Is house M.D. an aspie????????

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He seems to be a somewhat NT with aspie traits..

He is obcessed with other people in differnt ways...

He is self centereed in some ways and also likes to take cases that are quite differnt...

has an ego but likes to get combative to make a point or just to argue or prove something.

he likes drama but in a dark way... difficulty to communicate or admit certain things, maybe he can not feel for othr people or is dysfunctional in ways...

the actor that platys house is probally a NT but how the script is written, the aspie traits with the obsessiveness of the character with the eccentric... it is difficult to go and label the character as an aspie or a combination of something.... because as the charcter evolve from season to season, the scripting and acting is subjective to these elements thus could go being an aspie for a while and then something else, or contradicions evident..

I have large hands typing on a laptop, so give me some slack with the spelling. thanks.

I don't watch House regularly, but having read the posts here, I see two angles.

1. Not AS. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin. Someone who is truly a genius and not AS likely has non-Autism issues. Having lost his leg and wife and that leading to issues on the inside, I can see House not being AS but being very antisocial. His career is his life and all he has. Angry, he lashes out in how he treats people...putting himself in his own bubble where he feels safe because he never lets anyone get close enough to hurt him. Misery loves company, so House hurts others so it isn't just him.

2. Has AS. The biggest problem is the lack of consistent history. Likewise, I can see someone with AS ending efforts to be considerate of others rather than waste time and energy trying, failing and feeling bad over it, but House is so antisocial that it seems unlikely to be the result of AS. More so, finding out you have AS is not a license to act badly without apology. Knowing about it helps you to understand what the issue is and how to cope. It should cause others to be more understanding of what you do, but it's never a license to act badly.

House is more some kind of atypical depressive, a sickness the actor Hugh Laurie suffered from.
I think his antisocial strain is because he refuses to care about a lot ordinary things.

No, he's just House. He has... House Syndrome.

If some thing dont fits your categorys make a new one.

I have developed a habit of picking apart people's speech (such as noticing subtle lisps that no one else does until I point them out). I love the show House and don't watch it with the intent to find fault, but noticed a slip in at least one episode.

One episode had a elderly doctor as a patient. This patient wanted to die, however House woudn't allow it because he hadn't yet solved the case. As the patient awoke from a House induced coma, House says "Don't go towards the light". From what I have observed, most Americans pronounce the word toward without the w. Hugh Laurie most definitly emphasized the w, pronounced in to-wards.

Possibly, he cerainly has the right traids except for his observation skills, however my girlfriend says that I can say i can read her very well and i have been diagnosed with AS. My theory is he does have it, just because someone has AS does not mean he/she cannot read poeple, he/she just can;t read them on cue, which house also cannot do

Aspies in no way lack the ability to perceive raw data. We are not blind. We see all the body gestures that all humans see. What we lack, to various degrees is the instinct to understand them. We are not unable to learn.

In fact, if its true we are of average to high intelligence, we can learn more readily, and this seems to be the case in my life. I have learned to notice things that other people are not conscious about.

On the other hand, I cannot always emulate correctly. Some things need to be done instinctually.

The whole thing is complicated by the fact that he's a survivor of child abuse as well. Maybe some of his anti social behaviour is based on that.

Anyone in this country (UK) watching his current nervous breakdown unfold? The actor is playing it very well indeed.

I dont think he's in the spectrum at all. He's a lying, conniving, manipulative, self-centered s.o.b. that saves lives. I dont know of too many aspies that would intentionally break the rules as much as he does. Besides, if he were an Aspie, he'd know what tests to use without screwing up the patient, and the episodes would likely only last 15 min. This show is more of a medical Sherlock Holmes, as someone stated earlier . . . course that comparison isnt far off either since Holmes like to spike his tobacco with opium (House uses an opiate as a pain killer).

The House portrayed on the t.v. show gets 3 out of every 5 attempts at a cure wrong.

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I've only watched about 3-5 episodes but he reminds me a lot of myself. Don't know if autism plays a factor in this but I've been through a lot and feel like a curmudgeon like that guy. I don't need drugs but the happiest times of my life have been spent on xanax or marijuana similar to House's habitual painkillers or whatever he takes. It's just an escape but if it makes my quality of life better I don't see what is wrong with that. I go to extremes to make a point sometimes too if I know I'm right. Don't know if he has autism but his M-B personality type is INTJ or ENTJ, we have very similar personalities.

I picked this out, thus losing context, but I wanted to focus on just that one thing, "lack of consistent history".

I think this is a byproduct of being a TV character and it dooms to failure any attempt to diagnose characters with anything based on their character arcs and character traits.

The limitations of a character in a novel or a movie are whatever limitations the writer had. If a writer means for a particular character to have a particular condition, the limitation is what the writer knows about that condition. I think things go a little better when a writer has no specific condition in mind but is instead basing the character on somebody he's met in real life, allowing actual traits to come through rather than stereotypes pertaining to the condition.

Then there's the matter of the actor. However the writer writes the character, the actor will interpret it in his own way, adding character traits that he thinks fit even if they aren't specified in the script.

All of these limitations apply also to characters in TV shows with a huge additional limitation of long, long story arc that has the character evolving. A novel or a movie is self contained. The writer gives it a beginning, middle and end and envisions the characters as whole people moving through the story. But on a TV show, all that really gets written is a beginning and a bunch of middles. It's the rare show that actually has an ending written prior to shooting the pilot. So in reality, the characters are always evolving depending on how the show is received. If you watch a show from its first episode to its last, you can often see the characters slowly change as audience response to the show alters how the writers write it.

All this makes a firm and consistent diagnosis impossible. These aren't real people and writers will tweak the character traits to fit the needs of the plot or because the audience has responded to a character in a certain way (a response it is easy for writers to see now that all episode are discussed on boards). Character traits that may fit one diagnosis or another will ebb and flow according to plot (an ever changing plot that is constantly being written) and audience response rather than in accordance to how a real person would act.

" Loves video games & TV
Sees big picture and recognises patterns
Maverick, breaks conventions, no respect for rules or authority
Impulsive, addictive, depressive
Hyper-focuses on diagnosis
Likes own company but actually empathises very well
Articulate, intelligent with good sense of humour
Drives fast
Cynical "


i can relate to him a bit but i can't be sure since ive only seen about 5 episodes (only just started watching online) but ya i think so

More schizoid than anything.

I don't think that just because he is rude and has trouble making friends (no doubt, BECAUSE he is rude), that that makes him an Aspie. He is very narcissistic, IMO. I also think he has very good interpretive skills and constantly using and understanding sarcasm. Okay,so those two comments are pretty vague, I admit...they are just a few of many examples. I just don't see him as an aspie.