Fictional characters with AS?

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Does anyone think Bocchi is autistic?

I think Meursault, the main character in The Stranger by Albert Camus, is autistic.

Roy Cropper from the British TV soap Coronation Street.

The boy Marcus in the movie About A boy seems to have some traits I think. Or maybe he's just raised that way by his weird mother?

I am watching this old sitcom called Two of a Kind starring Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen and I believe there Baby Sitter Carrie is on the spectrum. She almost reminds me of an early version of Robin from Stranger Things

Some young man, Kacper from the well known in my country, Polish TV show entitled "Colors of Happiness" Though my mom claims that recently Kacper "got more human"

Daryl and Merle Dixon on The Walking Dead

Gomer Pyle.

Plantagenet Palliser from the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope. Admittedly he's extremely wealthy, which is unusual for an Aspie, but it's only hereditary wealth. He's very stiff and unromantic and obsessed with bringing in decimal currency which he'll talk about till the cows come home. He hates any kind of liveliness in political speeches, which he sees as dishonest, and seeks to persuade only by the means of revealing real, dry information. If not for his wealth and high position in politics, he'd struggle socially.

Gussie Fink-Nottle from the Jeeves novels by P.G.Wodehouse. His special interest is newts, which he data-dumps on a lady as a substitute for romantic talk. Dislikes whisky - he says that it "tastes unpleasantly like medicine, burns the throat and leaves one thirsty." Very "shy."

Victor from well... "From"

It seems to me when any such portrayal is intended, it's always presented as the victim overcoming difficulties, which I resent as it is inaccurate and condescending, as is the label "high functioning autistic", as if this is unusual!

Good portrayals I've seen come from observation of a character type, without making connections with any "deffective" labels. Examples that come to mind are the main character in Amadeus (I don't know if it is an accurate portrayal of the real Mozart or not; I'm always on the look out for a biography, in order to study this) and Brian in Maeve Binchey's novells. Both come accross like real life autistics.

Did anyone here mention Connor from "Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage?"

He's clearly on the spectrum, as totally evidenced by the episode where his mother wants to feminize her husband's tire shop.

There's Saga Norén in The Bridge (2011 TV series) - the Scandinavian original, not the later one from the USA.