Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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Roderick in Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music In The World.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I forgot Faraday from Lost. Not sure why, but he just seems super aspie (not just in an akward geeky way either). There are plenty of smart and even geeky or unstable characters on that show. But Farady seems the most like an aspie, to me. Also that same actor had a character in the movie Solaris that was almost exactly the same as Faraday. Which makes me wonder if the actor was really even playing a character at all.

Sorry if someone has mentioned her before, but

SCARLETT O'HARA!

She's impatient, defiant, very self-centered, and often has temper tantrums that resulted in the slapping of four people.

Yet she seems very intelligent and manipulative.

Higher-functioning, for sure, but definitely some Aspergian traits there.

The character played by Hilary Swank in the movie Freedom Writers.

I can't remember if I posted this already - if I did, well maybe it's worth restating.
Roderick, aka Gilermo the Great, from The Saddest Music In The World.
He had been obsessed with his music to the point of rejecting his wife and son. When his son dies, and his wife leaves him, they become his new obsession. He even carried his son's preserved heart with him everywhere he goes.
Serbia's role in starting the First World War is never far from Roderick's thoughts.
He holds an obessive grudge against his brother.
Though a Canadian, he had never felt at home anywhere, till he came to Serbia.
Bright lights, smells, and certain textures of clothing are painfully disturbing to him, to the point of making him fly into fits of anger.
Extreme emotional states can cause him to collapse into unconciousness.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I always thought that Haruhi Suzumiya from TMoHS showed aspie-like symptoms. I mean if you think about it, she had friends but yet she never really understood them. Often times she would have times when she would isolate herself if she was upset. She also had strange interests that everyone else didn't seem fitting for her or didn't believe. People thought she was strange too.

In fact, I relate myself to her because I feel somewhat like her. I try to be like everyone else but try to help them understand my interests as well. Sometimes its hard though because people consider you weird.

Chuckie, Dill, Tommy's dad and Chuckie's dad from Rugrats
Wind Whistler, Kimono and Minty from My Little Pony
Cale from Titan A.E.
Ramona from the Beverely Cleary series
Fudge from the Judy Bloom series
Buster, D.W. and Carl Brain from Arthur
Liam from Dinosaur Squad (No seriously, he has a DX.)
Timon from The Lion King (I don't like DXing animal characters unless they are overly anthromorphized but Timon is a poster child)
Zim, Dib, Gaz and Professor Membrane from Invader Zim
Charolette and Vendetta from Making Fiends
Serena/Ugasi from Sailor Moon

Willy Wonka

Ebeneezer Scrooge comes to mind. He hated people and Christmas and he had an obsession, and that obsession happened to be money.

I haven't read all the pages (yet?) so i might be repeating some.
By the way Cockney, good catch on Scrooge.
I'll also consider Wonka a good catch, but only the old one (gene wilder not jonny depp)
Holden Caulfield fromCatcher in the Rye was mentioned by someone. I dunno about him, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with him except for lack of a good moral guide in life.

Obvious:
Adam, from the movie Adam.

Possible Aspies:
Matthew Grey Grubler's character on Criminal Minds
Jonny Depp's character in the movie "Benny and Joon"
Robin Williams in 'One Hour Photo"
(yeah, controversial - he took things a bit too far, but he was obsessed with photographic excellence, for the intricacies of pos minilab work, knew every client and their personal data by rote, was most upset by the 'breaking of the rules" which happened to [spoiler] relationship - watch closely the little boy's interactions with him. There are clues in the views they have of each other. The exact style of his revenge on his boss (very interest-centric). Knew exactly what photo the redhead came from. And the punchline at the end - the photos that Williams was most interested in were?)

Mulder from the X Files
There's this blonde dude with long hair and glasses who seems VERY aspieish but I can't remember his name.

Avon from the old sci-fi series Blake's 7.
Scheming, very private, has a special sense of humour, always takes logical point of view, relates better to machines than to people, facial expression often unadequate to situation (famous for his 'smile at the face of death' and being stone-faced when happy), is defiant and oppositional to authority but fails when has to take leadership, has some weird mannerisms, dresses in a decidedly odd way.
This is only what springs to mind immediately though. Oh, also suffers from insomnia.