: Don’t let his courtship displays unnerve you. It’s typical behavior for an alpha male entering new territory. Striker’s insecure, and he’s trying to assert dominance.

STRIKER: Excuse me, do you find that talking like a Discovery Channel narrator wins you a lot of friends? Because it’s actually extremely annoying.

(FINESSE demonstrates her ability by throwing a baton which bounces off of several surfaces, including teammate METTLE’s steel skull, before returning to her hand)

FINESSE: I find that my talents and physical attractiveness bring me adequate attention. Whether any are “true friends“, I’m not equipped to say. Nor do I care. I’m here to get better, and none of you are helping. Excuse me, I want to master another fighting style before the training session.

(as she walks off)

STRIKER: Freak. She's like Rain Man meets Ninja Assassin.

And a few pages later, when Speedball (who still suffers nightmares about the destruction of a small town in New Jersey, which was partly his fault) freaks out about one kid's temper and runs to speak to (read: yell at) Hank Pym in the next room:

FINESSE: ...And that's when he turned away. But he was talking about some big secret they're keeping from us.

METTLE: What, you're a lip reader?

FINESSE: Since I was five. I'm a polymath, Mettle. I acquire skills and knowledge at an accelerated rate. I drink them in. I graduated MIT at fourteen. I was in training for the Olympics when Osborn found me. I don't make mistakes. And I know what I saw.

STRIKER: Well, there's one way to find out. They'll have files on us, right? Our "permanent records"? Everyone's away tonight except Pym, and he's locked up in his lab making sweet love to test tubes. We'll hack the system.

REPTIL: I'm sorry, did MacGyver join up and I missed it? This is the Avengers. They have security. Who here is an expert at advanced computer programming and counter-espionage??

(FINESSE raises her hand)

Never said she was. I even mentioned she had PTSD. My point was that sometimes writers of fictional characters sometimes insert ASD qualities in some charaters whether or not it's intentional. Mabe PTSD can sometimes look like some aspects of autism. Mabe a writer might take creative liberties on a character and insert behaviors that are more common to a different disorder. She does sometimes act like a person with an ASD, even though she's not supposed to be. P.S. This thread is mostly for entertainment. Obviously no fictional characters can have a real diagnosis. Even characters that are really supposed to have it are going to be a flawed representation to some degree since they're not real people.

Oh yes, and Abed in indeed awesome. Currently he's my favorite sitcom character. I thought it was dumb how offended people got over the pilot, too. Some people are way too sensitive for comedy.

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the tourist in the 1994 movie Speed.