Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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Cale from Titan A.E.
Ramona Quimby from the Beverly Cleary series
Fudge from the Judy Bloom series
Buster and D.W. from Arthur
Chuckie, Dill and Tommy's dad from Rugrats
Gooz from Paws & Tales
Marvin from Daddy Daycare
Dib, Gaz, Zim and Professor Membrane from Invader Zim
Serena/Usagi from Sailor Moon
Wind Whistler from My Little Pony

Maybe Eddie malvin from Punky brewster season 1. maybe he's just a nerd. not sure.

Commented on the four twice.

Zim has CLASSIC Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The Irkan Armada in general is pretty poor at the whole galactic-dominance thing (else they never would have needed a treaty with the Planetjackers), and Zim is far worse than the average - he wasn't sent to Earth to take it over for the Armada, he was sent there because it was off the edge of their maps and they were hoping he'd get lost and die. It was sheer luck that Zim happened across an inhabited planet at all. Yet he is convinced that he is a brilliant tactician, the greatest of his race at domination, and the apple of the Almighty Tallest's eyes, and that his failures so far are only due to his being outmaneuvered by his arch-enemy - an eight-year-old boy that everyone else laughs at. Zim cannot admit that he has any faults whatsoever, nor that he has ever made a mistake; everything that goes wrong is someone else's fault. As I said, classic NPD.

Gaz suffers from being the Only Sane Man (caution: TVTropes link) in a world of total incompetence.

Dr. Membrane seems to be terribly insecure - he needs constant reassurance that his is the greatest intellect EVER, as seen especially in one episode in which he's about to unveil his machine that will provide the entire world with unlimited free energy forever - but when the typical Zim/Dib interactions disrupt the proceedings at the unveiling, Dr. Membrane angrily announces that if the world can't be mature enough to sit still during his speech, they can't have his machine after all, and stomps off.

I'll grant that Dib seems to have some AS traits...

After watching the series more closely, I don't think House is autistic at all.

If the following have been mentioned, please forgive me...

I think Marty McFly's father in Back to the Future has some definite traits (like preferring to go home to catch his favourite science program instead of asking the love of his life to the school dance).

Also, maybe C3PO from Star Wars. If robots could have AS.

I don't think Hermione has Asperger's, she's pretty emotionally attuned. Just bossy. Also, you forgot Lenard from Big Bang Theory, I don't think he has it either. He seems to be the social anchor and NT sounding-board for the madness the other 3 fling around the place. Notice how he's always the one bringing up social concerns and calling out the others on their weird behaviour!

I thought Alice Tinker too, to begin with. But after a while I noticed she actually has such good emotional intelligence that she can effectively manipulate the emotions of others, like when she persuades Geraldine to eat Christmas lunch at her house even though the latter had already eaten twice that day. Basically she makes her feel guilty by using subtle and indirect tactics of persuasion.

Has anyone seen The Mirror Has Two Faces with Barbra Streisand and Jeff Bridges? His character, Gregory Larkin, Professor of Mathematics, is a definite Autie I'd say.

And one more, how about Allan from Two and a Half Men?

Flosses each tooth to a count of 5 and spoons his girlfriend on each side the same way.

Agreed on both points. I don't think that Hermione is on the spectrum too. But then there is a certain baseline level of ASD traits in the general population which might show up more clearly in certain people than in others.
Also, Leonard. I think already said that I think that his 'nerdiness' - for a want of better word - is a product of nurture rather than nature.

ah well i just mentionned it in the media representation section, but: that new little dr masters on house's team is an aspie pretty sure they will let us know officially soon, i could feel she was 2 inches away from saying it herself. saw that episode? it's called "office politics"of all titles
she's typical of an aspie female btw , for guys who still wonder how we can be awkward and cute and get a lot of negative attention at the same time...

Trouble is WOG is the the absoltue athority

Eugene Jones from Torchwood. Yes, that's right, Random Shoes. About the only thing about this episode.

'That was the night that Dad went away, but it was OK because I had the (alien) eye and the possibility of an alien encounter.
I worked out the possible provenance, the life form and the galaxy, planetary escape velocities, launch windows, necessary fuel capacities, and then I waited'.
'Nuff said.

And, perhaps, Eugene's little brother Terry too.

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Flosses at the same time each day, and gets annoyed if prevented? Can't sleep unless spooning? Those might be indicative of AS.

Flossing each tooth to a specific count, and insisting on spooning both sides of his girlfriend, is clinically-significant OCD. Boy needs help.

I always looked forward to seeing Kramer. You have a point here; very much a social genius. Not sure about AS, but one of a kind

I have to go with Walter Mitty; he had the "running dialogue" with himself, and turned any sound he heard into a mental landscape. I always loved that character.

Perhaps one could also argue Ford Prefect as being a model of AS...a bit disregarding of Earth's population's mannerisms, very detached. He was an alien, but how many folks have felt as if they were walking in a dream on a different planet? Life seems more bearable with it's treated with a bit of detachment (seems fair to me as a counterreaction to NT's intense caring about useless minutiae).

Sometimes I think that Tonks from Harry Potter might be a hidden Aspie or an individual with clustered autistic traits. I mean the character from the book, not what we saw in the films.
Proofs: looks a bit weird even in the wisarding world. Chose a profession that was very male-dominated from all I've read. Disliked her very feminine name and chose the gender-neutral family name instead. I do remember her only wearing torn jeans and a variety of garish T-shirts, presumably the only thing changing about her for special occasions is the colour of her hair. Because the latter does not require any effort from her, I suppose.
Definitely prefers company of people older than her to coimpany of peers (has been Moody's protégée, fell in love with a man more than 20 years older than her (and it doesn't seem like she has been very much out and about before that, I presume she has been too much interested in her own work to care about boys); when in distress, turns to Molly Weasley instead of friends). If cannot be with the very few she prefers, she'd rather be alone.
Motorics is disordered: 'I am dead clumsy'.
Speaks out things that may make others uncomfortable and may blurt out family details without anybody asking her. 'My dad is a right old slob'. Not a very nice thing to say about one's father, presumably, especially to people you've only seen for the first time before 5 minutes or so, even if it is the holy truth. Might have some executive disfunction as she admits she's horrible with basic household spells and she's not exactly a teenager when we meet her.
Her language and expression is a bit immature too.
Also, I think that her falling in love with Lupin qualifies as 'obsession'. She left her own month-old baby so she could look for her husband, for God's sake.

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