What famous character / personality do you identify with?

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Someone from History / Art / Culture / Stories / Cartoons / Music / Books / Politics / Science whatever.

Please do tell us why...

I'm still thinking about mine, so I'll post it later.

a cross between Luna Lovegood and Hermione Granger

Hermione because she is a know it all Luna Lovegood because she is spacey

After giving it some thought, I'd have to say... Simon from Gurren Lagann. We're both fearful and easily discouraged, but we can pull through and be courageous in dire situations. Plus, we both have someone in our families whom we look up to and rely on for emotional support (in Simon's case, it's his "soul brother" Kamina, in my case it's my mom).

Butters from Southpark, Amelia Bedilia, Ralph Wiggam and Gelsomina from La Strada..

Clueless...childlike..etc...

I've always identified a lot with Jacques Mayol. not sure why, I guess I've just always admired how he pursued this one obsession that he had and the theory that he wrote about in his book (The Dolphin Within Man). also I identify with the fact that he felt the most happy when diving with the dolphins and didn't care much for people and worldly things.

also- the Dalai Lama; he's really an amazing person, I agree with everything he's ever said. he's also very much into sciences and always wants to know how everything works, just like myself. I also identify a lot with the fact that he is constantly laughing and cracking jokes and often says things that are somehow inappropriate but he doesn't seem to care how people perceive him.

as far as fictional characters go- definately Grisom from CSI and Bones from Bones, I guess that doesn't need to be explained ;p

I might think of some more later.

Field marshall Erwin Rommel, Vlad the impaler

Piglet (Winnie the Pooh), Homer Simpson, Cosmo (The Fairly OddParents), Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants) and SpongeBob.

Reginald Barclay from Star Trek...

ok...so there are a few:

simone weil - philosopher and oddball.

w b yeats - for his mysticism and his incredible poetry that to this day gives me goosebumps.

krishnamurti -because he so wisely suggested to people to get off the guru junket trail and to look within. very cool. and because he really did walk the walk - when annie besant and the theosophists tried to set him up as the next Messiah, he walked away from it all.

Goya because he developed from being a people-pleasing society painter to an artist who transformed the way we paint and look at art. He is the daddy of Modernism.

Vaughan Williams - because his pieces soar

Wednesday Addams - well...if you are a girl with AS it is obvious.
Lisa Simpson - ditto above.

Ian Fairweather - reclusive Australian painter who lived alone in the bush and painted what was real to him.he also ignored the machinations of the art scene and saw it for what it was. (he was very aspie'ish actually.)

Gerard Manley Hopkins - because his poetry is genius and encompasses all the senses (now he MUST have had sensory integration issues, jusdging from his writings.)

Dostoyevsky

Dante - because the Divine Comedy which i have read a number of times still blows my mind every time i read it.


the list goes on.....

Sid the Rat from 'Flushed Away'. :O)

I just remembered another one that I've been worshiping since childhood- Herodotus. I thought his "Histories" were amazing, mostly because he had this totally impartial attitude- I remember he would always describe the beliefs of local people in some uncivilised countries and he always stressed that although none of it can be proven, it is what the locals believe and so on. he was completely unbiased, rational and also a great observer of people.

I also love the fact that he just walked the Earth and wrote about the strange ways of humans, which is also what I'd like to do one day.

and one more- Bronislaw Malinowski, the pioneer anthropologist.

I'm not sure exactly who mine would be. It's really hard to decipher between who I relate to versus who I would like to be more like as I tend to find characters (fictional or real) to look up to rather than like just because we relate. But since I'm so me, I've yet to see or meet a real person that I totally relate to. Maybe that means I'd be an awesome fictional character.

Of all things I can think of, but I think I relate well to the Becky character in the Roseanne episodes. No matter how good my grades were or how well I cleaned the house growing up, my sister still got all the attention from my parents. It just always felt like my sister didn't have to do anything and get their approval, but I, who did everything, was never good enough. Every idea I had was stupid and ignored, yet every idea my sister had was accepted with open arms and tons of support.

