Gilbert "Gil" Grissom of csi is he an aspie

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Gilbert "Gil" Grissom of csi is he an aspie

Not officially. He is, or was partialy deaf though. But that doesnt account for his perservations and narrow interests.

I have heard this on nearly every online Aspie group I've been on.

And I don't even watch CSI.

Tim

I wonder if Kyle from South Park is AS too?

Oh wait. They're both fictional characters :l

I don't know about Kyle, but I think Butters is definitely an Aspie.

Tim

I change my stance, he totally is. He does remind me a bit of me

No ways is he an aspie - or if he is he is very mild. Lots of NTs are also loners and onlookers by choice or nature. He has no problem slotting into conversations or keeping up with what is going on around him. He may be lonely but that is not only a trait of AS. My older NT son is very like him and he is definitely not Aspergers

I never saw any indication that he was lonely. Was it implied? I dont feel loneliness myself. I may be blind to the implication of it in others.

They did indicate repeatedly that he had trouble with social convention and interaction. The character stated several times that he wasnt good at office politics.

Well, I "slot into conversations" a lot easier than I used to. As for keeping up? How is he supposed to fall behind? But yeah, just being a loner doesn't cut it.

Frankly, I haven't been interested enough in the show to give MY opinion about the character, I'm just curious.

Steve

He perservates over bugs.. and not just because of his job.

No. He's too friendly and social to be an aspie. No Aspie I know has social skills like that, even with the best therapy.

Not to mention it pops up from time to time on the IMDB board for CSI. Why is it so important that we decide if he is or isn't? For one thing, he's just a fictional character. They may be basing him on someone or a personality type, like a geeky type, but not necessarily an Aspie. Plus I think some of the personality of the person who is playing him shows through--he does a lot of meaningful facial expressions and eye gestures, and that doesn't seem especially Aspie to me.

I honestly think, though he's not good around strong emotions and certainly isn't a social person, that he's just a geeky, introverted NT. So he likes bugs--some NT's have some odd hobbies and likes. Some NT guys are uncomfortable around strong emotions. Someone said he shut down around strong emotions--I didn't see that. I don't even see his social skills as being particularly bad as I've heard some people say. It's more that he's an introvert who doesn't like to get too involved in people's lives (with one notable exception). He seems to know how to act in most social situations he's thrown into, and he seems natural, not like he learned it from a book. (Of course that might be the personality of the person playing him showing through.)

Also this character has evolved over the years, becoming more introverted. In the first few episodes he was quite social, making a party for a co-worker's daughter, for instance, even if he got a geeky gift for her. (Well, he's a scientist after all.)

It would be nice if a TV show had a positive AS character for once though, instead of that weird guy on Boston Legal, so if Grissom "came out" as being AS it'd be nice, but probably wouldn't happen.

Last edited by Norah_W on 14 May 2007, 2:53 am, edited 1 time in total.

Hey, then Mac Taylor on CSI: NY must be Aspie too! He said in last week's episode that he doesn't like to play police department politics! And he's kind of a private person. And he's quite stubborn at times. (I don't really think Mac is Aspie though.)

I agree! And he makes too much eye contact and communicates too much with his eyes.

I would not count out him being an aspie because of his eye contact, or awareness in a conversation. I am a 32 yr old aspie, and in this time, I have been able to drastically improve my converdation abilities and eye contact; almost to the point were people do not recognize there is something different about me until the 3rd or 4th time they meet me.

I seriously think his character may be been modeled as an aspie, in fact because my wife say he reminds her a bit of me. Also is was kind of alluded to the epiode "caged" from the second season