Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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April Johnson from the British movie Dustbin Baby, she doesn't like being touched, rarely makes eye contact, carried around paper dolls with her everywhere, occasionally throws tantrums.

The maid Amelia Bedelia from the children book series of the same name. She takes EVERYTHING literally, and she cause lots of problems for her employer's, but she is always redeemed by her exceptional baking skills.

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There's a new series called 'The Fades', on BBC3, which I've been enjoying. The central character's best friend, Mac, appears to be an Aspie (in my opinion).

+1 for Twilight Sparkle. She's obvious aspie, to me at least.

Conseil, from 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea?

In favor - his obsession with taxonomy/classification; hyper-methodic and organized

Against - he remains very "cold" and self-controlled in stressful and danger situations

Possibly Boo Radley from To Kill a Mockingbird, aka the best piece of classical literature that is forced down children's throats at school. He is a quiet social recluse, he means well, but the people are afraid of him, and in the past he was an intelligent student, but he got into legal trouble after he stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. Its obvious that he is not mentally normal, but it is never explicitly said what is wrong with.

I don't think anyone has mentioned Maurice Moss from the IT Crowd yet... His charecter pretty much takes every single stereotype...

http://www.theitcrowd.co.uk/characters/moss.htm

You'd think someone might have mentioned him, wouldn't you.

Mark Corrigan from Peep Show. I swear I have his thought patterns.

She's supposed to teach kids about idioms and figures of speech. Saying that sh has Asperger's is missing the point.

I dunno,I just always got the idea that he was only a nerdy guy with low self confidence/self esteem rather than being an aspie.
Remember that when he Marty returned at the end of the first movie George Mcfly was very confident and successful.And he didn't seem socially awkward in the slightest anymore either.

I disagree, the very fact he has a job, a gf and friends implies some level of social skills - not wholly incompatible with AS, of course, but the point is he displays no interest whatsoever in friends, a gf, etc - to get these things with minimal or no motivation implies not just decent social skills, but excellent ones. His attitude during the trial can be interpreted as suicide by proxy - he's telling the truth, but it's a deliberate choice rather than the result of being brutally honest. Unlike most aspies, he doesn't seem to care about anyone at all, including himself.


Teresa from J.A. Lindqvist's Little Star. She's obsessive, systematic and had difficulties as a child with make-believe, as well as preferring solitary activities to playing with others. She's an outsider and is generally socially clueless, esp. when interacting with groups of her peers, esp. parties; finds online interaction easiest. There are also no obvious alternative explanations, as she had a normal childhood and so on. But let's just say she's most certainly not a good role-model for an aspie (or anyone else).

Having been at home all day for the past few weeks due to exams being over, and not being bothered to change the channel, it was on Disney Channel so I saw quite a bit of Wizards of Waverly Place, and from that, I definitely think Zeke Beekerman (Justin's friend) is an Aspie. He just seems very Aspie to me. Socially awkward, sometimes takes things literally, etc.

I know this probably completely missing the point, but Fi from Skyward Sword. She is even more hyperlogical, formal, verbose, pedantic, and single mindedly devoted than the robots. Also there is another character that may the same thing as she is, and he has a completely different personality.

My all time favorite character from my all time favorite show:

Homer Simpson. He doesn't get anything.

"What shall we have for dinner?"
"Steak."
"MmmmmmmMoneys' too tight for steak."
"Steak."

"I can't believe Homer ruined another family picnic."
"Everybody pees in the pool."
"NOT from the diving board Homer!"

"Really? Not married, and bicycling, two abrest?"
"I wish. We were bicycling to a lake."

D.W. and Buster from Arthur. I know they made a new character to teach about Asperger's, but I always wished they would have used an exhisting character, Buster just screams as to me. Espically his obsession with aliens. D.W.'s obsession with Mary Moo Cow and her snowball and how Arthur is always saying she is even weirder than other little kids, make me think they could have went ahead and used her instead of going through all the trouble of making up a new character who seems more LFA than AS.


Twlight Sparkle from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.