Films with Autistic/Aspie Characters which don't mention AS

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I've been stuck on the DVD releases of Rome - gotta say it has 2 possible aspies, one being for certain.

Gaius Octavian (later Augustus Caesar)
http://www.hbo.com/rome/cast/character/octavian.html

Boy Octavian is a very likely candidate to be an Aspie.

and Lucius Vorenus
http://www.hbo.com/rome/cast/character/ ... us_v2.html

Lucius is actually more rich than the cast page suggests. At issue are his struggles to duty and reconcile stablity during the fall of the Republic, he is in Caesar's Legion, but is bound to defend the Republic, inability to be social or adjust to civilian life, and inability to show love to his Wife who he has not seen while away at war. He's more controlled by rules and doing the right thing than anything else.

Truth?

I found Napoleon Dynamite to be rather boring and cliched.

In the sci-fi TV series: "Star Trek the Next Generation," there are two characters who display Aspergers' traits--the android: "Commander Data", and a member of the engineering crew: Lieutenant "Reginald Barclay" . Barclay is an intermittent character on the show. The
episode that introduces him is: "Hollow Pursuits".


Also I should add: all the characters in the comic strip: "Peanuts" by Charles Schulz display
elements of Asperger's Syndrome!

Nope, Forrest Gump did not have Asperger's. He was simply a person of sub-normal intelligence, easily what one might refer to as ... ret*d? Oh the horror!

These comments sum up how I feel.

I'm generally not keen on the idea of diagnosing fictional characters with AS, unless of course the creator says so. Usually, any similarities that fictional characters have to people with AS are just general "weird" or "geek" traits.

Me neither - usually.

There was just something about the whole Napoleon Dynamite thing though that hit a few nerves.

I'd agree that he still comes across as having stupidity as one of his traits. In fact, I think if you took the stupidity away, he'd be a lot less funny but probably a lot more accurate.

Dancer in the Dark
Breaking the Waves
Shine
Mumford

Oh, and the beautiful movie, "Proof" with Gwenyth Paltrow
I loved that movie

Well, sure, being all literal about it. But where's the fun in that?

Aut TV topic

Prison Break (the Michael Scofield character has Aspie traits)
Wired Science (Some of the hosts seem Aspie)
Nova Science Now( Neil Degrasse Tyson has some Aspie traits)
Indiana Jones/Han Solo (Getting a bit far fetched here!)

Well I'm sorry but wherever they hid the "fun" in the Napoleon Dynamite movie, I sure didn't find it.

Phoebe from "Friends" TV series

Phoebe to me is quite the opposite of "Aspie"

now Ross OTOH is really quite Aspie. Ross is slightly socially awkward, with fascinations with Paleontology and Star Wars. Very hyperfocused individual.

Phoebe and Joey are almost gender opposite sides of the same coin. Both very "on-the-surface", non-intellectuals with non-committal interests.

Phoebe sometimes takes things literally

Firefly and Serenity
anything with Summer Glau
Even the new Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicals it seems her character can be seen as an analogy, especially when she is interacting with others in the high school, for AS

Touché. Also, you know how we aspies are with being literal.