Undiagnosed aspies in books/movies

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Has anyone ever read a book or watched a movie and suddenly recognized a character as an undiagnosed Aspie or Autistic?

This happened to me when I was looking for a book for a young relative. The book Incident at Hawk's Hill is a "slightly fictionalized version of an incident which actually occurred" near Winnipeg in 1870. The story is about a boy who is adopted by a female badger when he is lost out on the prairie. Six-year-old Ben, is a shy boy who rarely talks to people although he seems to intuitively understand animals. He spends most of his time observing and emulating their behavior, to the consternation of his father who doesn't understand why Ben is "always going off by himself somewhere, all quiet and acting sort of frightened of us all the time, instead of joining in with the family when we do things".

Plenty of times. In fact, I collect them.

Let me see ... John Nash (pre-madness) in "A Beautiful Mind", but that one's a no-brainer.

Mycroft Holmes, that's another no-brainer.

Susan Calvin in I, Robot

Probably Rob Gordon from High Fidelity.

The guy who wrote the book has an autistic son and writes about autistic traits in all of his books, like say obsessions and other things. Rob Gordon has a lot of aspie traits.

(Nice topic, btw)

Enrique Borgos in Lois McMaster Bujold's "A Civil Campaign".

Lady Charlotte in Debroah Grabien's "Matty Groves"

Stanley, in Terry Prachett's "Going Postal."

and from several Terry Prachett novels, "Leonard of Quirm."

oh, and from TV - if any of you remember "Judging Amy," Amy's law clerk Donna. Made obvious in the episode where Donna's social-butterfly mother visits Any's house and whines all over Amy's mother about her difficult and incomprehensible daughter. Detailed description - total no-brainer.