I relate most, now I think about it, to Catwoman, especially the Halle Berry one. I just often feel caged and hate that feeling. I hate society imposed limitations. Like catwoman, I'm often misunderstood by society, especially when it comes to my intentions. I'm better than most with hand to hand combat, but when you get into politics, I suck. I always get fooled by the backstabbing chic who pretends to be a victim. Plus, I'm often desired by men, even your dog owning type, and I have used that to my advantage. I also relate to cats in general. I have the same rule as cats, if my head fits, the rest of the body will follow. My motivations are simple...food (and often cigarettes, but you know if a cat smoked, it would smoke a pack a day). I do have a lot of kitty pride. Cats are beautiful, flexible, highly intuitive, creative problem solvers. Independent. Cats are very independent. They domesticated themselves whereas the dog was domesticated by man. I love to sleep too and being a mom, all my sleep is cat naps. I also love being petted. I'm such the sucker for back rubs. Cats can also be clumsy, but have their moments of grace. As silly as it sounds, if you ever swatted at that fuzzy ball on top the spring, oh, it can be a lot of fun. Once I started to try to get my cat to play with one of those, and she had no interest in it. So I started to play with it, and she started to show a little interest, but before I knew it, I was actually playing with it and wouldn't let her join in. Yeah, the cool thing about pet cats is that you get to be the alpha cat as the owner. Also, I tend to make the dogs bark. Sometimes it's kinda fun, but most of the time, it's really annoying and frustrating to get a bunch of people to act like stupid dogs barking for no reason or to chase you for no reason just because you are there.

I don't have a cat anymore because i have kids, and yes they are better, but there is a stray I would love to take in but my husband won't allow it (like that would stop me) but also, his sister is staying with us to help me out with the kids (since my own family is incapable of it), and she's got an asthmatic allergy to cats. I did name him Rick James, or RJ, and I do feed him because he's been killing mice around the apartment complex. He did kill this bird, and everybody kicked the bird down to my area, and I know it's because they hate the fact that I leave food out for the strays. You know that all these cat hating males would jump all over Halle Berry or Michelle Pfeifer (however you spell their names) in her catwoman costume. It's funny too, men that I meet who hate cats seem to love all the cat like aspects of me. They say us women make no sense. Please.

I actually started a thread about this, awhile back. But I´ll mention it again, for those who didn´t read it. I discovered, in young adulthood, that I related a lot to Vincent Van Gogh. At the time, I knew nothing about, nor had ever heard of Asperger´s Syndrome. As a young adult, struggling to "find myself", I noticed that Vincent and I had many personality traits in common, as well as similar life challenges; (and we´re both involved in the arts). It is now recognized that Vincent was likely on the spectrum, probably AS. He was my special interest for a time, and it was then that I began to accept many aspects of myself which I had repressed before. My interest in him enabled me to actually like myself better.

Oh, someone mentioned Butters from South Park. I also really like that character. I think when I was a child, I was the female version of Butters.

Nikola Tesla (personality wise I'm similar, however different, and find designing things for future inventions a good habit), The Brain (off Pinky and the Brain, a late 1990s cartoon show, because he was a genius who schemed on taking over the world with his half-witted insane sidekick (generally refers to anybody I know)), Franklin Roosevelt (because he overcame challenges to become debateably the greatest president in US history, and I want to become president, and need to overcome challenges myself), Theodore Roosevelt (overcame challenges, became president, brought us out of virtual dark age), Abraham Lincoln (overcame challenges, great man, brought the country together), well, all of the presidents are what I want to do if I were president and yes I do identify with them, but more on a temporal level.

THE MAJOR IDENTIFIER IS THE FOLLOWING: my grandfather, called Pawpaw, whom I am a near clone of personality wise for some odd reason. Anyway, my family is a big identifier for me. But that's not the major question, is it?

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